Jokey Horse-Jockey North-South Rapport

Nkwazi Mhango

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No doubt. North-South relationship involving poor and rich countries is very convoluted; based and built on exploitative, unequal and unfair equilibria. It is purely jockey-horse-like connubium that serves one party as it disserves the other. This is why deconstructing and detoxifying this relationship is sine qua non. The author argues that the parties in this relationship must revisit it to make sure it equally benefits both for the benefit of the whole world. Importantly, the major question posed is: Why did the two global halves maintain and tolerate such toxic rapport while knowingly it is but colonial and unjust? The question is answered in this academic treatise which asks the parties to hark back; and thereby do justice to each other by viewing themselves as humans with shared needs and future whose lesson from the past may buttress them to be major thespians in realising world peace. This is because their parasitic relationship has fueled many conflicts revolving around the struggle for controlling resources in the South in order to sell to the North.

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• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 07 juin 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9789956550371
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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JOKEY HORSEJOCKEY NORTHSOUTH RAPPORT Diagnostic-cum-Prognostic-Academic Perspectives on Who Truly Depends on Whom

NKWAZI N. MHANGO

Jokey Horse-Jockey North-South Rapport: Diagnostic-cum-Prognostic- Academic Perspectives on Who Truly Depends on Whom Nkwazi Nkuzi Mhango

L a ng a a R esea rch & P u blishing CIG Mankon, Bamenda

Publisher: LangaaRPCIG Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group P.O. Box 902 Mankon Bamenda North West Region Cameroon [e-mail] www.langaa-rpcig.net Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective [e-mail] www.africanbookscollective.com

ISBN-10: 9956-550-36-1

ISBN-13: 978-9956-550-36-4 ©Nkwazi Nkuzi Mhango 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or be stored in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher

Table of Contents Acknowledgments…………………………………………v Foreword………………………………...…………………vii List of Abbreviations………………………………………ix Chapter One North-South Link to Conflict, Poverty and Underdevelopment……………..………………………… 1 i) Introduction……………….………………………………1 ii) The Use of Interventionism as an Exploitative Strategy…………….……...…………………… 12 iii) Free Market as a Ruse to Penetrate and Exploit the Global South…………………..……………22 Chapter Two Nature of Exploitative Relationship……...………………25 i) The Economies of Dominance and Exploitation………………………………….………… 32 ii) It Takes Two to Tango: Two-Part Liability…….………… 43 iii) The Role of Technology in the North-South Relationship…………………..………………50 iv) Is It Democracy or Demicracy? ……….………………… 58 Chapter Three When Dependency Hampers Interdependency…………69 i) Inevitable Interdependency Partnering and Partnership……………………………...……………… 75 ii) Essentialised and Internalised Colonialism………..……… 79 iii) Global Warming as a Unifying Force……………..………85 Chapter Four What Worked and What Did Not in the North-South Rapport…………………………...………… 91 i) Liberal Peace: A Quick Fix……………………..………… 105 ii) Is aid a Panacea or a Mere Panegyric? …………………… 109 iii) New Economic Model and New Superstructure………… 115 iv) Meaningful and Practical Policy Change……….………… 119

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Chapter Five New Take That the Global South Needs to Embark on………………………………………………125 i) Unreservedly Addressing Colonial Legacy………………… 126 ii) Rethink Human Needs and Human Rights………..………132 Chapter Six Part two: Two Case Studies: Africa, the Role of Definition and Divisionism…………………………… 137 Troubling Myth of Africa’s [Under-] Development………… 137 i) Introduction……………………………………………… 137 ii) Troubling the Predicament of [Under-] Development………………………………………..……… 139 iii) Doctrinaire Development………………………..……… 156 iv) Wake-up Call for Africa as a Specimen for the Latter………………………………………..……… 158 v) Conclusion………………………………………..………165 Chapter Seven Case two: Violence, Power, Politics and (Anti-) Development in Africa…………………………………… 169 i) Introduction……………………………………………… 169 ii) Proxy Recolonisation and Extension of Divide-and-Rule…………………………………..………… 174 iii) The role of Parties to Conflicts in Resolving the Conflict……………………………………… 178 iv) Ethnoconflicts and Resources…………………………… 182 v) How the Former Reinventing New people and Creating Animosity in the Latter………...……… 186 vi) Assimilation Inhalation and Perpetuation………..……… 193 vii) Conclusion: What Should Be Done? …………….………195 References………………………………………………… 201

