The Failure of Leadership in Africa's Development
Seiten
2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1325-7 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1325-7 (ISBN)
This book argues that the poverty and underdevelopment of Africa are the result of poor leadership, which is demonstrated in the historical indifference of a long succession of Africa’s ruling classes to scientific and technological progress.
The Failure of Leadership in Africa’s Development examines the dominant scholarly theories about the cause of Africa’s underdevelopment and argues that none of the traditionally invoked causes—an alleged black racial inferiority, the colonial and neo-colonial expropriation of Africa, purported natural defects in Africa’s geography—is plausible as the explanation of the main cause of the continent’s underdevelopment. Rather, the book argues that the chief cause of the continent’s lag is the failure of leadership of Africa’s ruling classes. This failure of leadership, the book shows, is most evident in the historically traceable indifference of a long succession of Africa’s ruling classes to the scientific and technological advances that were emerging from Europe and Asia during the most critical periods of Africa’s history. It was this indifference, the book argues, that set the stage for the subsequent conquest, expropriation, and technological stagnation of Africa. The book recommends a blueprint for the continent’s future development.
The Failure of Leadership in Africa’s Development examines the dominant scholarly theories about the cause of Africa’s underdevelopment and argues that none of the traditionally invoked causes—an alleged black racial inferiority, the colonial and neo-colonial expropriation of Africa, purported natural defects in Africa’s geography—is plausible as the explanation of the main cause of the continent’s underdevelopment. Rather, the book argues that the chief cause of the continent’s lag is the failure of leadership of Africa’s ruling classes. This failure of leadership, the book shows, is most evident in the historically traceable indifference of a long succession of Africa’s ruling classes to the scientific and technological advances that were emerging from Europe and Asia during the most critical periods of Africa’s history. It was this indifference, the book argues, that set the stage for the subsequent conquest, expropriation, and technological stagnation of Africa. The book recommends a blueprint for the continent’s future development.
Ike Okonta is associate professor of philosophy at Winston-Salem State University.
Chapter 1: Africa’s Underdevelopment: Nagging Questions
Chapter 2: A Crippled and Comatose Giant
Chapter 3: The Cause of Africa’s Underdevelopment: Conflicting Theories
Chapter 4: Africa’s Historical Indifference to Technological Progress
Chapter 5: Monarchs of “The Encounter” and their Feeble Responses to Europe’s Superior Technology
Chapter 6: A Blueprint for Africa’s Development
Chapter 7: The Poverty of Contemporary African Political Thought
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 522 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-1325-7 / 1793613257 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-1325-7 / 9781793613257 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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