IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA: A THEORETICAL CRITIQUE OF SOME UNRESOLVED ISSUES
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This paper examines copious extant and current theoretical
perspectives on the highly vexing and contentious issue of imperialism in
Africa highlighting the marxist, Neo-maxist and the Orthodox theoretical
directions.
Although the critique took exceptions with these contending
explanations of the phenomenon of imperialism, it, nevertheless, inclines
towards the economic theory of imperialism as proffered by the marxist or
radical Scholars.
The primary reason, the critique contends, resides in the nature
and dialectics of capitalism; that capitalism by its very nature is expansionist,
immoral, despicable and racists.
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JA Political science (General)