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Post-Independence Africa Had Dreams of Freedom. Neoliberalism Offers Nothing But Subordination.
While flawed, African governments in the early post-independence years projected a vision beyond neocolonialism and subordination to the Global North. Neoliberalism has deepened the continent’s subjugation — and dressed it up as non-ideological.