Education Infrastructure and Unsustainable Development in Africa

• Authors: A. Olutayo
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Rather than creating the appropriate social relations for the means of production, the perspective on development in Africa has hinged on "infrastructure for development" thus leading to underdevelopment. This is because the social relation of infrastructure for development is parasitic and thus cannot reproduce itself. What it does is to accumulate primitive capital for conspicuous consumption rather than the creation of reproductive capital. Consequently, a dependency relation with the source(s) of primitive capital accumulation is almost inevitable if the dominant group in the relationship, with its foundation in the acquisition of formal education, is to continue to subsist. Ironically, this incapacitates the subordinate group(s) as their recruitment processes are conditioned by the powerful ideological state, now global, apparatuses. The paper shows how this process works through the empirical examples of the acclaimed "success" story of Botswana and the perceived "failed" state of Nigeria.

Keywords

EN

Education; infrastructure; development; underdevelopment; Nigeria; Botswana

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 183-198

Dates

published

2010-06-01

online

2010-06-24

Contributors

author

A. Olutayo

• Department of Sociology, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10023-010-0018-8