Confronting the Orthodoxies of Globalisation: Failed State Syndrome, Economic Dependency and the l)ilemma of African Development

Nwozor, Agaptus (2013) Confronting the Orthodoxies of Globalisation: Failed State Syndrome, Economic Dependency and the l)ilemma of African Development. National Development Studies (6). pp. 1-23.

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Abstract

Africa is ern uneqnal partner in the globalisetl vr,orlr-1. L)espite the neoliberal claims that globalisation pr11r1,i6les eqlr.rl opportunities for growth and devekrpment to ali prl;1ys15 in thc global capitalist ;rrena, all indices of growth and developrrncnt in relatitrn to Africa are in the nc;ative lr,hich signify that globalis.rtion has led to retrogrc.ssion rather than progress. The dilemma of Africa's develr.lprmgnt is in svnc "r,ith, and indeed jr-rstifies, the seeming snsprcion and criticisms of the de;renden., theorisation of Third World scholarship. No dor-rbt, the n.rture of Africa's incorporation :into the global c.,rpitalist system contributed to its peripheral status, but that explanatory moclel does not satisfactorilv subsist in explaining its continued entrapment in r.rnderdevelop-rment given its abundant human and natr-rral eudowments. The culpability for Africa's underdevelopment does not only reside in the mechanisms of its integration into global capitalism but extends to the postcolonial conduct of st.rte affairs by its ruling elite. This paper examines the contemprorary atlas of Africa's socio-economic formation vis-)-vis the index of failed states .rncl argues that there is urgent need for a model of der.'elr-rpment outside the precinct of Ettro-American orthodoxy of globalisation i.rs presently constituted.

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