1. Introduction: Home-Grown Development: A Concept Whose Time has Come 2. Development Paradigms: A Contest of Ideas 3. General Overview of Home-Grown Socio-Economic Development Programmes 4. The Coordinated Programme for the Economic and Social Development of Ghana 5. The National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy in Nigeria 6. From Reconstruction to Empowerment: The Challenges of the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Programme in Post-Apartheid South Africa 7. Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth in Kenya (ERS) 8. The Prospects and Limits of Home-Grown Development

This book provides a critical evaluation of 'homegrown' development initiatives in Africa, set up as alternatives to externally sponsored development. Focusing specifically on Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya, the book takes a qualitative and comparative approach to offer the first ever in-depth analysis of indigenous development programmes. It examines:

• How far African states have moved towards more homegrown development strategies.
• The effects of the shift towards African homegrown socio-economic development strategies and the conditions needed to enhance their success and sustainability.

Chukwumeije Okereke is Associate Professor of Environment and Development at the University of Reading, UK

Patricia Agupusi is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, USA.