Editorial Don’t look where you fell; look where you slipped - an African proverb

Abstract

This volume looks at the themes of colonialism, Africa’s ‘development’, elections and international development goals. As prelude, Nhemachena and Dhakwa (2017: 56) aver that: The paradox is that in a world that claims to be increasingly inclusive, Africans are increasingly being excluded from owning their own resources that are still being grabbed by transnational corporations trawling the world, in the logics of global hunter-gatherers in which Africans are treated as foreigners in their own countries