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Moving beyond the tendency to view African challenges mainly as the result of failed African political leadership, Msindo argues that Africa’s postcolonial economic and political transitions were affected mainly by the structural conditions of the new states and the nature of Africa’s relationship with the West. Post-independent Africa remained captured by Western capitalist enterprise and meddlesome Western politicians who dictated Africa’s economic and political developments. Most Western corporations remained in Africa and continued their parasitic relationship with the continent, syphoning resources and profits to their mother countries. The USA also rose as a global power, with a strong foothold in Africa. Consequently, neither capitalist-oriented African governments nor socialists could transform Africa. To buttress his argument, Msindo undertakes a sophisticated survey of many Sub-Saharan African countries since independence
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Msindo, E. (2018). Postcolonial Africa and the West. In: Shanguhyia, M., Falola, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59426-6_30
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