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International Solidarity Economy, Indo-African Relations, and Contemporary Economic Development in the Global-South
YSI-Indo-Africa Cooperative Talk
Start time:
April 25, 2025 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
WAT
Location:
Online
Type:
Lecture
Speakers
Bangaru Tamilmani
Professor
Description
| Submitted By | Ajibola Akanji |
| Format | A one-time zoom |
| Description | Lecture |
| Tentative Title | International Solidarity Economy, Indo-African Relations and Contemporary Economic Development in the Global-South |
| Motivation | The relevance of Indo-African relations in contemporary global-south relations cannot be overemphasized. The assertion is more pronounced in African countries with British colonial history. In these countries, the history of modern administrative and legal takes root from cultures, which were native to Great Britain, and other parts of Europe. These administrative and legal cultures were at a time transplanted by colonial administrators to the then India subcontinent (currently, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka). These European cultures proved reasonably successful in the estimation of the colonial administrators, hence were adjourned as suitable for further transplant/adaptation to their then African colonies. Thus, the evolution of administrative and legal cultures sits at the core of the political economy Indo-African narratives. This brings to fore some relevant inferences, with one of the most enduring found in emergence, growth and development of modern cooperatives. For instance, cooperative development in British-India particularly from 1890 to 1930 robbed deeply on its counterparts in former British colonies in Africa. For example, British cooperative experts such as C.F. Strickland initially worked in British-India before they worked in Nigeria, and other African countries. Among others, these experts transplanted modern administrative and legal frameworks as experimented in British – India to African countries. Furthermore, |
Hosted by Working Group(s):
Attendees
Sophiah Abuga
Silas Maiyo
Aarti Reddy
SOOMRIT CHATTOPADHYAY
Aldana Garcia Tarsia
Jacobo Silva Parada
Dr. Wonders Ebimotimimowei Pibowei
Bhaswati Borgohain
Rohit Kumar Rawat
Jeremiah Fasakin
Ahmed Hafezi
Maria Cecilia Pereira da Rocha
Onur Biyik
Jyotiprakash Saha
Patricia Albuquerque Medeiros
Arnaldo Dos Santos Vaz Neto
Nikolai Yakushev
Geraldine Sibanda
Christopher Pomwene Shafuda
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