Unsettling Colonial Paradigms: Right to Development Governance as Framework Model for African Constitutionalism
Abstract
In this article, we discuss the need to dispose of colonial paradigms that hold back progress in Africa. Fundamentally challenging is the fact that Africa is not only lacking an operational model for governance and development but has remained stuck to colonial paradigms, which by their paternalistic nature defeat the purpose for which independence was achieved. We identify that the right to
development has evolved in the course of African history as an alternative model to the ‘civilization paradigm’ that laid the foundation for imperial domination. In substitution, we propose the right to development governance as a framework model by which to constructively remodel African constitutionalism and set the parameters for advancing the continent towards effective governance and self-reliant sustainable development.
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