This open access edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of social scientists and cultural experts to investigate the concept of transformative development. Contributors discuss the transformative development vision with a focus on the social sciences and cultural studies. In doing so, they explore new development paradigms for Africa in the context of Covid-19, the role of myths in the psychological transformation of Africa, the correlation between discourses on cultures in Africa and the development of the continent, interactions between Indigenous knowledge and Western innovations, and new movements in the arts, handicrafts, and even postmodern Afropop.
Going beyond traditional emphases on economic and industrial progress, the authors gathered here ultimately develop new analytical frameworks that align with African realities and priorities in order to promote the decolonisation of the African minds, which remains a work in progress.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Editors’ Preface
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND A TRANSFORMATIVE DEVELOPMENT VISION
Introduction
Alain Cyr Pangop Kameni, David Simo, Esaïe Djomo, Godfrey B. Tangwa and Aloysius Ngefac
A transformative development vision for postcolonial Africa: Focus on Social Sciences and Cultural Studies
Aloysius Ngefac
PART TWO: VOICES OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND HUMANITIES EXPERTS
Glimpses of transversal research in African Studies: a new roadmap for postcolonial African nations
Alain Cyr Pangop Kameni
Towards a new paradigm for African development in the context of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Godfrey B. Tangwa
The Pragmatics of myths and the psychological transformation of Africa
Divine Che Neba
Which humanities for the development of postcolonial Africa?
Esaie Djomo
Climate Change Politics, Justice and Solution: An Ecolinguistic Appraisal of the Cameroonian Perspective
Julius Angwah
Ethnic Diversity and the Problem of National Unity in Cameroon: A Historical Perspective, 1961-2016
René Ngek Monteh
PART THREE: VOICES OF CULTURAL EXPERTS
Discourses on Culture in Africa: Paradigms and Challenges
David Simo
Grassfield Cultural Attractions of Mezam Division in Cameroon: Imprints of Indigenous Knowledge Faced with Western Innovations
Yvette Akwa Neba & Ojuku Tiafack
The production of arts and handicrafts for the transformative development of postcolonial Africa: The case of the Nweh ethnic group in Cameroon
Norah Aziamin Asongu
Post-modernist Afropop music and transformative development
Joseph Nkwain
Index
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