Skip to main content
Taylor & Francis Group Logo
    Advanced Search

    Click here to search products using title name,author name and keywords.

    • Login
    • Hi, User  
      • Your Account
      • Logout
      Advanced Search

      Click here to search products using title name,author name and keywords.

      Breadcrumbs Section. Click here to navigate to respective pages.

      Chapter

      Independence and After
      loading

      Chapter

      Independence and After

      DOI link for Independence and After

      Independence and After book

      Independence and After

      DOI link for Independence and After

      Independence and After book

      ByImmanuel Wallerstein*
      BookThe Structure of Political Geography

      Click here to navigate to parent product.

      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2011
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 8
      eBook ISBN 9781315135267
      Share
      Share

      ABSTRACT

      Independence, as the nationalists had always insisted, makes a lot of difference. It transfers much of the effective power to individuals and structures internal to the country. The government of a new nation, immediately after independence, is a very unstable thing. Independence was not magic. In country after country in Africa, during the first weeks of independence, the leaders felt the need to make speeches on the theme that independence means hard work and self-reliance. Before an African colony achieves independence it is part of an imperial economy. The shift to a national economy after independence is sometimes only a partial one, though the new government may try to intensify it for political rather than economic reasons. Ghana's independence and the first Conference of Independent African States, held in Accra in April 1958, changed the character of pan-Africanism. Pan-Africanism has been a tool in the hands of African nationalist movements struggling for independence.

      T&F logoTaylor & Francis Group logo
      • Policies
        • Privacy Policy
        • Terms & Conditions
        • Cookie Policy
        • Privacy Policy
        • Terms & Conditions
        • Cookie Policy
      • Journals
        • Taylor & Francis Online
        • CogentOA
        • Taylor & Francis Online
        • CogentOA
      • Corporate
        • Taylor & Francis Group
        • Taylor & Francis Group
        • Taylor & Francis Group
        • Taylor & Francis Group
      • Help & Contact
        • Students/Researchers
        • Librarians/Institutions
        • Students/Researchers
        • Librarians/Institutions
      • Connect with us

      Connect with us

      Registered in England & Wales No. 3099067
      5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG © 2022 Informa UK Limited