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NeoColonization

placency and to fear death; as opposed to being raised to
boldly challenge injustice, evil and corruption in their coun-
tries and on international platforms regardless of person-
al cost. How ironic it is that most countries’ victories came
as a result of blood that was shed and the heroes of these
battles are celebrated even now for their ‘great sacrifices’
but no one seems to want to make any more great sacrifices
and face off against the injustice that is facing Afrika today.

Great ‘choices’

In 1965, Kwame Nkrumah outlined various mechanisms of
neocolonialism in his book “Neocolonialism: The Last Stage
of Imperialism”, highlighting the various tools and strategies
employed by the USA and saying that these “operate not only
in the economic field, but also in the political, religious, ideo-
logical and cultural spheres.” Neocolonialism, according to
Nkrumah, dispenses with its flags and hated expatriate officials
and offers aid for development under offensive conditions that
favor the ‘donor’, works through the use of persuasion or force
via the ‘Invisible Government’ spoken of by Wise and Ross,
to coerce cooperation from targeted nations, it manipulates
world markets, uses exorbitantly high interest rates (specifical-
ly against developing countries) retaining privileges within the
former colonies, such as military bases, land concessions, min-
eral and oil rights, uses movies as propaganda tools to make
the melanated man look inferior and villainous, uses the media
for further dissemination of its underhanded propaganda and
psychological warfare and uses big businesses for espionage.

At the time of writing, Nkrumah was of the opinion that Af-
rika was seeing the last gasps of imperialism as manifested in
neocolonialism, and was convinced that victory was in sight.

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