Towards Emancipation

The economic,social and political development of the African people in the past few centuries has been, needless to mention, peculiar. In the global stage, the past five hundred years have witnessed the primitive accumulation of wealth in preparation for the dawn of the capitalist era, the agitation therefrom for the abolition of the feudal system of economic production, the onset of the capitalist mode of production and consequently the advancement of modern industry, the advent of monopoly capital and the rise of imperialism and colonialism, and, finally, neocolonialism. The peculiarity of Africa in this case is that it is not at the centre of these developments; it is at the periphery.  Africa is not the initiator of these advancements, it is the recepient. For the primitive accumulation of capital necessary for industrilization in Europe, Africa had to suffer the capture and enslavement of its people in merciless fashion. During the advent of the capitalist mode of production ...