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‘The essence of neocolonialism is that the state which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside’—Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism (London: Heinemann, 1968) p. ix.
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See the late Thomas Hodgkin’s classic study of Nationalism in Colonial Africa (New York: New York University Press, 1957).
Richard L. Harris, ‘The Political Economy of Africa: Underdevelopment or Revolution’, in his collection on The Political Economy of Africa (Cambridge: Schenkman, 1975) p. 19.
Ibid p. 21.
See Timothy M. Shaw, ‘Nigeria’s Political Economy: Constitutions, Capitalism and Contradictions’, ODI Review 2, 1980, pp. 76–85.
Evans, Dependent Development p. 312. On the application of this perspective to the Nigerian case see Timothy M. Shaw, ‘Nigeria in the International System’, in I. William Zartman (ed.), The Political Economy of Nigeria (New York: Praeger, 1983) pp. 207–36.
For a general discussion see Nicole Ball, ‘The Military in Politics: Who Benefits and How’, World Development 9(16), June 1981, pp. 569–82.
See Michael F. Lofchie, ‘The Uganda Coup — Class Action by the Military’, Journal of Modern African Studies 10(1), May 1972, pp. 19–35.
See Richard Sandbrook & Robin Cohen (eds), The Development of an African Working Class (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975).
See Mai Palmberg (ed.), Problems of Socialist Orientation in Africa (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1978).
See in particular Saul’s work on Tanzania, the assumptions of which are spelled out in his vigorous debate with Cran Pratt in John S. Saul, ‘Tanzania’s Transition to Socialism’, Canadian Journal of African Studies 11(2), 1977, pp. 313–39.
See D. Wadada Nabudere, Essays on the Theory and Practice of Imperialism (London: Onyx, 1979).
See William Tordoff & Ali A. Mazrui, The Left and the Super-left in Tanzania’, Journal of Modern African Studies 10(3), October 1972, pp. 427–45.
Richard L. Sklar, ‘The Nature of Class Domination in Africa’, Journal of Modern African Studies 17(4), December 1979, p. 550.
Hamza Alavi, ‘The State in Post-Colonial Societies: Pakistan and Bangladesh’, in Harry Goulbourne (ed.), Politics and State in the Third World (London: Macmillan, 1979) p. 41.
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Shaw, T.M. (1985). Prognosis: Contradictions and Coalitions. In: Towards a Political Economy for Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17747-9_3
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