Africa and Globalization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Africa in a Globalized World

   • Kenneth Kalu, Toyin Falola

   Pages 1-18

3. Africa’s Adaptation to Globalization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. The Rediscovery of Africa

      • Melike Yilmaz, Fatima Momodu

      Pages 21-38

   3. Globalization and the Creative Space in Africa: Implications for Governance and Development

      • N. Oluwafemi Mimiko, Funmilola Olorunfemi

      Pages 39-47

   4. Postcolonial Africa’s Development Trajectories

      • Mesut Yilmaz, Chigozie Enwere

      Pages 49-69

   5. Collective Social Action: Enlightenment Ethic and the Rise of Modern Individualism

      • Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin

      Pages 71-91

   6. Same Migrants, Two Business Models: Culture-Centered and Non-Traditional Businesses Established by Ethiopians and Eritreans in Washington DC

      • Mussa Idris

      Pages 93-108

   7. Making Sense of South Africa’s Soft Power: Projections, Prospects and Possibilities

      • Olusola Ogunnubi, Dorcas Ettang

      Pages 109-140

4. Governance and Creativity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. Developmental Strategies and Cultural Dynamics in Rural Nigeria

      • Harriet Omokiniovo Efanodor

      Pages 143-159

   3. The Impossible Craft of Nation-Building in Postcolonial Cameroon

      • Ramon A. Fonkoué

      Pages 161-181

   4. Creativity and New Technologies: Piracy, Politics and the Business of Cultural Production in Nigeria

      • Charles E. Nwadigwe

      Pages 183-204

   5. Igbo Community Policing and Its Relevance for Contemporary Nigeria

      • Ernest Toochi Aniche

      Pages 205-223

   6. “Come and Chop”: Representations of the Parliamentarian in Ola Rotimi’s If and Emeka Nwabueze’s A Parliament of Vultures

      • Bosede Funke Afolayan

      Pages 225-235

   7. Conclusion

      • Kenneth Kalu, Toyin Falola

      Pages 237-242

5. Back Matter

   Pages 243-258

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This book considers the promises and challenges of globalization for Africa. Why have African states been perennially unable to diversify their economies and move beyond export of primary produce, even as Southeast Asia has made a tremendous leap into manufacturing? What institutional impediments are in play in African states? What reforms would mitigate the negative effects of globalization and distribute its benefits more equitably? Covering critical themes such as political leadership, security challenges, the creative sector, and community life, essays in this volume argue that the starting point for Africa’s meaningful engagement with the rest of the world must be to look inward, examine Africa’s institutions, and work towards reforms that promote inclusiveness and stability.

• Atlantic slave trade
• Globalization of Africa
• governance in Africa
• African economy
• Africa in the global market
• African indigenous culture
• African traditions
• colonialism in Africa
• Nigeria's creative sector
• Nigerian film industry
• Nollywood
• prebendalism
• creative space in Africa
• migration of Africans
• neoliberalism
• African political economy
• African development
• soft power in South Africa

• Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

  Toyin Falola

• Global Management Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

  Kenneth Kalu

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.


Kenneth Kalu is Assistant Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.  

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