Francis B. Nyamnjoh
African Sociological Review, 4(2), 2000, pp.1-45
Defined as the compression of time and space or 'the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa' (Giddens, 1990:63-78), globalization is seen as a process of accelerated flows of capital, consumer goods, people, and products of culture and knowledge (especially in the form of electronic audiovisual images (cf. O'Brien, 1993; Appadurai, 1996; Thompson, 1999; Geschier & Meyer, 1998; Gray, 1998).
While international flows can be traced back to when humankind first attempted the domestication of time and space, it is generally agreed that the rapid advances in communication and information technologies of the last 20 years have had the greatest impact on the process.
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this is a piece of scholarly work that needs reading with an open and sensitive part of the the eye, thus conscience. the article moved me as a young African scholar out of my comfort zones and be more critical of who i am in relation to how the world is rapidly getting interconnected through various networks of exploitation, inclusion and exclusion. it compelled me to redefine my values and seek the virtue of what it means to be an African in the midst of such paraphernelia.
Posted by: yorokee kapimbua | June 26, 2005 at 02:42 PM
many thanks that your articles are available online! it is hard to get most african social scientific literature in austria. so i am very happy and thankful.
all the best,
regine
Posted by: regine | May 25, 2006 at 05:07 PM