Post-independence Africa: Perspectives on Political and Socio Economic Mutations: L'Afrique post indépendance : Perspectives sur les mutations politiques et socio-économiques

The colonial period and post-independence era are two exciting historical pegs with shared and diametrically opposed narratives on the people and continent of Africa. They are two periods with leverages of continuities and discontinuities. While the colonial period for the most part left the African people as passive recipients of European socioeconomic and political values, colonialism at the same time created strands of resistance that manifested variously as nationalism. The outcome of t...