African nations: a pathological system waiting for social work surgical intervention

Abstract

Africa, conceptually, geographically, politically, economically, religiously and socially is in bondage and this bondage is summarized as pathological condition. The pathological condition of Africa is the outcome of cumulative of the attacks by the empire builders, slave traders, colonialists and the neocolonialists. The attacks and their consequences on the African system have resulted to the continuous failure of the socioeconomic, political and institutional lives of the African system with such symptoms and social indicators like political dependence on the colonialists and neocolonialists, dependence on foreign economic aids and borrowing galore, social segregation and self-hatred among the African population, modern slavery by willingness, political instability, religious exploitation, etc. Over the years scholars, political elites and other categories among African population have tried to deal with the pathological condition of the African nations however, the situation seems to have defied every strategy. This defiance of the pathological condition of the African nations to almost every effort to reverse it lie in the way and manner the adventure of colonialism and neocolonialism was designed and implemented. Colonialism and neocolonialism were institutionalised and eventually sustained using the indigenous population. As such, decolonization can only be successful if it is institutionalised and operated by the elite class with deep knowledge of the problem and deep relationship with the African population. Hence, the social workers with their multidimensional discipline and profession as well as deep interaction with the population are strategically handy in mounting and sustaining decolonization agenda in the 21st century Africa. The aforementioned is the focus and interest of this paper.

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Okafor  S. O. (2023). African nations: a pathological system waiting for social work surgical intervention. African Journal of Social Work, 13(3), 127-135. https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ajsw.v13i3.1

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