Nhakanomics: Harvesting Knowledge and Value for Re-generation Through Social Innovation

Nhakanomics: Harvesting Knowledge and Value for Re-generation Through Social Innovation is
a radical departure from the commonly held belief that neo-liberal
economics from the US and the West is universal, and is the only
solution to underdevelopment and poverty throughout the world. Instead,
the book teases out and theorises the intellectually rutted terrain of
development studies, and neo-liberal economics from a decolonial
Pan-Africanist perspective. Following a path of social innovation, with
perspectives drawn from social anthropology, economics, and business and
management studies Nhakanomics is a unique socio-economic
approach applicable in the Global South and in Southern Africa in
particular. The study argues that the process and substance of
nhakanomics with its pre-emphasis on the relational South provides a
robust and holistic approach to social innovation and social
transformation grounded in relational networks and ‘meshworks’. The
central idea is a call to re-GENE-rate society, through local
Grounding and Origination, and tapping into local-global Emergent
Foundations via a newly global Emancipatory Navigation, while ultimately
culminating in global-local transformative Effects in four recursive
cycles of re-GENE-rating C(K)umusha, Culture, Communication, and Capital
after re-Constituting Africa-the 5Cs. With a novel and radical approach
the book is an interrogation of neo-liberal economics in the Global
South. As such, this book is remarkably handy to students and
practitioners in the fields of economics, development studies, political
science, science and technology studies, business management,
sociology, transformation studies, and development related
non-Governmental Organisations working with grassroots communities.