GEORGES GOMA-GAKISSA

OUTLINE

1. Introduction: Economic Paradigm of

Exploitation

2. Framework: Theoretical Ambition (Ethos &

Praxis)

3. Sociopolitical Instability & African Potentialities

4. Meaning & Impact of Globalization

5. Concrete Determinants of Non-Progress

Intoduction (1)Africa: the Background

Africa and the International

Relations/Competitiveness

International Regulation and its Limits

Democratization and its Ambiguities

Core-Hinterland Theory

Tracking the Paradigm of Economic Exploitation

Fondations of the Concept of Social Progress

INTRODUCTION (2)

INTRODUCTION (3)World Map in 1676 World Map Today

INTRODUCTION (4)

The FrameworkFirst Thinking Sketch & In-Depth Reflection

upon the Black ContinentNeed Strong Theoretical Perspective to Better

UnderstandAfricans (Ethos) Versus Africa (Praxis)Conceptualizing Social Progress in Africa by

Articulating Dimension s of Ethos and PraxisA Third Dimension: Ethical PrinciplesThe Questioning:

What Concretely Social Progress Means?What Explains the Cleavage Nations inProgress &

Nations Lagging Behind and Sometimes in Regression?

What is Nestled at the Transactional Network between People and Nations for the Sake of Social progress?

Sociopolitical Instability & Economic Potentiality

The Social Construction of Political Instability

Major Intra-African Unrests in Post Colonial Era

Forces that Construct the Instability Are:Endogenous: The Conflict for the PowerExogenous: The Best Paternalistic Partner

The Exploitaiton ParadigmFrom SlaveryTo ColonizationAnd Post-Colonization

The Capitalistic Logic & Dynamic

Impact of Globalization in African Countries (1)

Free Trade & Business Not Really a New Phenomenon

Should Lead to Efficient Use of Resources & Benefit

All

Should Help to Rise Global Economy Based on Mutual

Trust & Respect for Each Opinion

Globalization Should Go Hand in Hand with

Democracy

Should Be Pure Business With No Colonialist Design

What this Free Market Means for African Countries? Is

the Outsourcing All Benefit to Them or to Asian

Countries?

Impact of Globalization in African Countries (2)

KnockingWalls Down Sounds Like Colonial Era in the Event of African Countries Remaining Weak & Under Paternalism from the West

Globalization Can Be Viewed As the Process of Strengthning the Hegemony of the West ThroughScientific PowerEconomic PowerTheologic & Religious PowerCultural PowerCrowned By the Military Power

Is Africa Capable of Hegemonism?

Yes Africa Can Be An Hegemonic EntityAfrica Has ALL it NEEDS to LEAD THE WORLD. Since the 15th Century It Has Been A Gorgeous Woman With Generous Breast Everybody Wanted to

Court…

SO WHAT CONCRETELY DETERMINES NON-PROGRESS IN AFRICA?

POLITICAL FACTOR

ECONOMIC FACTOR

ARMED CONFLICTS

DEMOCRACY: (1) A Value and (2) An

Attribute

THE NOTION OF WEALTH: (1) Monetary, (2) Material, & (3)

Cultural

Socialization to the WAR CULTURE

FUNCTIONAL THEORY VSCONFLICT THEORY

Status Quo Vs Change

A SCANDALOUS PARADOX:

Potentially Wealthy But Poorest

ECONOMY OF WEAPONRY

& Self-Destruction

Irrelevance of the CONCEPT OF AID

Persistence of CORE

HINTERLAND THEORIES

THE CYCLE OF CIVIL WARS: Supply,

Recruitment, Destruction,

Reconstruction

AFRICAN EXECUTIVE

Spread Out Around the World

Hurtful Partnership: (1) DICTATORSHIP

AND (2) NEOCOLONIAL ORTHODOXY

FEARSOME WEAPONS: Rape & Sexually Transmitted

Infections

Political Determinants

Economic Determinants

Armed Conflicts in AfricaHow The Bullet That Kills Here, Feeds Over

There…

THERE IS NO CONCLUSION AT THIS POINT OF

REFLECTION

SOCIAL PROGRESS RESULTS IN

RESPONSIBILITY FROM AFRICANS

THEMSELVES

GLOBALIZATION MIGHT BE BENEFICIAL BUT

IS MOSTLY PITYLESS…