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Re-Centering Culture in Development Administration in Africa: Remedies for Nigeria

Re-Centering Culture in Development Administration in Africa: Remedies for Nigeria
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Author(s): Olabanji Akinola (University of Guelph, Canada)and Mopelolade Oreoluwa Ogunbowale (State University of New York – Buffalo, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 21
Source title: Global Perspectives on Development Administration and Cultural Change
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Gbenga Emmanuel Afolayan (Murdoch University, Australia)and Akeem Ayofe Akinwale (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0629-4.ch004

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Abstract

The role of culture in development remains controversial in the literature. However, within the African context, both historically and in contemporary times, arguments vilifying culture remain rife. This continues a process of decentering culture from the discourse and practice of development on the continent. This chapter argues against this trend and calls for a recentering of culture as a positive element in the administration of development in Africa. Drawing on the Nigerian experience, the chapter provides some remedies for the country in particular and the rest of Africa in general. The chapter maintains that without bringing culture back into the practice of development on the continent, current developmental challenges are likely to persist into the future.

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