Thirteenth Global Studies Conference

Abstract

This paper intends to juxtapose the key issues undergirding the globalisation project with the techno-economic level of the sub-Saharan Africa. This is done to explain how the globalisation project perpetuates the economy of the sub-continent as a dependent of the Centre. Views of Afrocentric scholars on globalisation within the dominant discourses were not left out of discussion in the paper. Discussion of these views were rooted to the key issues. The paper makes a comparative analysis of global flow of capital, amenities, and labour with a view to assessing how the sub-continent prefigures in that nexus. The discussion and the comparative analysis were done to bring to the fore, why emigration of skilled labour will persist in the sub-continent unless the globalisation project factors into its calculation some humanist and social issues that could address the fall outs from the techno-economic disparity. Finally, the paper posits that for the sub-Saharan Africa to be a key player in the globalised economy and stem the tide of emigration from her soil, the sub-continent needs to transform from a consuming zone to a producing and exporting sub-continent.