'Nigerians, Africans must wake up and stop this globalisation!'
Editor’s note: All the central planks of the process of globalization have been implemented in Africa over the past decade-and-a-half.
Adejo Usman, the NAIJ.com guest contributor explores the effects of globalisation on Africa and Nigeria.
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O! AFRICA: where are you heading to? Where is the hope of future children? What will then save Africa?
O! AFRICA: where is your pride? The glory of Africa has been stuck in limbo; Africa is not in heaven and not in hell; not even on the earth,neither in the sky.
O Africa, why? Misconstruing westernisation for civilisation and fixed into false modernity. Civilization which is an organised culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political or technical development.
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Collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behaviour and/or a high level of development. On the other hand, westernisation is the process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.
Westernization has effaced African culture and tradition thereby trapped Africa in coma. Africa lost total values; everywhere, corruption of all sorts, Culture is the arts, customs, lifestyles, background and habits that characterise a particular society or nation.
The beliefs, values, behaviours and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
Where is African culture? How can the culture we are having as at today be described? African culture or Western culture? False modernization.
Tradition is a part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family. A commonly held system, the act of delivery into hands of another. Which tradition is of Africa? Western or African? False modernity.
Africans are neither Africans nor Westerners. Motsok Pheko is correct when he asserted that the effects of colonialism past and present (neocolonialism) are visible all over Africa. It is not an overstatement when Eden Kodjo, describes the condition of African as torn away from his past , propelled into a universe fashioned from outside that suppresses his values, and dumbfounded by a cultural invasion that marginalises him.
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Is today the deformed image of others? (West) The conspiracy of neocolonialism by powerful countries against Africa by the use of economic pressure, political suppression and cultural dominance has trashed Africa yet Africans and his leaders are lethargic to juvenescence of the continent. Wake up, Africans!
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