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Abstract: Though it is endowed with the highest level of biodiversity in the world, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the poorest region in the world, and it stands to be slipping further behind. This paper revealed economic globalisation as the main cause, because it has shrunken the power of the state in Africa. It identified three
major domains that have bolstered economic globalisation in keeping Africa from meeting-up with other continents. The first is the avidity for raw materials/natural resources as demonstrated by the global North; the second is the economic interest in Western military interventions in Africa’s numerous armed intractable conflicts; and the third is, the enormous environmental degradation/externalities suffered by the continent from the unbridled external interest in Africa’s rich biodiversity. This article using the world system theory as its theoretical framework, argues that so long as this economic-driven external interests for the exploitation of Africa’s rich biodiversity subsists, Africa stands to be in retreat under economic globalisation.
Keywords: Economic Globalisation, Environment, Natural Resources, SSA, State.