Post-colonial African states remain dependent on foreign investment and Western cultural influence.

Evidence

In 1965, Kwame Nkrumah, a political scientist and the president of Ghana, employed the word neocolonialism for this new era: “The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic and thus its political policy is directed from outside.” — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 181 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Although the United Nations ‘experiment’ in Somalia, as it has often been called, had certainly succeeded in providing the new state with an effective administrative and political framework, neither the southern nor the northern regions were yet economically viable. In recognition of their outstanding economic requirements both former colonial powers had agreed to continue to supply aid and assistance. Britain had promised £1-1/2 million for the first year after independence, and thereafter an annually negotiable amount. This financial aid was accompanied by a six months’ programme of technical assistance such that Britain would for six months continue to pay the salaries of those former colonial officials who elected, at the request of the Somali government, to stay on after independence. Italy promised a more substantial annual grant of about £3 million, paid partly in the form of salaries to a team of Italian ‘experts’ serving with the Somali government. The commercial link between the two countries, which brought the southern regions into the European Common Market, was to be continued through the banana monopoly and the heavy dependence of Somalia upon Italy for imported goods. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 423 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Financing local food production would save rather than deplete African foreign reserves; U.S. territories remain colonial arrangements under new vocabulary.; Devaluation coerced African states into structural adjustment benefiting French firms. — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 215 (+7 more)

Related

• Neocolonialism keeps formally independent states economically and politically directed from outside (similarity 0.88)
• U.S. territories remain colonial arrangements under new vocabulary. (similarity 0.87)
• Nkrumah argued formal decolonization left colonial economic control intact (similarity 0.82)
• The new Republic’s economic survival hinged on continued colonial aid (similarity 0.82)
• Imperial expansion persists but is relabeled as commitments and foreign aid (similarity 0.81)
• Post-independence Somalia remained economically dependent on British and Italian aid (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Neocolonialism keeps formally independent states economically and politically directed from outside #corroborates (0.90) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 181
• Post-independence Somalia remained economically dependent on British and Italian aid #exemplifies (0.80) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 423
• Dependent countries had to westernize even when resisting the West #expands (0.70)
• The colonial vertical-integration trade model persists despite reoriented trading partners #expands (0.70)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421