Africa Through Structuration Theory – ntu

Despite
all the talk about African renaissance, much of the continent is
plagued by poverty and instability. To break out of that cycle, the
guardians of African heritage (the old independence freedom fighters
turned political leaders and their successors) and much of Afrocentric
literature rightly promote African ideas and solutions for African
problems. While the idea in itself is noble, the danger is for Africa to
close itself off and ignore ‘outside’ technical and intellectual
innovations that it desperately needs to advance further. Africa through
Structuration Theory – ntu joins the discourse by attempting to restore
intellectual freedom and convincingly defends structuration theory not
only as the way forward for Africa but also as a legitimate African
concept. It is innovative, refreshing and deserves to be heard across
the world and appreciated especially by African graduates, current and
future leaders of various African institutions or businesses,
non-Africans who might hesitate to refer to such a theory when trying to
understand and deal with African problems and the wider public who
constitute the audience for this book.