Africa, the global order and the politics of aid
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2022
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Taylor & Francis Group
Abstract
A strong, but under-explored linkage exists between the current global order, world
poverty and the politics of aid. Exploring this linkage, which is the key concern of
this article, is crucial for a fuller understanding of the symbiotic injustice of the global
order and the politics of aid. Using a conceptual thought experiment that portrays
the framework of post-war global order as an intrinsically unjust “Global Games
Arena”, I attempt a “vivisection” of the problematic relationship between the global
order and the politics of aid. In the real world, I follow decolonial scholars like Adom
Getachew and Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò to argue that the modern and current global order
and its social, economic and political structures are founded on the unfair gains of
trans-Atlantic slavery and colonialism. The empirical and analytical consequence
of this situation, the article shows, is that to make aid effective or altogether end
its penurious impact in Africa in particular, would require, at first, a jettisoning or
remaking of the current international order. In other words, I argue that aid would
not be necessary in the absence of a world order that in fact requires aid to maintain a
system of global injustice and inequality.
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Research Article