In this thought provoking book, Komla Tsey argues that if governments,
NGOs, development donor agencies and researchers are serious about
development in Africa, they need to get down to ground level, both
metaphorically and literally. They must search deep into Africa's own
rich oral traditions by creating space and opportunity for ordinary
Africans, whose voices have so far been conspicuously absent in the
development discourse, to tell and share their own stories of
development. Story-sharing as research methodology acts as a mirror,
reflecting the participants' self-evaluation of where they have come
from, where they are now, and how to proceed into the future. They are
strategies that can empower and enable individuals and communities of
people to be agents of their own change which, in Tsey's view, is what
development is all about.