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Documenting Faith-Development Trajectory in Africa: Contributions and Contestations
(South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics, 2019) Olajire, Oluyinka Olutola
This article focuses on faith and work particularly in Africa. It highlights the important role of faith based organisations in development. Specifically, it reviews the history of faith-based social provisioning; however, particular attention is devoted to the contributions of faith-based organisations towards enhancing delivery of social services to the disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Africa. To compliment the foregoing, a comprehensive review of existing relevant literature on achievements and contradictions attributed to faith-based social provisioning is examined. In short, this article concludes that Faith-based Organisations, in line with their myriad social and developmental activities have become a veritable institution that caters for the vulnerable and disadvantaged people, particularly in remotes areas and societies where expenditure on public services has been cut by the governments.