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Abstract
Bame Nsamenang was an exceptional force for Africa’s children, seeking to have their lived experience be heard and appreciated globally. Bame identified early in his career a dearth in the African-led and African-conceptualized child development (CD) literature and commenced to address that void. Over time, he addressed as well similar weaknesses in the early childhood education, care and development (ECD) literature becoming an inspiration to a younger generation of African scholars and a beacon for those who questioned the universality of dominant discourses in both the CD and the ECD literatures. While his time with us was shorter than expected, his contributions will be long standing.
Notes
1 Details of the ECDVU program and its philosophical approach can be found at Pence & Marfo, Citation2004; Pence & Benner, Citation2015; and at www.ecdinafrica.org.
2 The completion rate across all five ECDVU deliveries (2–5 were one-year programs) was over 94%.
3 Using the terms ‘majority world’ (for the developing world) and ‘minority world’ (for the developed world) reminds us that most people in the world live in the economically poorer continents of the world.
4 In order to share ideas regarding capacity development from other parts of the world Robert Myers and Cigdem Kaigitcibasi also participated.
5 A somewhat smaller, primarily East Africa Scholars and Institutions Workshop was piggy-backed onto the first African ISSBD international meeting held in Zambia in 2010.
6 The neo-liberal economic agenda used as a key support for ECD internationally, was then and continues to be today, challenged within the ECE/ECD community – for example see Kjrholt & Penn, Citation2018.
7 As a contributor to the volume and a co-organiser of the workshop, the event, held over a week at a retreat facility in Sweden, provided added value for the 27 authors who attended, and material for the framework developed by Cochran included in the publication.