An Anthropological Perspective on Globalization and Modernization in Traditional African Socities: A Case Study of Niger-Benue Confluence Area (original) (raw)

This paper examines the effects of globalization and modernization in traditional African societies. It uses the Niger-Benue confluence area as a case study. The study underscores the fact that the area has come under the debilitating influence of globalization, westernization and modernization. This study clarifies, espouses and critiques globalization and modernization within the African milieu. Globalization and modernization have become, after colonialism and westernization, the greatest onslaughts on Africa. The study is an anthropological inquiry into the effects of globalization within the cultural milieu of the peoples of the Niger-Benue confluence area. In the face of global economic aggression and cultural violence against Africans and multiple economic abuses, political intimidation and collective violence of pauperization committed on the continent, the paper observes that, it is clearly emerging that there is need for anthropological study of the phenomena of globalizat...

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