Except-Africa: Remaking Development, Rethinking Power by Emery Roe

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It is a commonplace that the problems of African rural development are becoming increasingly complex - that is, they have grown more numerous, interrelated, and varied. This complexity has generated a multitude of development scenarios. Among these is the doomsday scenario, applied to every nation on the continent, best captured in the phrase "Everything works ... except in Africa." Emery Roe argues that crisis scenarios generated by an expert (usually non-African) elite are self-serving and counterproductive. Except-Africa takes up the challenge of devising development scenarios that do justice to the continent's variegated reality.

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Argues that crisis scenarios regarding African rural development, usually generated by non-Africans, are self-serving and counterproductive. Challenges these development narratives and provides alternate scenarios surrounding sub-Saharan pastoralism, expatriate advising, and government budgeting. Offers a case study on government reform in Zimbabwe, and asks what a politics of complexity would look like in Africa if complexity were seriously engaged. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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