... cast in stone. In Africa, the notion of development has only a relatively short history, with development programs only being set up late this century. The suggestions of the concept are still being realized however. It is only since the 1980s that Western thought has really given a critical eye over exactly what development has achieved and started to look at the other choices available. This reassessment has been encouraged by the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s, which damaged faith in the power of the Capitalist model, since instead of producing a single model of capitalist democracy, it created a new world confusion. This acted as an example of how the world's economic system is not evolving as many people once thought it would - that is, slowly incorporating all underdeveloped countries into the capitalist mode of production that someone had suggested would be a ...

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