Frederick Cooper is dealing with the Globalization from the eye of an African historian. For him in the term globalization, we must notice two ideas. The first one is the idea of “global” and the second, of “ization”. His point is that the “global” evokes the flows of information, capitals, commodities, while the “ization” indicates an on-going process meaning that globalization is a continuing phenomena. Therefore, speaking of an on-going process, we should first make a rappel on the history of Africa in globalization. This is why he mentions farther in his document the slavery trade, the colonization and the history of sugar, trying to find a connection with the globalization.
As a matter of facts, under all these, there was a structure, a connection, all a system established between nation-states to operate well. This was already a kind of globalization where Africa took part. Today, Africa no more has the same connection with the rest of the world. In fact, Frederick Cooper’s point is how connections change between nation-states and continents. Studying the role of Africa in the process of globalization, how are made the connections between continents and which are they, which are the limits and their changes are the matters of globalization.
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Alpha, that is a very good peace of work, I agree with the fact that Africa's connection with the rest of the world doesn't exist anymore because the connections are now changing.
Alpha,
your article is clear and well writen. I just want to develop a little bit an interesting point about it. I wanted to add that colonization has played a main role on globalization. I want to insist too on cultural sector, because nowadays we can see "Black people" everywhere in the world and our culture becomes widely known.
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