The Failure of Leadership in Africa's Development
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- 2020
Summary
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.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2020
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-7936-1325-7
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-7936-1326-4
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 221
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- 1 Africa’s Underdevelopment No access Pages 1 - 18
- 2 A Crippled and Comatose Giant No access Pages 19 - 30
- 3 The Cause of Africa’s Underdevelopment No access Pages 31 - 58
- 4 Africa’s Historical Indifference to Technological Progress No access Pages 59 - 86
- 5 Monarchs of “The Encounter” and Their Feeble Responses to Europe’s Technological Superiority No access Pages 87 - 132
- 6 A Blueprint for Africa’s Development No access Pages 133 - 154
- 7 The Poverty of Contemporary African Political Thought No access Pages 155 - 204
- Bibliography No access Pages 205 - 210
- Index No access Pages 211 - 220
- About the Author No access Pages 221 - 221





