Postcolonial African Governance Impediment Historical Entanglement and Virtual Colonisation

As Africa embarks on the 21st century, it is faced with a plethora of governance issues that have yet to be resolved. Poverty, rapid urbanisation, the question of nationality, regional integration, gender inequality, and food insecurity are just a few of the key concerns facing the world today. The continent of Africa has unavoidably suffered from violent conflicts, political fragmentation, and the fact that it has a subaltern place in the international community and global governance. The processes that contribute to the exclusion and marginalisation of vast sectors of African cultures are still occurring, and poverty remains massive and deeply established. In general, poverty and underdevelopment continue to be a source of civil unrest, intimately linked to the failure of imported democratic politics and the absence of powerful non-state actors. African states are currently struggling to form unified nation-states while simultaneously advancing human development. Given the unresolved legacy of colonial governance and repression, this endeavour has proven particularly difficult.