”And the green hills of Africa have come out of the past, and out of the imagination, into the present, the troubling world.” James Baldwin (1962)
In his concept of “Flows,” Arjun Appadurai (2000) observed that in today’s globalizing world, things – “ideas and ideologies, people and goods, images and messages, technologies and techniques” – are constantly in motion and that globalization is an inherently disjunctive process that produces inequalities, injustices and problems with governance. It is in this broad understanding of globalization – the expansion and intensification of linkages and flows of people, goods, capital, ideas, and cultures across national borders – that we interrogate the position of Africa.
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