“We are Humans and Not Dogs”

Zachary Levenson, Berkeley Journal of Sociology

The South African government has delivered well over 3 million formal homes free of charge since the 1994 transition. But in post-apartheid Cape Town, many recipients of these houses are fed up. Rather than the endpoint of the post-apartheid urban crisis, deficient delivery reproduces it anew, accentuating discontent in the process.

Power, Knowledge and Social Control in Participatory Development

Power, Knowledge and Social Control in Participatory Development by troy_13

Brecht Forum TV: Remembering Walter Rodney 40 Years After "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa"

Reconstruction or Transformation

by Ari Sitas, The 1995 Rick Turner Memorial Lecture, Republished in Theoria

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

by Walter Rodney, 1973

Preface

Chapter One. Some Questions on Development

1.1 What is Development
1.2 What is Underdevelopment?

Development and its discontents Review of Rasna Warah’s ‘Missionaries, Mercenaries and Misfits’

Anna White, Pambazuka

Last year, former World Bank economist Dambisa Moyo made waves with the publication of her controversial book, ‘Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa’. Over the past 60 years, she laments, at least US$1 trillion of development-related aid has flowed into Africa, yet the number of people living on less than a dollar a day has nearly doubled. She is not the first observer to contrast the size of the multi-billion dollar development industry and the blatant lack of progress on its stated goals.

Fanon and Development: A Philosophical Look

Lewis Gordon

by Lewis Gordon, CODESRIA, 2011

Fanon’s philosophy can be summarised by a single conviction: That maturity is fundamental to the human condition, but one cannot achieve maturity without being actional, which, for Fanon, is tantamount to freedom. Much of his subsequent writings explore this thesis. In Les Damnés de la terre, this march through concentric layers of hell, echoed in the title’s reference to Les Damnés, returns, but now in the context of the wider political question of a geo-constituted realm.