लेखक: Mzikazi Nduna

Professor Nene Ernest Khalema is an Associate Professor and Academic Leader of Community Development at the School of Built Environment & Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). He is a former Chief Research Specialist (CRS) at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and former assistant professor of social work at the University of Calgary in Canada. Before joining UKZN he taught social science, social work, community development and public health at numerous institutions in Canada since 2001. He is a co-editor of several books titled: Millennium Development Goals in Retrospect: Africa”s Development Beyond 2015 (Springer, 2015) and Africa Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Exploring the Multidimensional Discourses on Development (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013). These publications unearthed development dynamics in specific African countries, critically examined development prescriptions of the North towards Africa, examined the continent”s external relations, rethought predominant ideas on development, and engaged in critical examination of the concepts and practices that have maintained hegemonic positions in discussions on Africa”s development.