Endogenous Development

Chiku Malunga is an Organizational Paremiologist. He works with Civil Society Organizations as an Organization Development Practitioner, using African Indigenous Wisdom in African Proverbs and Folktales to transform development management.Susan Holcombe has worked with Oxfam America and several United Nations organizations, and has taught sustainable development at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. Her career ranges from on the ground experience in Africa and Asia, to teaching and research.

• 1. Introduction – Endogenous development: naïve romanticism or practical route to sustainable African development? Part I: Defining endogenous development 2. Identifying and understanding African norms and values that support endogenous development in Africa 3. Endogenous development: some issues of concern 4. African family values in a globalised world: the speed and intensity of change in post-colonial Africa Part II: Endogenous development in practice 5. African philanthropy, pan-Africanism, and Africa’s development 6. Wiki approaches to wicked problems: considering African traditions in innovative collaborative approaches 7. Using Rwandan traditions to strengthen programme and policy implementation 8. Lessons of endogenous leadership in Nigeria: innovating to reduce waste and raise incomes in the cassava processing and goat-keeping systems 9. Centring African culture in water, sanitation, and hygiene development praxis in Ghana: a case for endogenous development 10. Endogenous development in Somalia: bridging the gap between traditional and Western implementation methodologies 11. Water tariff conflict resolution through indigenous participation in tri-water sector partnerships: Dalun cluster communities in northern Ghana 12. Endogenous African governance systems: what roles do women play in rural Malawi? 13. Putting endogenous development into practice Part III: Endogenous development in a globalised world 14. Donors and exogenous versus endogenous development 15. Indigenous languages and Africa’s development dilemma Part IV: Moving forward with endogenous development 16. Endogenous development going forward: learning and action