Decolonisation and Deradicalisation of Globalisation Extremism Paradigm in African States, 1999-c.2023
Keywords:
Decolonisation, Deradicalisation, Globalisation, Extremism, Paradigm AfricanAbstract
Decolonisation is the expunction of varied dreadful colonial radical ideological mentalities and sentiments injected on Africa States through prolonged period of varied European and Western imperialistic dominations. Plethora of dreadful colonial vestiges emulated by Africa State leaders and subjects, still reflect during the post-independence epoch, and thus create a tapestry antithetical to African socio-cultural, political, economic and religious coexistence. This is typical of the sordid experiences evident in Nigeria, Mali, Cameroun, Libya, Liberia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burkina Fasso, Sudan, Sahrawi, Egypt, Niger, Gabon and South Africa among others. Between the 1999 and 2023, African States has already been deeply entrenched through effervescent robust interactions with globalisation. Due to its extremism, the phenomenon injected the conundrums of racial superiority, economic inequalities, and unequal gains among the recipient African countries. Howbeit, its corrosive effects had resulted to unending truculent activities (Boko Haram, ISWAP, ISIS etc) arising from alien fundamental fragility of governance, and antithetical administrative system. In fact, the extremity of globalisation continued to engender excruciating poverty ambience, sophisticated corruption, armed banditry, kidnapping for ransom, forceful levy, illegal gold mining, miming, indiscriminate killings, gender based sexual violence (GBSV), and incessant coup de’tat in African States. This consequently leads to asymmetrical migrations, internal displacement of persons (IDPs) and redirection of the varied African countries limited resources toward violent conflicts mitigation, management and misplacement of policies priority. In an attempt at decolonisation and de-radicalisation, the paper suggests the extension of equal gains of globalisation in recipient countries; de-emphasization of racial superiority; reinvention and reintegration of Afrocentrism to suit extant socio-cultural system etc. From the prism, the paper adopted secondary source of historical data collection and qualitative context analysis.