摘要：This essay seeks to problematise the idea of Africans articulating themselves in the global neighbourhood, starting with an analysis of Africa’s burden of discovery by Europe, before focussing on the inner pinnings of the ethnic dimension of society in Africa. The essay will focus particularly on three important themes: the ethnic, cultural, and political implications of Europe’s colonization of Africa; effects of the pernicious personality politics in Sub-Saharan Africa; and the need to formulate legit ground rules for effective leadership in Africa. I will, in effect, examine efforts made by African intellectuals to restore the dignity of African people and to inspire them to take their place as agents in the development of the continent and not just as helpless, hopeless and hapless beings awaiting succour from the outside world. The overall trajectory this essay takes is that “ethnic mobilization” (Rawlinson, “The Political Manipulation of Ethnicity in Africa”) is the major source of conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa and that the overall culprit behind inter-ethnic conflict in Africa is the pathology of colonialism.
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