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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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Edition
1/2020
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
Monograph
Table of contents
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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
