title: African development crisis and global thinking: Collapse of the periphery, decay of the core
abstract: This paper used the core-periphery concept of underdevelopment as a theoretical framework to analyze the African development crisis and the collapse of African initiatives with the development of the Global thought. The paper observed inter alia, that the force of Globalization in which the policies of the core centers have led to the collapse of local (African state) initiatives in all spectrums of the region&rsquo;s developmental question has not only created more domestic problems of underdev
journal: African Journal of Political Science and International Relations