NEW FACE OF AFRICA IN THE GLOBALIZATION AGE, ITS ABSURDIST CONSEQUENCES IN BECKETT’S WAITING FOR GODOT AND RUSHDIE’S THE SATANIC VERSES

Résumé

The world is changing fast. As modern science and technology have turned the world into a global village, Africa is under a serious challenge over exploitation and slavery from the civilized nations. There is the danger of the continent’s loosing its bearing as the more civilized nations keep changing ideas constantly at the detriment of the black man. Not long ago, African institutions witnessed the phasing out of typewriters and the introduction of computer machines and accessories into their academic and government institutions and establishments. These events which took place in the middle of the first tens of the years of 2000 millennium alongside other earlier problems of post colonialism looked very good and promising to Africans, but ironically today, typists, messengers and other low carder of civil servants have been phased out with the arrival of the computer. Unemployment is on the increase, economic recession is facing the black world, to the level that suicide cases are becoming the order of the day. Where are those things for which Africa was known? So to speak, where are the African values? Where are the African intellectuals, seers, prophets and priests? This paper is of the view that the effect of globalization on Africa is to say the least absurd and need more serious reappraisal.