UNIVERSITY OF THE GAMBIA
School of Arts and Sciences Public Lecture
Dr. Baba Galleh Jallow
The Copycat State: Blind mimicry, neo-exceptionalism and the politics of failure in Africa
Since independence, African governments have uncritically mimicked those practices of the nation-state system that suit their purposes and practiced a sort of African neo-exceptionalism that allows them to monopolize the political space and plunder or neglect their countries’ human and material resources. The result has been a failure of the nation-state system and a culture of chronic underdevelopment and poverty in Africa. This lecture examines the peculiarities of the copycat state and highlights possible alternatives to what has effectively become an unimaginative politics of failure and dependence in post-colonial Africa.
Date: Thursday 6th July 2017
Venue: Faculty of Law, MDI Road, UTG
Time: 10am
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