Development Naivety and Emergent Insecurities in a Monopolised World

It is common knowledge that development without security is like a
runaway horse. Yet, development in Africa has been plagued by
insecurities since the extractive periods of slave trade and
colonialism. In spite of political independence and the euphoria of
sovereignty as states, Africa has failed to address insecurity, which
continues to loom large and to threaten aspirations towards truly
inclusive and sustainable development. A consequence has been Africa’s
development naivety vis-à-vis the monopolisation of development by the
predatory elite actors of the global North and their local facilitators.
To salvage the continent from such predation and the insecurities
engendered requires novel and innovative imagination and praxis. This
book draws from both the haunted landscapes and bitter memories of past
exploitations and from the feeding of the insatiable North with African
resources and humanity. It brings together essays by a concerned
generation of scholars driven by the urgent need for radical
decolonisation of African development and its legacies of insecurities.
It is handy to students and practitioners in economics, policy studies,
political science, development studies, global and African studies.