WILBERFORCE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (WJSS)
ISSN: 2504 – 9232
Volume 7, No. 1, June 2022
Pages 144-175
DOI: 10.36108/wjss/2202.70.0180
GLOBALIZATION AND CONFLICT IN AFRICA: INSIGHTS FROM THE NIGER DELTA CRISIS
PREYE KURO INOKOBA (Ph.D) & ALALIBO SINIKIEM JOHNSON (Ph.D)
Abstract
Undoubtedly, Africa is one continent that has had its fair share of the impact of the all-embracing and contradictory process of Globalization. Against the position of neo-liberal scholars and apologists who present globalization as a remedy to all socio-economic and political challenges, the African reality has not been encouraging and favourable especially its linkage to different theatres of conflict on the continent. It is in the light of this that the research studied the interplay and impact between globalization and conflict on the people, societies and states of Africa. To achieve this objective, the study makes use of secondary data. And to give theoretical direction to the research work the study is based on the Marxian Structural Conflict Theory. To concretize our argument, the Niger Delta resource and environmental conflict situation is used as the papers’ case study. After an exhaustive analysis of the available data, the discourse comes to the conclusion that globalization has acted and continues to act as a stimulant to the various conflict situations in Africa. And that this interplay has brought a lot of hardship, pain and agony to the people and societies of the African continent.
Keywords: Globalisation, Conflict, Neoliberal Policies, Underdevelopment, Africa, Niger Delta.