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Good Governance and Rural Development in Africa: Finding the Missing Link
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Adejumo-Ayibiowu, Oluwakemi Damola |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Abstract | This chapter presents African indigenous knowledge as the missing link in achieving good governance and rural development in Africa. The failure of rural development projects in Africa has mostly been attributed to weak institutions and bad governance. Consequently, good governance has become the cornerstone of donors' development cooperation in Africa since the 1990s. While it is true that African public institutions may be weak, the analysis shows that the West contributed to this problem through European colonization of the continent as well as the imposition of Eurocentric onesize-fit-all reforms of the World Bank on indebted African countries. The chapter argues that to improve governance and rural development in Africa, there are wellestablished and effective cultural indigenous governance systems in the continent from which we can learn. |
| Starting Page | 67 |
| Ending Page | 93 |
| Page Count | 27 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.4018/978-1-7998-2306-3.ch004 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=248345&ptid=236139&t=good+governance+and+rural+development+in+africa:+finding+the+missing+link |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
