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. Table of Contents Foreword • George Klay Kieh, Jr. Preface Introduction: We Shall Return to Fanon 1. Of Consciousness: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Fanon and Others 2. The “Old Globalization” and the Invention of Africa 3. “Does Anyone Out There Love Me?” 4. Françafrique: The Longest Economic and Human Genocide 5. Capitalism and Neurosis 6. Modernization Theory and the Making of the Abandonment-Neurotic African 7. The “Mamadou Syndrome”: Disease of the Native Informant 8. Lessons from the East: India’s and China’s Experiences with Liberalism 9. Palliative: Toward a New Development Paradigm for Africa Conclusion: Shifting the Center of Development Thinking Chapter Notes Bibliography Index