The prospect of humanising development discourse in Africa through Christian anthropology
The invention of development as public discourse began with US President Truman’s 1949 speech that trumped up an illusion of global material prosperity based on a total restructuring of the ‘developing’ world on the model of development and material achievement of the West. Truman argued that this p...
Main Author: | Joseph Ogbonnaya |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Afrikaans |
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AOSIS
2016-11-01
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Series: | HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies |
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Online Access: | https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/3423 |
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