The Overlooked Spiritual Factor in Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5016401 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Opoku Agyeman (University of Dar es Salaam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 481-488 |
| Publication date | 1977-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x0000207x |
| OpenAlex | W2072350294 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
There are various explanatory analyses of the instability and persistent underdevelopment in Africa. The general presumption points to a case of arrested development to begin with - the product of slavery and colonialism - a retardation that constitutes the inauspicious legacy on which newly independent African states have to build. It is argued that this ill-augury of colonial inheritance exerts a momentum of its own, intensifying in the post-independence era the cancerous growth of ethnic fissures, constitutional disequilibrations, economic disasters, and fresh dominations
Colonialism · Development economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Independence (probability theory) · Inheritance (genetic algorithm) · Political economy · Political science · Presumption · Sociology · Underdevelopment · African cultural and philosophical studies · History · Law · Religion, Society, and Development · World Systems and Global Transformations
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |