Afrocentric Approaches to Community Development in the 21st Century

Edited By: Ndwakhulu Tshishonga, Eve D. Mafema

£89.99

This book departs from western prescripts to shed light on tested Afrocentric methods for community development. It draws lessons from African models of communal unity to show how governments can enhance their development models to reduce poverty and unemployment.

This collection of chapters takes a departure from western prescripts to community development. It sheds light on adopting tested and tried Afrocentric methods to community…

This collection of chapters takes a departure from western prescripts to community development. It sheds light on adopting tested and tried Afrocentric methods to community development. The book draws lessons from African methods of communal unity for the common good. It gives details of African models of community development and how they were used before modernisation. The book also provides an overview of how these models are essential for governments to incorporate them into their development models.
The importance of this book thus lies in the fact that it focuses on traditional African models of community development to enhance government-led models. Afrocentric theories/models are applied in the hope that policymakers, academics and practitioners will find arguments and conclusions of the book useful for better policy formulation to reduce poverty and unemployment.

Ndwakhulu Tshishonga is a lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has written more than 70 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. He has edited a book on Interfacing Traditional and Modern Leadership in South Africa Towards a 3rd Decade of Democratic Rule, published in 2024.

Eve D. Mafema is an academic writer, researcher and independent consultant specialising on gender and development in both the UK and South Africa. She has written over 20 peer reviewed papers and book chapters on gender and development, and youth and local government.

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