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Title African perspectives on poverty, Indigenous knowledge systems, and innovation / Oliver Mtapuri, editor
Published Singapore : Springer, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (x, 237 pages)
Contents Preface -- Part I. Povery and Indigenous Knowledge Systems -- Onomastic and Conceptual Pathologisation of African Culture as Creation and Perpetuation of African Poverty in Zimbabwe -- Empirecrafting or Statecrafting Africa? Beyond Banal "Traditional" Witchery and Towards Rebuilding the Moral Economy -- Impoverishment as a Constraint to Africa’s Social Development -- Indigenous Knowledge and Poverty Alleviation in Contemporary Zimbabwe -- The Efficacy of Traditional Institutions in the Conservation of Sacred Heritage Resources in Zimbabwe -- Kinship Relations and Urban Poverty. A Case Study of Budiriro in Harare, Zimbabwe -- Processes, Policies, and Systems Needed to End Poverty on the African Continent -- Valuing Common Good in Addressing Inequalities and Poverty in African Economies -- Indigenous Knowledge and Poverty Alleviation in Africa: Experiences from Cameroon -- Part II. Innovation -- Interrogating a Developmental State: Opportunities and Priorities for Development Using Policy and Innovation -- Technological Opportunities and Challenges: A Review of Bottled Gas Smart Metering Technology—A Study from Tanzania -- The Role of Incubation Centres at Universities in Supporting Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship -- Indigenous Knowledge and Innovations in Tanzania: Opportunities for Smallholder Farmers to Adapt with Climate Change
Summary This book examines the connections between poverty and innovation in Africa. Through case studies and theorizations from a distinctly African perspective, it stands in contrast to current theoretical works in the field, which remain very much rooted in Western-orientated thinking. The book investigates the application of methodologies which explain numerous African contexts in connection with issues of poverty and inequality. It reflects on comparative practices and praxes on the African continent, including commonplace traditions and practices in alleviating poverty, taken against a background of the failure of current prescriptions for poverty alleviation, such as the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP). There is a dire need for new practical perspectives which move Africa forward using its Indigenous knowledge. Owing to a general lack of recorded African theories and methodologies on poverty, inequality and innovation, this book represents a pioneering corpus of African knowledge addressing poverty and inequality through local innovations. Adopting a transdisciplinary approach, it is relevant to students and scholars in development studies and economics, African studies, social studies, political history and political economy, climate studies, anthropology and geography
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 1, 2022)
Subject Ethnoscience -- Africa
Poverty -- Africa
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Africa
Ethnoscience
Poverty
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Mtapuri, Oliver, editor
ISBN 9789811958564
9811958564