An Historical Assessment and Analysis of Economic Imperialism in West Africa

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dc.contributor.authorOmobowale, Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale
dc.contributor.authorSawadogo, Natewinde
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-21T22:11:01Z
dc.date.available2023-05-21T22:11:01Z
dc.date.issued2021-07-08
dc.descriptionJournal of Labor and Society (2021) 1-17en_US
dc.description.abstractThe West African political economy has been shaped by the policies, decisions and actions of dominant European imperialist countries since about over 500 years. Starting with imperial merchant capitalism along the West African coast in the 16th Century and French gradual acquisition of Senegal as a colony as from 1677, West Africa has remained under the imperialist hold. West Africa remains economically dependent on its former colonial masters despite more than 60 years since the countries started gaining independence. The consequences of economic imperialism on West Africa have included exploitative resource extraction, proxy and resource influenced civil wars, illegal trade in natural resources, mass poverty, and external migration of skilled workers necessary for national development. The world sees and broadcasts poverty, starvation, conflict and Saharan migration in the West African sub-continent, but hardly reports the exploitative imperialistic processes that have produced poverty and misery in West Africa in particular and across sub-Saharan Africa in generalen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipACE: Environment, CEA-CEFORGRISen_US
dc.identifier.citationOmobowale, A. O., & Sawadogo, N. (2021). An Historical Assessment and Analysis of Economic Imperialism in West Africa, Journal of Labor and Society (published online ahead of print 2021). doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/24714607-bja10020en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1163/24714607-bja10020
dc.identifier.urihttp://datad.aau.org/handle/123456789/1882
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBRILLen_US
dc.subjectColonialismen_US
dc.subjectneo-colonialismen_US
dc.subjecteconomic imperialismen_US
dc.subjectanglophoneen_US
dc.subjectfrancophoneen_US
dc.subjectlusophone West Africaen_US
dc.subjectCEFORGRISen_US
dc.subjectJoseph Ki-Zerbo University and Ouaga II Universityen_US
dc.subjectBurkina Fasoen_US
dc.titleAn Historical Assessment and Analysis of Economic Imperialism in West Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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