Book Chapter10.1057/978-1-137-59426-6_24
Colonialism and Development in Africa
Ruth Rempel
- 01 Jan 2018
- pp 569-619
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TL;DR: In this article, Rempel argues that the United Nations invented development in 1949 and that it shared with its imperial rival assumptions about economic growth, planning, and the primary role of the state.
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Abstract: Rempel engages the argument that President Truman invented development in 1949. She points to nineteenth-century African modernization initiatives, and the development discourse that accompanied the Scramble for Africa. Europeans initially used ad hoc development measures in their African colonies, but were pushed to systematize and change them by global war and economic depression, and by persistent African agency. Rempel’s overview of imperial development history focuses on British and French colonies where peasant agriculture predominated, particularly Uganda. US involvement in colonial-era development is examined in Liberia and Ethiopia. Rempel identifies a countervailing development project, adopted by African nationalists and systematized in the United Nations in the 1950s. It shared with its imperial rival assumptions about economic growth, planning, and the primary role of the state.
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