GLOBALISATION AND AFRICA

PRABHAKAR, AKHILESH CHANDRAAkhilesh Chandra Prabhakar has been working as an Assistant Professor with DBU, UoG and AAU in Ethiopia since 2005 under the UNDP. He obtained a Ph.D. degree from JNU, New Delhi. He is a Member of the UN based Inter-Governmental Think Tank for the South. He has been serving as a Director of Third World Social Forum since 2005.

This book deals with the concept of globalisation, its history, instruments and problems for the African continent. While identifying it as one of the recent developments currently changing the physiognomy of global politics, it specifically focuses on its challenges, consequences and implications for Africa particularly, in the realm of equality of membership, requisite inputs into the policy process and, the encapsulating assertiveness of the global village. In the process, it was argued and revealed that, globalisation is the final conquest of capital over the rest of the world and that its "antecedents" and "uneven thesis" are explainable within the one- arm banditry and ethos of capitalism. Furthermore, it was argued that this will continue to be so, irrespective of its aim at the transcendental homogenization of political and socio-economic theory across the globe and its purported benefits to mankind. The central thesis of our study is that the asymmetry of power and interests of the member states of the global village, as well as the lopsidedness in the rules of the game there-in, cannot benefit Africa and her people.