Postmodern cynic appraisals of Africa’s geriatric culture of social development in the age of western globalisation and millennial consciousness
| dc.contributor.author | Adebayo Abidemi Olufemi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-29T14:39:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-29T14:39:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Abstract The paper interrogates the sub-culture of the older generation of the African population and aspires to ascertain if this class of the African population can drive the development of the continent. The research is motivated by the control that the older generation in Africa asserts as they by the virtue of their mature ages and experiences are at the helms of affairs in divergent walks of life on the African continent, particularly in political administration. The paper employs Hollis Chenery's model of Structural-Change Theory which emphasises the patterns of development as the appropriate approach to economic development of a nation as the Structural Change Theory maintains that many countries of the world acquires wealth through different channels. In Africa, a sizeable number of the people in position of authority especially in governance are in the geriatric category of the population and do characteristically exhibit such tendencies as inordinate avarice, ostentation, self supremacy, suppression of the views of women, retributive vengeance with African voodoo, monarchial absolutism, superstition, financial prayer miracle, multiple births, as well as the beliefs that elders should not be queried on their deeds and actions. All of these attributes characterise the traditional African culture, and go against the modern global cultural and attitudinal principles such as financial prudence, hard work, fundamental human rights and science. The social and economic development of the African continent may be stalled and its progress hampered as long as those at the helms of affairs on the continent refuse to approach governance with postmodern approaches and attitudes. There is indeed the need for overt repudiation and elimination of such unprogressive and unproductive traits such as avarice, abuse of women, self supremacy, superstition, conventionalism, and ostentation to mention but a few. Keywords: African culture, Postmodernism, Social development, Old generation, Globalisation | |
| dc.identifier.uri | 10.13140/RG.2.2.34844.05765 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.run.edu.ng/handle/123456789/4327 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | HUMANUS DISCOURSE | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 3; 3 | |
| dc.title | Postmodern cynic appraisals of Africa’s geriatric culture of social development in the age of western globalisation and millennial consciousness | |
| dc.type | Article |