Globalisation and the state : implications for the state of human rights in Africa
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2015-01
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University of Zululand
Abstract
This article interrogates, in theoretical cum descriptive fashion, the linkage(s) between neo-liberal globalisation,
the state, and the state of human rights, using sub-Sahara Africa as a research backdrop. Drawing majorly from
secondary data, it found out that the post-colonial states in Africa have been at the mercies of this technologically
driven post- cold war phenomenon. It argues that globalisation has incapacitated African states and thus unable to
safeguard and protect the human rights of their citizens
The article recommended that the state, the epicentre of the socio-economic space in Africa, needs to be
reconstituted via an autochthonous process.
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Peer reviewed article published under Inkanyiso, Volume 7, Issue 1, Jan 2015, p. 53 - 59
Keywords
globalisation, neoliberalism,, human rights in Africa
Citation
Basiru, A.S., 2015. Globalisation and the state: implications for the state of human rights in Africa. Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 7(1), pp.53-59.