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Corruption-Drug Trafficking-Terrorism Nexus: Understanding West African Security-Development Quandary Beyond European Inferiority Propaganda
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This study examines the West African security-development quandary and raises a poser as to whether this quandary is a practical validation of the European colonial propaganda and theoretical conception of Africans as inferior people. For epistemic answers, the study identifies corruption-drug trafficking-terrorism nexus as more reasonable explanation of human security and sustainable development predicament in postcolonial West Africa. Arising from a thorough interrogation of the trends, nuances and shapes of this nexus, the study concludes that the European conception of Africans as inferior is untrue and baseless as Africans have always been fully human with capacity for effective social organisation and robust governance. However, the most ingenious solution to the problems of insecurity and underdevelopment in West Africa is to frontally break the nexus by functionally and structurally addressing the problems of corruption and drug trafficking as a means to ultimately reduce the spate of terrorism in the sub-region.
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