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Failure of Leadership in Africa's Development

  • ISBN-13: 9781793613257
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Ike Okonta
  • Price: AUD $212.00
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  • Local release date: 15/04/2020
  • Format: Hardback 232 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Asian history [HBJF]
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This book examines the standard scholarly explanations of the cause of Africa's underdevelopment and argues that the traditional scholarly explanations - colonial and neo-colonial expropriation, racial assumptions, nor geographical theory - are plausible as the main cause of Africa's underdevelopment. Rather, the book contends, the chief cause of the continent's underdevelopment is the failure of leadership in a long succession of Africa's traditional ruling classes. This failure of leadership, the book shows, was demonstrated most clearly in the historically traceable indifference of a long line of Africa's monarchs to scientific and technological progress. This indifference set the stage for the subsequent conquest, expropriation, and technological stagnation of Africa. The book concludes by recommending a blueprint for the continent's future development.
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
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