Virtual Project
International Solidarity Economy, Indo-African Relations, and Contemporary Economic Development in the Global-South
YSI-Indo-Africa Cooperative Talk
Start time:
April 25 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
EDT
Location:
Online
Type:
Lecture
Virtual Project
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Description
| Submitted By | Ajibola Akanji |
| Format | A one-time zoom |
| Description | Lecture |
| Tentative Title | |
| Motivation | The relevance of Indo-African relations in contemporary global-south relations cannot be overemphasized. The assertion is more pronounced in African countries with British colonial history. In these countries, the history of modern administrative and legal takes root from cultures, which were native to Great Britain, and other parts of Europe. These administrative and legal cultures were at a time transplanted by colonial administrators to the then India subcontinent (currently, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka). These European cultures proved reasonably successful in the estimation of the colonial administrators, hence were adjourned as suitable for further transplant/adaptation to their then African colonies. Thus, the evolution of administrative and legal cultures sits at the core of the political economy Indo-African narratives. This brings to fore some relevant inferences, with one of the most enduring found in emergence, growth and development of modern cooperatives. For instance, cooperative development in British-India particularly from 1890 to 1930 robbed deeply on its counterparts in former British colonies in Africa. For example, British cooperative experts such as C.F. Strickland initially worked in British-India before they worked in Nigeria, and other African countries. Among others, these experts transplanted modern administrative and legal frameworks as experimented in British – India to African countries. Furthermore, modern history tells that British-India was ahead of her African counterparts in term of manpower, administrative and legal development. Thus, when faced with faced with acute shortage of manpower, British colonial powers had to import indigenous nationals of the then British-Indian as expatriates to remedy the shortages. It was in the same vein that British colonial administration, faced with the challenges of which of the models of administrative policies, or strands of legal framework was most suitable for her then African colonies had to transplant successful models, and strands from the then British-India. Many of these models/strands of administration and legal frameworks proved successful. Several sectors of African economy did benefit from the trend. Some of these sectors are agriculture, health, civil service, education, transportation/railways, and manufacturing. In many of such circumstances, the transplanted administrative and legal policies were the mechanism for transformation of many indigenous social solidarity economy entities in the then British-African into modern cooperatives, and were responsible for their sustenance afterwards. Many of these policies have survived till date under different guises. Among others, these policies were supportive of subsequent robust interface better India and many English speaking African countries. These peculiarity supports what is today known as Indo-African relations. However, times have changed, Indo-African relations which was at some points, particularly around the 1950 -1970 speculated to blossom in subsequent years have rather diminished. This has gradually paved way for Sino-Africa relations on the one part, and eastern-centric dependency theory on the other. Thus, in this webinar, a renowned scholar Professor Bangaru identifies reasons for the stunted growth of Indo-African relations. He proceeds to dissect, and proffers solutions to redress identified anomalies from a cooperativist perspective, and on the strength of private international solidarity economy. |
| Will Strengthen By | this project brings to fore India’s contribution to civilisation on the African continent, and it will promote the understanding of south Asian’s relevance to contemporary globalization. Importantly, it supports the discuss and research on Indo-Africa relations hence promote cross fertilisation of ideals between this working group, and others. For example, the Africa and cooperative working groups. |
Hosted by Working Group(s):
Attendees
Sophiah Abuga
Silas Maiyo
Aarti Reddy
SOOMRIT CHATTOPADHYAY
Aldana Garcia Tarsia
Jacobo Silva Parada
Dr. Wonders Ebimotimimowei Pibowei
Bhaswati Borgohain
Rohit Kumar Rawat