Indigenous discourses on knowledge and development in Africa (Book Review)

Abstract

Edward Shizha and Ali A. Abdi stress in their introduction to this edited volume that ‘Africa has to rethink and re-engage development partners on its own terms’ (p. 5). Much has been written on the need to rethink the notion of development, yet it is a far greater challenge to write what that particular ‘African’ perspective entails. My review explores to what extent the authors manage to live up to their ambitious promise to present ‘an African indigenous discourse-centred approach to expanded notations of knowledge, education, political governance, social development and overall prospects of meaning making and acting on those meanings in ways that can finally benefit the extensively margi..