Globalization and Its Discontents: An African Tragedy

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Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 13-18

  Apter, David E ^a  

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1. The World Bank's World Development Report for 1997 speaks convincingly of the need to reinvigorate "the state's capacity" and calls for an activist rather than a minimalist state. But how to accomplish this remains something of a mystery. See The State in a Changing World (Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 27.
2. Not so long ago many things said today of Africa were said about China, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
3. Nigeria provides one example. North-South relations remain tense. Despite a nominally democratic regime, the country remains hostage to northern military officers. Corruption remains rampant with the concentration of wealth in the Abuja area largely a rake-off from oil revenues extracted from the south. Meanwhile, Makoko, a Lagos slum, is pitched on a swamp. Most people who manage somehow to survive do so with few of life's basic necessities. It might as well be on the other end of the earth. No wonder that the Yoruba and Ibo peoples in the south of the country began talk of secession. New York Times (July 20, 1998).
4. See Andrew Apter, Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society (University of Chicago Press, 1992).