Interrogating "African Development" and the Diasporan Reality

The obituary has been written if not already read (see also Sachs, 1992). The valorization of international development is today justifiably replaced with the pillorization of socalled development. In fact, it does not require any great sense of intellectual imagination to accede that international development as we' have all come to know and understand has met with disappointment in Africa. Today, the euphoria of international development has worn thin in the minds of many local peoples. This is, in part, because so-called development has come at a high human, ecological, political, and ethical cost to Africans. The development agenda has literally put to shame the assumption of innocence. Development, with an emphasis on materialization/materialism, has been uneven, uncertain, and inequitable. Any economic gains have been spurious at best and disproportionately channeled to the already wealthy segments of society. What has been institutionalized as development has actually been an economic boom to transnational corporate capital interests in Africa. Perhaps, what is disturbing is that meanwhile, the social, spiritual, emotional, and psychological aspects of development remain largely unaddressed

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