ABSTRACT
This chapter describes two basic ideological premises in relation to Africa in a historical perspective—namely Africa as the “Third World” and Africa as the “developing world.” Essentially, the analysis is a critique of the concept of the Third World and attempts to create a new image for Africa. It is reasonable to argue that the concept of the Third World is obsolete and should be jettisoned because it belongs more to the post-Cold War era as a preoccupation of the twentieth century in international relations rather than to the present millennium. To appreciate the extent of the African development process and the imperative of using the concept of development rather than Third World, it is significant to recourse to historical antecedent. Twenty-first-century African women have clearly demonstrated that they are indeed dynamic agents of political and economic transformation by which the dream of African development could become a reality.
