Partnership between the State and the Church: Contextualizing Nigerian Faith-Based Vehicles as Poverty Reduction Tools in the Millenium
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53808#.VNR3iizQrzE Author(s) Ani Casimir , Chukwuelobe Mathew , Ambrose Nwankwo Affiliation(s) Department of Philosophy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria . ABSTRACT Social scientists studying African development have found themselves in a “paradigmatic crisis” (Ake, 2003: p. 17) in recent years, especially in the face of new challenges of development arising from the millenium development goals adopted by the United Nations. They have often posed the question—How can African development benefit from the MDGS, so that the African poor can attain the goals before 2015? This crisis needs to be properly contextualized so as to understand the dilemma facing the African poor in the new millenium. For example, at the end of the day, we should be in a position to know the answers to such questions such as “ who defines what is de- velopment in africa; what ...