In this chapter, I articulate a postcolonial perspective from a socio-legal point of view in unpacking what the right to socio-economic and cultural development represents for Africa. I do so within the context of the decolonial campaign to unearth the dark and bleak side of global coloniality that has compressed Africa into a problematic cosmopolitan standard of internationalisation, universalism, globalisation and multilateralism. Africa has evolved within these parameters, and in the process of seeking to conform to the cosmopolitan standards that measure contributions to development primarily in terms of normative preconceptions that negate and limit alternative imaginations, is often excluded from the structures and processes of global development policy-making. In this inquiry, I question whether contributions to global development necessarily entail robbing Africa of identity and freedoms as it is the case, which has only created for the continent, limitations and vulnerabilities to which cosmopolitan paradigms proffer no sensible solutions. In exploring the postcolonial conception of the right to development, I illustrate the imperative for self-actualisation, requiring Africa to set its own development priorities in proactively responding to the range of challenges that the continent is confronted with. The analysis obtains from the starting point that the right to development is anchored on the entitlement to self-determination, which guarantees a pluriversality of alternative approaches from which to make sensible development choices.