Moses Ochonu

Moses Ebe Ochonu is a Nigerian academic, historian, author and professor of African History at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He has been the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in History since 2017. Quotes Afro-defeatism is my coinage and is a lexical cousin to Afro-pessimism. Ochonu introduced the term “Afro-defeatism” while discussing representations of Africa and the tendency to regard resistance to external forces as futile. The Marvel Comics movie, Black Panther, is more than a feel-good movie moment for Africans and people of African descent. Ochonu was discussing the significance of the film Black Panther in relation to historical representations of Africa and the psychological effects of colonialism and Afro-pessimism... Globalization is neither an inevitable process nor an inescapable event. Ochonu was examining the effects of neoliberal globalization on African workers and arguing that globalization should not simply be treated as an unavoidable historical force. African workers seem to have done a better job of adapting to this reality than their Western counterparts. Ochonu was comparing the responses of African and Western workers to globalization. The reality of leadership has exploded the illusion of Buhari’s messianic abilities and exposed him as a prisoner of power – in other words, as just another politician. He argued that exercising political power had challenged the image of Buhari as an exceptional political figure. Corruption generates secondary and tertiary ripples and transactional economies that benefit even the pepper seller in the market. Ochonu was analysing the economic consequences of corruption in Nigeria. It is important to critique this blind devotion to the neoliberal jargons and grammar of anticorruption. Ochonu was challenging approaches to anti-corruption policy that focus narrowly on eliminating corrupt practices without considering the social and economic relationships surrounding them. The former textile workers of Kaduna did not capitulate to the forces of globalization. Ochonu was describing how workers affected by the collapse of Northern Nigeria's textile industry responded to economic globalization. He emphasised adaptation and survival rather than passive acceptance of economic displacement. External links Category:Living people Category:Academics from Nigeria Category:University of Michigan alumni