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Acknowledgments I acknowledge the humungous contribution my wife, partner and the best friend ever, Nesaa, made in the preparations of this volume. Listening to dry academic stuff has never been amusing and easy, especially for the person whose profession is completely different. Our young children, Ng’ani, Nkuzi and Nkwazi Jr. too, had a lot to offer however unbeknownst to them. Nesaa used to take them for swimming lessons alone in summer while I was busy researching and writing. More importantly, I acknowledge exceptionally sincere and bottomless support I got from my brother, friend and mentor, Professor Sean Byrne (Manitoba University) and with his wife Professor Jessica Senehi who have always stood by me. Jessica and Sean, I am proud of you really. My brother and friend professor Eliakim Sibanda did a lot to challenge my rationale. So, too, my brother, Professor Munyaradzi Mawere (Great Zimbabwe University) did a great job to keep on encouraging me to take the task up, apart from reviewing this book. Ndugu Willy M. Mutunga, PhD, former Kenya’s Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court has always been instrumental to me. Thanks brother. As a tradition, I acknowledge my readers who became friends and part of my family thanks to reading my ideas and some commenting on them such as Sirili Akko (Arusha-Tanzania) and Salih Ibrahim Hassan aka Mr. Darfur, (Winnipeg MB), among others. I, also, acknowledge PhD students of the Arthur V. Mauro Centre, St. Paul, University of Manitoba (2015), especially those who were interested in the Africa affairs, particularly my best friend Chuck Egerton for many discussions we had on Africa and what can be done to address conflicts, poverty and underdevelopment resulting from North-South exploitative Jokey Horse-Jockey North- South Rapport. Similarly, I acknowledge my friend Ray Loewen, president of the West Park Motor, Altona, MB, Canada who helped me in the coming book on Terrorism. Ray, you are great man.

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Foreword I must make a clean breast from the outset. I have personal as well as academic interests in the topic this volume deals with. My aim is to tweak or add up to the dialogue that has been going on for many years since the Global North invaded and occupied the Global South under colonialism and thereafter, up until now, under neocolonialism andjokey-horse-jockey rapport. Being one of billions of victims of the exploitative nature of the relationship between the duo, my experience and views can add up to see to it that the said relationship is deconstructed, reconstructed for the peace of the world. I, therefore, must state it clearly that one of the aims of this volume, apart from contributing the dialogue academically, seeks to propose some solutions to the problems revolving around the relationship between two unequal equals; if I may use the term. Hypothetically, I can comfortably argue that many conflicts the latter experiences have the hallmarks of colonialism and unfair relationship and coexistence all perpetrated by the former. In tackling the problems resulting from this exploitative and somehow nugatory relationship namely conflict, poverty and underdevelopment, the book looks atpraxisand theories seeking to decontaminate, demythologise, deconstruct, and reconstruct the relationship in order to usher equality, equity, justice and parity in.

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List of Abbreviations ACHPR African Charter on Human and People’s Rights ACP Africa Caribbean and Pacific AFP Agence France Presse ANC African National Congress AU African Union BHN Basic Human Needs CAR Central African Republic CIA Central Intelligence Agency CNN Cable News Network CPI Consumer Price Index DRC Democratic Republic of Congo EFF Economic Freedom Fighters EU European Union FDI Foreign Direct Investment FRIDE Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior GBV Gender Based Violence GDP Gross Domestic Product GFI Government Funded Investment GLR Great Lakes Region GM Genetically Modified GNP Gross National Product HIPC Heavily Indebted Poor Countries HSBC Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation ICC International Criminal Justice ICIJ International Consortium of Investigative  Journalists ICT Information Communication Technology IFI International Financial Institutions IGAD Intergovernmental Authority for Development IMF International Monetary Fund KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken MCC Millennium Challenge Corporate MDG Millennium Development Goal

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