This is a collection of bold and visionary scholarship that reveals an insightful exposition of re-visioning African development from African perspectives. It provides an interdisciplinary conceptual base that can effectively guide the planning and implementing of programs for socio-economic development in Africa. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on continental trends on various subjects and concerns of paramount importance to globalisation and development in Africa (politics, democracy, education, gender, technology, global relationships and the role of non-governmental organisations).

Professor Edward Shizha is a sociologist in education and teaches courses in contemporary studies and youth and children's studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford in Canada. His academic and research interests are in Africanisation of education in Africa, contemporary educational problems, globalization, post-colonialism, and indigenous knowledges. He has authored, co-authored and co-edited 6 books and has several peer-reviewed journal articles to his credit. Professor Lamine Diallo is a sociologist who is involved in community development research in Canada and Africa. He is a founding member of the Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa at Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford in Canada. His teaching and research is in the areas of power, organizational leadership governance and democratization with a special focus on Africa. Prof. Diallo has been involved in several international development projects in the African continent including Benin, Senegal, Congo and Guinee.

Introduction; I: Social and Institutional Development; 1: Globalisation and Africa; 2: African Development Post-2015; 3: Democracy and Governance in Africa; 4: Globalisation, Sovereign Debt and Adjustment Programmes in Africa; II: Technology and Global Partnerships; 5: The Paradox of Broadband Access in Sub-Saharan Africa; 6: Aspirations for Senegal; 7: Globalisation, NGOs and Multi-Sectoral Relations; 8: China-Japan Rivalry in Africa; III: Gender, Migration and Settlement; 9: Evidence Based Policy-Making in the Age of Globalisation; 10: The Cracks and the Crevices; 11: Gender, Contemporary Realities, and the Challenges of Reconstructing Identities in a Transnational Context; IV: Education and Globalisation In Africa; 12: Demystifying the Misperceptions and Realities about the Efficacy of Monograde and Multigrade Pedagogies; 13: Revitalising Higher Education in the Age of Globalisation; 14: Globalising Education for Globalised Labour Markets