8 October 2020 — Tricontinental

Judy Seidman, Imperialism Stops Here, 2020.

Dear friends,

Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

In 1965, Ghana’s Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah published a bold book, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism. In this book, Nkrumah documented in great detail the way in which European and North American multinational firms – in close collaboration with their governments – continued to smother the aspirations of the new nations of Africa. As an example, Nkrumah took up his own country, Ghana, which had been known by the colonial name ‘the Gold Coast’ until 1957. Continue reading →