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Okunini Ọbádélé Kambon posted an update in the group
4 years agoAfrikan Business and Economics 4 years ago · 
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https://abibitumitv.com/watch/stealing-africa-why-poverty-documentary_gMJXzGUXmoFuILL.html
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The current system of national political economy (I do not separate tertiary education, politics, political science, public administration, public policy and macro/microeconomics) currently in place across Afrika, the Caribbean, etc. is designed and exists solely for this purpose and this purpose alone. Hence, the neocolonial nation-states are rentier-states under a managerial leadership class. No tertiary institution of education in Afrika, the Caribbean even has the courses, subject matter, methodology to even begin to define the problem and provide the biophysical, cognitive, affective, and spiritual implements necessary to create and implement the necessary solution. There are public policy, public administration, macroeconomic, etc. institutional lessons in the organization of the political economy of Kemet, Kush, Wagadu, Nyeni and Songhai which could come into play in proper nation-building. Currently the existing institutions replete with policies on anti-corruption are simply system improvement methods, reform. The very disciplinary language which facilitates content literacy in the academic disciplines (and their public policy implementation) of macro/microeconomics, politics etc. are mechanistic and reductionist, as well as being the cognitive infrastructure of imperialism. That is to say economics as now written about, studied and taught is a how-to of implementing a process of externally oriented wealth extraction. External standards of value, external control and assessment of the price of the national currency, externally oriented and subordinated domestic national economy, continued maintenance of the European reoriented international sector of the national economy. An adjustment of institutions and improvement of national position in the global economy will not appreciably alleviate a situation where 80% are unemployed. Even altering the situation such that the 80% unemployed were in time employed by local business would not appreciably alter the situation the periodic global shocks to the current global economy would do then as it does now. The abandonment of the rural areas of a country in favor of migration to neocolonial urban centers for wages is neither desirable nor sustainable. Far to much to get into in a short response for would need to do a session(s) strictly on the current situation (contemporary case studies) and problem-definition- How did we get here, then session(s) on a reassessment and reorientation of the methodology for developing solutions, then multiple sessions on a deep-dive into the heart of the macro/microeconomics of solving the existing problem(s) i.e., policy development and constructing alternatives, then on implementation, nurture & protection. But as a starting point in thinking I am of the perspective that one would need to begin with iwdt and Abw [Disassociation, Separation] in the natural aspect of ecology and the forced action of monumental construction.-
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Sounds like you’re been giving this all a lot of thought.
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Between my studies in the Doctoral Program in Public Policy & Urban Studies, the efforts at reorientating the Masters of Research Methodology and the Masters of Community Development at the erstwhile University in Tanzania, and looking at the Political Economy of Kmt, Ks, Wagadu, Nyeni and Songhai on the one hand and the Commerce, Military Campaigns and Political Economy of Krt Hdst for the book I’m writing, the subject runs throughout it, in fragments of texts etc.
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Sounds like it will be BlackPowerful!
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Clicked on the “Read More” link to see the remainder of the comments from @dukuzumurenyi but the all the text becomes hidden instead. Seems like a tech issue.
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@dukuzumurenyi Wow! your brief overview is fantastic and clarifying! This sentence really spoke to me: “Currently the existing institutions replete with policies on anti-corruption are simply system improvement methods, reform.” How do you see the energy sector in Ghana (gas, electricity) operating in the neo-liberal context?
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Hard as the well meaning Ghanaians within the energy sector may try it will (given the predominance of Neoliberal thinking, Capitalism and the Fetishization of Eurasian culture, and the overriding infrastructure of the European Market system), and is replicating the industry as it operates in Nigeria and in other neocolonial rentier states such as Niger (which began extraction 2011) and South Sudan. A model for revolutionary social change in the operation of the industry resides in how Eritrea controls and manages its natural resources, actually it entire nation-state. Another would have been the plan developed by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti (it was the actual impetus for the US removal of him from power in 2004).
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@dukuzumurenyi one of the reasons I’m interested in hearing more is b/c I work in a design space that focuses on design for “social innovation”, “equity” or “community empowerment”, etc. I know that all of my tools come out of a Euro-centric perspective but I lack the language to explain to Africans, who are eager to adopt “design thinking”, that they would be replicating yt supermacist thinking and priorities and that all “solutions” will be prettier versions of past failures. For example, McKinsey’s solution for lack of housing in South African townships would be to propose building homes out of upcycled plastics. They would never propose dismantling the legal frameworks for land ownership which would solve 100s of problems instead of just 2 or 3. I have more to say, but I’ll stop here for now.
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Mhenga Amos N. Wilson calls courses of action such as that proposed by McKinsey remediational. I term them Remediational Public Policies and we find them proposed any where global actions reside, no matter whether neocolonies within the imperial centers such as in the US or UK or in the neocolonial nation-states on the continent. The missing policy even in books are Preventative Policies. As the suprastructure of the entire social system never comes into question in elementry, secondary or tertiary schooling it is difficult to near impossible for many that have under gone the disciplinary training of the schooling institutions to ‘see’ the total picture. Add to that that the primary thinking methodology employed is rote memorization with smidgings of pseudo-critical thinking and the difficulties are multiplied exponentially. In ‘professional settings’ a method that I have personally found effective to begin (in only a simplistic fashion due to the limited time generally involved) to bore through Euro-trash with our people has been work seminars, workshops, etc. where in the language of Public Policy Design and Implementation I can take the time to introduce some of the concepts of Applied General Systems Theory and demonstrate the application of the Systems Approach, thereby bringing in the total structure of the social system, deconstructing that aspect it that pertains to the organization, addressing actual power, how those with power engage in Systems Design Thinking first and then after implementation employ Systems Improvement techniques to maintain their work over time. Then taking some case studies of the policies of those with power- their intentions and outcomes and juxtaposing them to policies and ‘solutions’ that this Black organization is attempting and noting the similarities, differences and power constants. Black colonialists and the youth who seek to join them in their affliction of Capitalist Hoarding fight tooth and nail against this approach, but one will me that select few who can be prepared for the ‘War of the Flea’ and Power Seizure.
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@dukuzumurenyi thank you for sharing these useful details esp your points on the missing Preventative Policies and the need for folx to understand our current situation as a system designed to produce the very predictable outcomes we experience such as Black death, poor Black health, higher natal death, pollution, etc. I think your characterization of what it takes to see the entire system is spot on as it’s clear to me, at least, that a) I have been working at the System Improvement level, b) design is being used to make power more difficult to “see”, and c) US, UK, Aus, EU etc humanities education focuses attention on just a few parts of what I call the Hyperparasite, a narrow view that leads to endless circular arguments about “racism”, “sexism”, “ableism”, “capitalism”, “patriarchy”. In my view, anti-Black racism is a tactic, or just one component of the Hyperparasite, it is not the entire machine. Would love to hear more about your research. Meanwhile, here is a paper that speaks to how western eurasians deepened their capacity for violence in order to acquire more land (which had and has dire implications for Africa). https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.4.165
“No other continent in recorded history fought so frequently, for such long periods, killing such a high proportion of its population. When it comes to
destroying human life, the atomic bomb and machine guns maybe highly efficient, but nothing rivaled the impact of early modern Europe’s armies spreading hunger and disease.” (p 168) Gifts of Mars: Warfare and Europe’s Early Rise to Riches
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@kwadwotokunbo yes, the text expands for me now. Same browser. Not sure what the issue was when I logged in earlier.
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