“Governments used the money to build public works and infrastructure,
“Governments used the money to build public works and infrastructure,
The byproducts of decolonization including political instability, border disputes, economic ruin, and massive debt continue to plague Africa to this present day…
ethnic fractionalization is associated with a ten basis point increase. To provide a scale for these…
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We all know Africa is a poor, underdeveloped country, especially compared to rich, highly developed countries like America or Europe. Despite that fact, Africa is on the rise, thanks to globalization. According to a recent article by The Epoch Times, of the world’s fastest growing economies, 5 of the top 12 and 11 of the top 20 are now in Africa. The globalization of technology in Africa is making the continent more connected to the rest of the world economically, politically, and socially. Globalization of democratic governmental practices (democracy, neoliberalism, etc.) are transforming African governments into positive, sustainable governments. A sustained world commodity price increase and globalization of African commodities have also had a great impact on economic growth.…
By attributing less agency to poor African countries than other poor countries, it ignores those communities’ political and economic success stories. When a country in the West believes they know what is best for a country outside of their own, it is not only not true usually, but it diminishes the assistance that they are trying to offer. The interference of paternalism is justified by saying that the group will be better off because of it, but as we can see from the past, it is rarely true and an idea that those in the West must work hard to re-contextualize their understanding of countries outside of the West to fit with their true…
Africa is more undeveloped than any other country today because of the problems that were rooted from the past. The trading system, having their history denied, and the inequality had a major negative effect on Africa’s development. Africa's history has been denied and it's resources have been taken advantage which has taken an effect to their…
Since the 19th century when colonialism began to sweep throughout the African continent, European nations have been the scapegoats for Africa’s economic, political, and social issues. In Paul Johnson’s article, “Colonialism’s Back-and Not a Moment Too Soon”, we see that the present-day generation in Africa has grown to believe that colonialism is “inherently evil”, due to many historical realities. In Wangari Maathai’s The Challenge For Africa, our eyes are opened to the multitude of issues that Africa faces everyday, many of which stemmed from nineteenth century colonialism itself. But, the inhabitants of Africa have yet to recognize the severity and consequences of the problems they have. These issues did in fact root from colonialism but the expansion of these problems comes from the African people themselves. It is true that Africa has a multitude of social and economic problems but, there is a definite way to fix them and to stop them from growing.…
Many experts argue over where humans originated from and which human migration and evolution theory is most reliable. With a good hypothesis, factual evidence, and logic, many theories seem plausible. However, there are many holes in each theory (whither it be the out of Africa theory, the out of Australia theory, the out of Asia theory, or the multiregional theory) which leaves many puzzled when it comes to choosing which theory is the most authentic and trustworthy.…
When we look at Africa for that past couple of years wee see Genocide in Rwanda and Darfur ,instability in Sierra Leone, lack of a government in Somalia, Civil War in Sudan , land grabbing and AIDS in Zimbabwe, Diamond and Oil wars in Angola, Crime in South Africa. . Not to mention the problems caused by foreign debt, and affected by international ignorance and exploitation. In this paper I will try to you asses the political economic legacy of colonialism in Africa. the legacy is substantially based on the fact that that the Europeans wanted to extract resources from Africans by any means possible, even if that would lead to the instability in and destruction of the content political, economic, and social institutions up to the present…
Outside forces continue to persist in exerting their unwarranted and unnecessary influence on African countries. Many powerful countries like Great Britain, France, and Germany intentionally impede in the development of Africa. They justify their involvement by claiming to have humanitarian motives, but in reality, they have a hidden agenda to satiate their power-hungry and selfish desires like during colonialism. Evidently, there are many harmful consequences of foreign aid. The corruption that stems from foreign aid harms the African countries in terms of their civil society, social capital, and tax revenues.…
Since the beginning of time humans have been trying to figure out how our civilization has become the way it is today. Humans have been trying to figure out why we all look so different even though we all come from the same ancestors. Many theories have been brought up in regards to evolution for example the Out Of Africa theory. The Out Of Africa theory argues that all humans descended from a small group of people in Africa, who then spread into the world relocating and transforming into earlier forms such as the Neanderthal. This is a theory that I do agree with because of all the scientific research that backs up this theory.…
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Since Africa became a neo-patrimonialism it also became a hybrid system where all of its goods they got came from imports from different countries in order to reduce their cost of manufacturing them in their own country and spending thousands of dollars to produce it (Kelsall 2011). By becoming a hybrid country, they will get all of their goods from different countries at a lower price because some countries produce an abundance at a low cost and sell them for more than it cost the country to produce. Since Africa became a hybrid system it does not do a lot of imports, so everything that they make the government will give it to their people in exchange for their loyalty and comprehension. The African government made this possible by following the system of clientelism and giving the people of their county even the ones in rural areas some supplies for them to survive (Mann 2014). Their system also helped the county stop the fighting within their borders since they were made up of different tribes and so there was a lot of internal conflicts happening between them for more land for their people to have a bigger area of hunting and gathering ground, but since the government began distributing resources there was not much need for more…
Walter Rodney in his seminal book- ‘How Europe Under developed Africa’ prescribed a sort of developmental template for Africa. Rodney argued, “African independence was … the threshold of a new era … “(Rodney, 2012:279). Rodney wrote at the time when most African States were emerging from colonialism. However, decades after most African States got independence, the thoughts of Rodney remained unrealistic. The state of economic development in Africa generally provokes feelings of disillusionment. This writing undertakes a rethink on the treatise of Walter Rodney. In particular, the endemic corruption in Africa and the re-looting of recovered loot in Nigeria.…