Globalization and the Seduction of Africa’s Ruling Class
An Argument for a New Philosophy of Development
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Assessing development thinking from a multidisciplinary perspective, this work argues that Africa is undeveloped not in spite of globalization, but precisely because of globalization’s saintly mission of unbridled liberalization and Euro-American teleology, which has reduced the African governing class to a body of abandonment-neurotics, co-conspirators in the First World’s human and economic genocides. The work suggests subsequently that, provided Africans remain impervious to the anti-Asian agitation which is sweeping the Euro-American world today, they have invaluable lessons in standpoint development to learn from India’s and China’s experiences with liberalism as well as constructive alliances to establish with these emerging transitional nations.
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Bibliographic Details
K. Martial Frindéthié
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 204
Bibliographic Info: notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2010
pISBN: 978-0-7864-4840-1
eISBN: 978-0-7864-5791-5
Imprint: McFarland
Table of Contents
Foreword by George Klay Kieh, Jr. 1
Preface 5
Introduction: We Shall Return to Fanon 7
1. Of Consciousness: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Fanon and Others 21
2. The “Old Globalization” and the Invention of Africa 32
3. “Does Anyone Out There Love Me?” 51
4. Françafrique: The Longest Economic and Human Genocide 68
5. Capitalism and Neurosis 93
6. Modernization Theory and the Making of the Abandonment-Neurotic African 108
7. The “Mamadou Syndrome”: Disease of the Native Informant 124
8. Lessons from the East: India’s and China’s Experiences with Liberalism 144
9. Palliative: Toward a New Development Paradigm for Africa 149
Conclusion: Shifting the Center of Development Thinking 174
Chapter Notes 179
Bibliography 189
Index 195
