Africa in the Age of Globalisation: Perceptions, Misperceptions and Realities

This is a collection of bold and visionary scholarship that reveals an insightful exposition of re-visioning African development from African perspectives. It provides educators, policy makers, social workers, non-governmental agencies, and development agencies with an interdisciplinary conceptual base that can effectively guide them in planning and implementing programs for socio-economic development in Africa. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on continental trends on various subjects and concerns of paramount importance to globalisation and development in Africa (politics, democracy, education, gender, technology, global relationships and the role of non-governmental organisations). The authors challenge the familiar paradigms in order to show how imperfectly, if at all, assumptions about globalisation and development theories have failed in their depictions and applications to Africa. The scholars in this volume both inform and advocate for a re-visioning of perceptions on Africa and how it navigates global processes.

About the Author

Professor Edward Shizha is a sociologist in education and teaches courses in contemporary studies and youth and children’s studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford in Canada. His academic and research interests are in Africanisation of education in Africa, contemporary educational problems, globalization, post-colonialism, and indigenous knowledges. He has authored, co-authored and co-edited 6 books and has several peer-reviewed journal articles to his credit. Professor Lamine Diallo is a sociologist who is involved in community development research in Canada and Africa. He is a founding member of the Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa at Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford in Canada. His teaching and research is in the areas of power, organizational leadership governance and democratization with a special focus on Africa. Prof. Diallo has been involved in several international development projects in the African continent including Benin, Senegal, Congo and Guinee.