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NeoColonization

eocolonialism, as the term
itself suggests, is a new
(form of) colonialism. It is
Ndefined as the practice of
using Capitalism, Globalization, cultur-
al imperialism, and conditional aid to
influence a developing country, instead
of the previous colonial methods of di-
rect military control (imperialism) or
indirect political control (hegemony),
typically resulting in a relationship of de-
pendence, subservience or financial obli-
gation towards the neocolonialist nation.

The outcome of this would be an undue
degree of political control and spiraling
debt obligations (source: Wikipedia).
The term seems to first have been coined
by Jean-Paul Sartre in the late 1950s.
Monsieur Sartre was a French philoso-
pher and a vigorous opponent of France’s
practices in Algeria. Ghana’s first presi-
dent, Kwame Nkrumah, then began to use
the term in the 1960s, in reference to var-
ious neocolonial practices in Afrika and
other parts of the world, by former colo-
nizers and other countries in the West.

Nkrumah was eager to be rid of all forms
of colonial hegemony in Afrika but, sad-
ly, it seems that most of his colleagues at
Head of State and Government level were

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