AFRASO-Lecture by Prof. Joseph C. Agbakoba (University of Nigeria): Asian Influence on African Agency in Relation to Development: Challenges and Possibilities

21. April 2016
Campus Westend, Seminarhaus, room SH 2.108, 4 p.m. (c.t.)

This paper discusses the actual and potential influences of Asia on the development of Africa in terms of agency with specific reference to Nigeria. Many scholars have already pointed out that the structure of the economic relations between Asia and Africa is basically the same as that between Africa and the West. However, social and cultural relations and dynamics are not the same and in this regard Africa-Asia relations and dynamics impact differently on African perceptions of the world, imaginaries, knowledge formation and the capabilities and directions of self-transformation.