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The Recolonization of Africa Today - With Neither Guns Nor Bullets (Hardcover, 2nd Revised ed.)
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The Recolonization of Africa Today - With Neither Guns Nor Bullets (Hardcover, 2nd Revised ed.)
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The need for a revision of this well received and reviewed work was
obvious to all serious observers of sub Saharan Africa: The
emergence in the last decade of the enormouspolitical, economic and
social clout of China, the desire of Magrebi states and Egypt to
continue a "southward" policy that includes conversion to Islam,
Arab investment and especially control of oil and agricultural
lands. Professor Mentan has lucidly discussed the origins of neo
colonialism and in this new work not only challenges the "benign"
intent of China and Libya, he also introduces 3 new chapters on
NGO-land...the Haiti-like conversion of whole regions into
dependence on non governmental organizations based in the West(but
also, increasingly, in the East). Mentan also discusses African
higher education and its thralldom (in too many cases) to European
or American models that are unworkable in the HIPC nations of West
and Central Africa. This "academic capitalism " is shown as
extremely harmful to the poorest African societies especially
Fundamentalist Islam and Christianity. The author does not spare
national and local elites and homegrown political and social
players in what has happened but he argues that that the forces of
neocolonialism(although they would decry that label) still seek to
atomize, exploit an dominate via concentrated ownership and
development of Africa's immense natural resources and potential
consumer demand. Finally, this study also discusses the realities
of genocide, permanent war, disease and forced urbanization as they
effect the African people discussing Darfur, Southern Sudan,
Eastern Congo, Rwanda and Cote Ivoire.
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