Globalization and the Seduction of Africa's Ruling Class: An Argument for a New Philosophy of Development

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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Globalization and the Seduction of Africa's Ruling Class: An Argument for a New Philosophy of Development

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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Globalization and the Seduction of Africa's Ruling Class: An Argument for a New Philosophy of Development

Globalization and the Seduction of Africa's Ruling Class: An Argument for a New Philosophy of Development

by K. Martial Frindéthié
Globalization and the Seduction of Africa's Ruling Class: An Argument for a New Philosophy of Development

Globalization and the Seduction of Africa's Ruling Class: An Argument for a New Philosophy of Development

by K. Martial Frindéthié

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786448401
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 08/31/2010
Pages: 204
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

K. Martial Frindéthié is a professor of Francophone studies at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. An award winning author, his research interests include literature and film and the intersection of literature and political-ideological imagination.

Table of Contents

Foreword 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

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