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Leadership
Economy

DEEPENING AFRICA’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:

AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE

East African Community Regional Conference:
Development, Growth and Power of the GDP: An African
Philosophical Grounding.

Kampala, Uganda: 21 – 24 August 2014

eating the West at its to overhaul and re-engineer the
own game, argues Ashis Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Dr Mfuniselwa Bhengu
Nandy (1983), is the pre- methodology, is a struggle to beat Independent Researcher on Afrikan philos-
Bferred means of handling the West at its game. Unlike ‘the ophy, Afrikology and Egyptology. author,
the feelings of selfhatred in the banditkings who robbed, maimed, self-publisher and managing director of
modernized nonWest, there is also killed and colonized’, and further,
the West constructed by the savage ‘faced and expected to face other Phindela Publishing Group
outsider who is neither willing to be civilizations with their versions of
a player nor a counter player’. The middle kingdoms and barbarians;
on-going struggle among Africans the pure and the impure; the kafirs

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