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Nigerian lawmakers violate country’s law, ignore PWD’s needs despite spending N42 billion on renovationsSPECIAL REPORT: How disinformation fueled ethnic tensions in KadunaBlood on UniformsNigerian lawmakers violate country’s law, ignore PWD’s needs despite spending N42 billion on renovationsSPECIAL REPORT: How disinformation fueled ethnic tensions in KadunaSports FeaturesThe day, 17 November marks four years since Professor Peter Palmer Ekeh peacefully transited in Buffalo, New York, United...
But Ekeh’s most celebrated, cited and discussed works are: “Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement” ; “Social Exchange Theory: The Two Traditions” ; and “Social Anthropology and the Two Contrasting Uses of Tribalism in Africa” . Secondly, unlike the pre-colonial African state or metropolitan state which is an organ for the promotion of the interests of the internal ruling classes, the current African state is primarily and basically a machine for the promotion of the interests of European forces and their African allies, not really the interests of African people.
This was not the case in the pre-colonial African societies. In those, citizens believed they owned the state and their ownership is manifest. Whereas in the colonial period, the forces of imperialism came to Africa on the supposition that the African state belonged to their rulers and the masses were inconsequential. In the post-colonial era, most African leaders and their allies see the state, its resources and wealth as their personal properties.
It equally accounts for why popular participation in politics is suppressed in favour of politics of state control; why people’s freedom, human rights, and control over their governments is undermined; and why the politics of development is replaced by the politics of primitive accumulation and monopolistic acquisition!
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