IntroductionIn this article Prempeh seeks to interrogate the underlying counter-hegemonic process of "globalization from below", as captured in the work of Richard Falk, and questions the extent to which this process incorporates marginalized voices in African civil society. We see that according to him globalization has an unequal nature which has motivated political resistance and counter-movements aimed at challenging its alienating practices, its silencing of people's voices and its undemocratic or even anti-democratic tendencies (Falk, 1999; Gill, 1995 ). Globalization in this article has been described in many ways both as a description of widespread and decisive developments and as a prescription for action, which has achieved virtual hegemony and is therefore presented with an air of inevitability that disarms the imagination and it prevents thinking and action towards a systemic alternative, towards another more just social and economic order. (p. 8) Globalization, has also been described as the ongoing restructuring and reshaping of the contemporary global economy, is a powerful transformative process that has acquired a hegemonic status as a result of its operational logic and ideological connotation. A hegemonic process in itself, globalization has had economic, political, social, cultural and technological effects and has called into question the sustainability of the existing architecture of the contemporary world system. Globalization, thus understood, has become, to borrow the words of Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson (1996), “a fashionable concept in the social sciences, a fundamental maxim in the prescriptions of management gurus, and a slogan for journalists and politicians of each stripe" (p.Prem... half of the document... LTE (1996) points out that "rural Africa hardly has a voice in global intergovernmental agencies, for example, and in global civil society, as it is a si is developed, has tended thus far to be drawn disproportionately from the urban, northern, white, (computer) literate and property-owning classes" (p.111). This should involve the participation and representation of African and Third World voices , a necessary condition for an inclusive global civil society. Conclusion This bottom-up resistance located in global civil society seeks to challenge the exclusionary practices of globalization from above and its tendency to silence the voices of those most affected by this process . The article argued that, although this critical discourse of globalization from above, -below is very promising, it is important not to overemphasize its revolutionary and emancipatory credentials.