Out Of Africa Theory: The Causes Of Globalization In Africa

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“Out of Africa theory” which is the most widely accepted theory about the modern human origins tells us that the Humans first evolved in African Continent and Most of the Human Evolution happened in this Black Continent. African continent to which human roots belongs, saw the most brutal suppression of one Human Being by another. Africa, which had a well mature democratic tribal administration, today consists of a bunch of failed states having huge trust deficit among the people and the state. Causes of this failure story of Africa includes hasty privatisation policies, the growing influence of non-state forces, degraded democratic conventions and institutions, pollution of cultural and social values etc. Slavery and colonialism of more than …show more content…

Yet the boon of possessing these resources has converted into bane for the African People. The phenomenon of Globalization has resulted into a major cause of the conflicts in Africa. African nations do possess natural resources, but because of their technological and scientific backwardness they do not have the capacity to harness these resources. As, a result these nations are forced to invite Multinational Corporations (MNCs) to do the Exploration and Production of these Resources. These MNCs hold enormous money power to manipulate the economy of the African Nations. Vast Natural resources, cheap labour and huge consumer markets of Africa are crucial to their economic plans. Due to the fragile leadership of African nations, these MNCs resorts to large scale exploitation of national resources, corruption, violating environmental laws and manipulating governments and media. Sometimes these MNCs also procure weapons and provide arms training to both the Government and the Insurgents Forces. Their interests are better served by the incessant wars and conflicts than the peaceful conditions. When the African Governments tries to borrow loans and financial aids from the Financial Organisations such as World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) they are forced to open up their economies, devalue their currencies, remove subsidies and liberalise their trade policies, all these steps are generally aimed at favouring these Western MNCs. These measures of Liberalisation have resulted into destruction of the Domestic Industries and large scale Unemployment in the African Society. To fulfil their economic greed MNCs have used exploitative Measures which resulted into the destruction of Tribal areas, pollution of water sources such as rivers, large scale deforestation and destruction of the ecosystem. Globalisation has made the economic

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