Rejuvenating the Mozambican knowledge factory

Luca Bussotti writing over at Pambazuka:

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Firing up the local production of knowledge is crucial to escaping the ‘industry of development’

...it appears rather obvious that few people have an interest in promoting local knowledge and knowledge in general as a key to exiting structural dependence. Rather, as Mozambican sociologist Elísio Macamo wrote, the ‘industry of development’ continues to work, and it doesn't seem to be in the interest of the leading classes to get rid of it.