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Title
African perspectives on poverty, indigenous knowledge systems, and innovation / Oliver Mtapuri, editor.
ISBN
9789811958564 (electronic bk.)
9811958564 (electronic bk.)
9789811958557
9811958556
Published
Singapore : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (236 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-981-19-5856-4 doi
Call Number
GN476
Dewey Decimal Classification
500.89
Summary
This book examines the connections between poverty and innovation in Africa. Through case studies and theorizations from a distinctly African perspective, it stands in contrast to current theoretical works in the field, which remain very much rooted in Western-orientated thinking. The book investigates the application of methodologies which explain numerous African contexts in connection with issues of poverty and inequality. It reflects on comparative practices and praxes on the African continent, including commonplace traditions and practices in alleviating poverty, taken against a background of the failure of current prescriptions for poverty alleviation, such as the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP). There is a dire need for new practical perspectives which move Africa forward using its indigenous knowledge. Owing to a general lack of recorded African theories and methodologies on poverty, inequality and innovation, this book represents a pioneering corpus of African knowledge addressing poverty and inequality through local innovations. Adopting a transdisciplinary approach, it is relevant to students and scholars in development studies and economics, African studies, social studies, political history and political economy, climate studies, anthropology and geography.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 1, 2022).
Introduction. Tackling poverty and inequality
Part 1 Povery and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Chapter 1. Onomastic and Conceptual Pathologisation of African Culture as a Creation and Perpetuation of African Poverty in Zimbabwe
Cha.pter 2. Empirecrafting or Statecrafting Africa? Beyond Banal "Traditional" Witchery and Towards Rebuilding the Moral Economy
Chapter 3. Impoverishment as a Constraint to Africas Social Development
Chapter 4. Indigenous Knowledge and Poverty Alleviation in Contemporary Zimbabwe
Chapter 5. The Efficacy of Traditional Institutions in the Conservation of Sacred Heritage Resources in Zimbabwe.
