Decolonization of policy process and not the policy of decolonization

Year 2020, Volume: 14 Issue: 1, 126 - 137, 25.06.2020

Samuel Okafor

Abstract

Colonialism and neo-colonialism as socioeconomic and political realities among the third world nations were designed to operate through the logic of socioeconomic thinking and activities of the indigenous people. Ignorance of this has made the colonized vulnerable to the complex and fluid networks of colonialism, and neo-colonialism programs as designed by the colonialists and neo-colonialists. Most of these nations have put forward policy of decolonization without thinking about decolonization of their domestic and international policy postures. By so doing, most of these nations have become more vulnerable to their former colonialists as well as the entrant neo-colonialists. Nigeria, as one of the nations operating in the raiders of their former colonial masters and the entrant neo-colonialists, has been subjected to perpetual dependency and failure due to the ignorance of the fluid structure and networks of neo-colonialism. The fact, as this paper specifically aims to prove, is that there is no way socioeconomic logical framework on the platform of imperialism paradigm will produce genuine and sustainable development. As such, the paper modelled the colonialists’ socioeconomic policy logical framework, neo-colonialists’ socioeconomic policy logical framework, and the decolonization of socioeconomic policy logical framework in Nigeria for sustainable development.

Keywords

Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Socioeconomic logical framework, Policy of Decolonization, Decolonization of policy process

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