Abstract

After the Second World War, the imperialist trends of the eighteenth and nineteenth century began to decline. Through collective struggles, the Africans achieved independence from the whites. But though they attained freedom, they could not imagine the fact that it was just a treacherous exchange of power between the out-going masters and few of their faithful heirs. In the colonial period, the European rulers propagated that as the Africans had no culture and history of their own, it was their holy duty to civilize the native Africans. Thus, they regarded themselves superior to Africans whose culture they considered inferior, uncivilized, and savage. In the name of spreading civilization, they dominated, oppressed, tyrannized and persecuted the native Africans not only economically and politically, but also culturally. When the Europeans left, the Africans got political freedom, but the foul practice of imperialism did not end. It appeared in a new form namely neocolonialism which the scholars had branded as the worst form of imperialism. This camouflaged imperialist practice is turning Africa into a museum of acute poverty, hunger, corruption and famine. The paper aims at elucidating the effects of neocolonialism in Africa from four major perspectives– economic, political, cultural and literary.

Highlights

  • In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and in the changing scenario of the world politics the previous imperialist power (Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, etc.) had collapsed and the neo-imperialist countries like the USSR and the USA appeared on the stage

  • Perniciously by the imperialist countries. She added “the term neocolonialism was originally applied to European policies that were seen as schemes to maintain control of African and other dependencies.”

  • After the end of the War, imperialism attained a new phase in the polarized world

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Summary

Introduction

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and in the changing scenario of the world politics the previous imperialist power (Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, etc.) had collapsed and the neo-imperialist countries like the USSR and the USA appeared on the stage. The influence of these neo-imperialist countries led to the decolonization of Africa which began in the 1960s. Africa could not come out from the curse of poverty, hunger, corruption and famine; and underdevelopment was a common term in their arena. Why is Africa in this condition? To find answer to this question, in our research we will unveil such untold histories of Africa which the researchers usually did not say

Definition of the Neocolonialism
The Untold History of Africa
Economic
Economic Drain and Debt
Politics
Effect of Colonial Aggression on African Culture
Neo-colonialism and African Literature
Findings
Conclusion
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