Rethinking Development
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From the single party model to "representative democracy", form structural adjustment policies to reforms on enhancing "competitiveness" and improving the "business environment", almost all fashionable political and economic models have been experimented on the African continent. Yet, they all clearly failed, as attested by the majority of socio-economic indicators in the areas of nutrition, health, education, employment, etc. This is the perspective adopted by Ndongo Samba Sylla, which compiles contributions of experts on Africa's development issues. Can democracy help to achieve the changes that Africans aspire to? How can Africa break with neo-colonial practices that prevent its political, economic and cultural emancipation? What role is there for women in these processes? Rethinking Development attempts to provide answers to these essential questions.
About this Author
Dr. Ndongo Samba Sylla is a Development Economist and Programme and Research Officer at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundations Office for West Africa. He coordinated the publication of the book Redecouvrir Sankara. Martyer de la liberte [Redescovering Sankara. Freedom Martyr] (Exchange & Dialongue 2012) and is the author of Le scandale du commerce equitable. Le marketing de la pauvrete au service des riches (Harmattan Senegal, 2013), subsequently published in English as The Fair Trade Scandal. Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich (Pluto Press and Ohio University Press, 2014). His recent research focused on the history of the word "Democracy".
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