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The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, being basic to the relations within any group and between groups. It implies the ability to defend one's interests and if necessary to impose one’s will by any means available. In relations between peoples, the question of power determines maneuverability in bargaining, the extent to which a people survive as a physical and cultural entity. When one society finds itself forced to relinquish power entirely to another society, that in itself is a form of underdevelopment.
312 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1971
Illiterates with the right attitude to manual employment are preferable to products of the schools who are not readily disposed to enter manual employmentKenya had two independent school associations (as mentioned by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, although I forget in which book), which were immediately closed when the Mau Mau war for liberation broke out.
However morally indefensible slavery may have been, it did serve for a while to open up the mines and agricultural plantations in large parts of Europe and notably within the Roman Empire.