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The Challenges Of Globalization In Africa

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“Crimes against humanity are not African problems; they are global ones and demand global solutions. There is a fundamental responsibility to protect civilian life that the Sudanese government has abdicated and the international community has not yet fully assumed”. The African continent faces lot of challenges on account of the phenomenon of globalization (DR. ASOGWA FELIX CHINWE). Tough the concept of globalization is difficult to define; scholars gave different definitions of this concept depending on their perceptions that can be geographical, academic or ideological. For example, the world faces climate change caused by globalization. Science revealed the speed of climate change so it has been taken into consideration and confirmed that it has serious implication for the international security. Climate change reduced water availability, food security and increased diseases. Consequently, it caused forced migration, raise tensions and generate new conflicts. Nevertheless, Africa is the continent that is the least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions but it is the continent most at risk of climate change because of its climate dependent sectors (Brown and Crawford, DATE p.87) …show more content…

While, for the Third World, especially African countries, globalization is a dangerous process that increase poverty and inequality within and among states and disempowered the weak. As Lonsdale (Date, p.195) phrases it “globalization can take highly unequal forms”. For Africa it is not yet clear if globalization means an increased openness to financial flows and trade that improve the social development and equity or that lead to higher inequality and poverty on the continent (Alemayehu Geda, 2006

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