African nations struggle against corruption, crippling economic exploitation, massive underdevelopment of human capital (particularly of females), scarcities of vital resources, and campaigns of genocide rooted in ethnic conflict
Ethnic conflict(as used in political philosophy and ethics)
Tension, violence, or war between different groups of people based on their ethnicity—meaning their shared ancestry, culture, language, or national origin.
Genocide(as used in ethics and political philosophy)
The deliberate, systematic killing of a large group of people based on their nationality, ethnicity, religion, or race with the intent to destroy that entire group.
Human capital(as used in economics and development philosophy)
The skills, knowledge, health, and abilities that people have—basically, what makes people valuable and productive workers and members of society.
The heuristic value of the concept of postcolonial is not to be underappreciated, for the various instances in which the successes of defeating the classical, directly administered colonial ventures in Africa of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been compromised by situations of indirect rule, or neocolonialism, effected through economic control of the new African nation-states by Western European and U.S. American transnational capitalist enterprises and multinational organizations an