Globalizing Africa? Observations from an inconvenient continent

Abstract

In the first chapter of the compendium of works by James Ferguson between 1990 and 2005, the author challenges the univocal conception of globalization as a uniform whole, bright and round, through the example of the African continent, which he defines as being uncomfortable and therefore neglected in much of the core studies of globalization in recent years. Thanks to the resistance and different perspectives about the global in Africa, the author uncovers the fractures of the concept of globalization and makes room for new ways of understanding the international reality of this time.