"By 1885, when European kings, princes and presidents sat in Berlin to slice up the African continent with their geome…"

"Right from inception, the most important feature of colonialism was the division of the continent into countries and …"

"The underlying economic logic of the colonial economy was the exploitation of natural and human resources. Colonies b…"

"The colonial state was an implant, an alien apparatus imposed on the colonised society. It was an excrescence of the …"

"The colonial infrastructure was the exact antithesis of a national economy. The only rationale behind individual Afri…"

"Economists have described the 1980s as Africa’s lost decade. The 1980s were also a transition period marking the begi…"

"Colonialism left by the front door and returned through the back door in the form of neocolonialism. Radical national…"

"We activists are not in the business of brokering power where expediency and compromise rule. Our business is to resi…"

"Globalisation in Africa is manifest in the neoliberal economic and political packages, centering around trade liberal…"

"We do not judge the outcome of a process by the intentions of its authors. We aim to analyse the objective effects of…"