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. Table of Contents 6 Foreword • George Klay Kieh, Jr. 8 Preface 12 Introduction: We Shall Return to Fanon 14 1. Of Consciousness: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Fanon and Others 28 2. The “Old Globalization” and the Invention of Africa 39 3. “Does Anyone Out There Love Me?” 58 4. Françafrique: The Longest Economic and Human Genocide 75 5. Capitalism and Neurosis 100 6. Modernization Theory and the Making of the Abandonment-Neurotic African 115 7. The “Mamadou Syndrome”: Disease of the Native Informant 131 8. Lessons from the East: India’s and China’s Experiences with Liberalism 151 9. Palliative: Toward a New Development Paradigm for Africa 156 Conclusion: Shifting the Center of Development Thinking 181 Chapter Notes 186 Bibliography 196 Index 202 "The book 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"--Provided by publisher.