Fanon's Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the New Partnership for Africa's Development - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592210090 ISBN 13: 9781592210091

Publisher: Africa Research & Publications, 2002

Synopsis

evelopment The New Partnership for Africa's Development plans to develop equitable and sustainable growth in Africa by increasing its integration with the world economy. But NEPAD has come under criticism from major social movements, trade unions and intellectuals for its reliance on corporate-driven globalisation, and its apparent existence as an extension of neo-colonial globalisation. Here, the original NEPAD manifesto is reproduced alongside a paragraph-by-paragraph annotated critique from thinkers and activists around the world.

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Synopsis

Is NEPAD the road to a peaceful, more prosperous Africa, or is it only a mask for the partnership Frantz Fanon warned against forty years ago? In his book, The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon drew attention to a relationship forged by an African leadership, which identifies "with the decadence of the bourgeoisie of the West. We need not think that it is jumping ahead; it is in fact beginning at the end. It is already senile before it has come to know the petulance, the fearlessness, or the will to succeed of youth." Allegedly voicing the popular will, the New Partnership for Africa's Development plans to develop equitable and sustainable growth in Africa by increasing its integration with the world economy. But NEPAD has come under criticism from major social movements, trade unions and intellectuals for its reliance on corporate-driven globalisation, and its apparent perpetuation of neo-colonial globalisation. Here, the original NEPAD manifesto is reproduced alongside a paragraph-by-paragraph annotated critique from thinkers and activists around the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Africa Research & Publications
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592210090
• ISBN 13: 9781592210091
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Bond Patrick