Decolonisation pressures arose before colonial conquests even finished
Evidence
The agreed partition of Africa provided rather orderly circumstances for the colonial extractive mechanism to operate. For many years, the colonies enriched the metropolitan economies. But the pressures to decolonise were evident even ‘before the colonial conquests had been completed’. These pressures mounted after World War II, with Britain leading the way, although very few nations let go without being involved in violent struggles with local independence movements. Over time, it became obvious to all that ‘the old colonial nexus was not viable, nor indeed necessary to metropolitan interests’. — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 18
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Nineteenth-century European control of Africa long remained marginal before imperial conquest
Related
- Nineteenth-century European control of Africa long remained marginal before imperial conquest (similarity 0.81)
- Decolonization dissolved empire-specific protected markets into a single global market (similarity 0.79)
- The colonial resource grab morphed into a neoliberal regime that maintained extraction mechanisms (similarity 0.79)
- The colonial export economy locked the freed colony into sugar and coffee production. (similarity 0.78)