Geopolitics and Manifestations of Self-Hatreď

Taking all other factors as constant, nationals of countries previously colonialised - with a history of slave trade, and current characteristic underdevelopment - tend to demonstrate traits of self-hatred. Unlike those of early industrialized developed countries with sustained growth trajectories. 

With colonialism and slave trade, came an instilled sense of inferiority in colonies about given and indigenous identity, culture and society, as measured against the structures, cultures, and systems of colonial masters. 

Even after many decades of formal political independence from colonializers, former colonies may still be dependent on the means and measures of erstwhile masters for validation. As such, overdependence, identity crisis, low capacity development in the domestic economy tends to proliferate. These hamper domestic ability to scale up indigenous solutions for production and governance. 

Developing economies, whose agrarian and extractive sectors served as feeders to the manufacturing bases of colonial industrial economies, still retain such dual economic structures - with low manufacturing capacity and minimal export diversification. The untoward focus on resource extraction and overdependence on raw commodity exports keeps the cycle of underdevelopment steady in such countries. A peep into sub-Saharan Africa unveils a variety of case studies. 

Generational distaste for cultural heritages, indigenous language, style and systems are manifestations of self-hatred. These were steadily imparted by subjugation experienced through many years of slave trading, colonization, and over-dependence on laundry-lists of imported solutions for domestic problems. 

For instance, even though Western-styled democracy has replaced monarchical systems at the national level of governance in most developing countries, there are pockets of inefficiencies in public administration and  a slow transition to inclusive governance. A critical gap is the absence or ineffectiveness of local institutions needed to engineer the required structural shift. 

It therefore comes as no surprise that the very elements of a good unit or system governance - sustained growth, peace, justice, patriotic zeal - are absent in many such societies. While global best practices may be learned from early industrializers, latecomers in development need to retain a healthy sense of national identity in the process and foster mutual dependence through shrewd negotiations. 

Should underdeveloped countries indiscriminately gulp down ideas, concepts, and insights projected by developed societies as sacrosanct and infallible? Or adopt such without recourse to underlying premises upon which such mechanisms were built? Certainly not. With a blind adoption of imported propositions, such as the Washington Consensus, came prolonged structural and economic hardship. 

Invariably, every human society has the  latent ingenuity to create solutions to its  problems. Thus, while addressing systemic issues produced by historical geopolitical influences, the path to recovery and development can be intentional, collaborative, and sustainable.