Abstract

The experience of sub-Saharan Africa with social development in the period between 1981 and 2005 has been grim, indeed. Over the period, policy focus has turned from a wider vision of social policy to narrow social protection concerns. This is what we refer to as the social protection paradigm (SPP). We offer an assessment of the paradigm. In its place, we offer an alternative vision encapsulated in the idea of transformative social policy, stressing the multiple roles of social policy and its wider vision of society. Social policy, in the context of meeting Africa's development challenges, must embrace these multiple roles, framed by the norms of equality and social solidarity. Résumé L'expérience du développement social de l'Afrique subsaharienne entre 1981 et 2005 était sombre. Pendant ce période, l'attention de la politique a tourné d'une vision au sens large de la politique sociale a une plus étroite qui concerne la protection sociale. Ceci s'appelle le paradigme de la protection sociale. Nous offrons une évaluation du paradigme. A la place, nous proposons une vision alternative qui contient l'idée d'une politique sociale transitive, et qui met l'accent sur les rôles multiples de la politique sociale et une vision au sens large de la société. La politique sociale, dans le contexte des besoins de développement de l'Afrique, doit adopter ces rôles nombreux, encadrés par la vision acceptée de l'égalité et de la solidarité sociale.

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