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• Title: Reconstituting the Neo-Colonial State in Africa (Voices OF THE SUBALTERN: IDENTITIES, HIERACHIES AND SOCIAL STUGGLES IN A GLOBALIZING Age) (Essay)
• Author : Journal of Third World Studies
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 310 KB

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INTRODUCTION There is a general consensus in the scholarly literature that the neocolonial state in Africa has failed to address and meet the needs of the preponderant majority of the peoples of Africa. As Abdi S amatar and Ahmed Samatar argue, "The failure of the state in Africa is so uncontested that both scholarly discussions and policy concerns have increasingly shifted to what is called 'civil society.'" (1) For example, Africa lags behind all the other regions of the world on all of the basic human needs indicators--employment, food, safe drinking water, sanitation, health care, education and housing. Moreover, the majority of the peoples of Africa are trapped in the abyss of abject poverty and its consequent deprivation and misery. However, the members of the various ruling classes in Africa, their families, friends and supporters have all of the material comforts of life courtesy of the neo-colonial state. This reflects the dialectical tension inherent in the neo-colonial state in Africa between the construct's negligent and enabling complexions. On the one hand, the neocolonial state has, and continues to fail to provide the basic needs of the vast majority of the African Peoples. But, on the other hand, the neo-colonial state provides more than the basic needs of the members of the ruling classes. The dialectical tension rests on the fact that the members of the ruling classes are able to use their control of the state machinery to foster the private accumulation of capital through the plundering and pillaging of public resources. In short, the very neo-colonial state that cannot meet the basic needs of the African masses is the same one that is the source of wealth (illegal) and comforts for the members of the ruling classes.

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