Introduction / Toyin Falola and Jessica Achberger. - Part 1. Historical roots of African underdevelopment. - Africa and the making of the global environmental narrative: challenges and opportunities for the continent's development initiatives / Martin S. Shanguhyia. - Indigenization versus...

Introduction / Augustine Agwuele -- Part 1. Modernism-modernity: socio-cultural transformation: Between delayed modernity and deferred democracy: Africa's troubled take-off / Ali A. Mazrui -- A critique of Cornel West's "Race and modernity" / Hetty ter Haar -- Chieftaincy, collective interests...