AFRICA: A MARXIAN ANALYSIS
AFRICA: A MARXIAN ANALYSIS Contents Introduction 1. State and class in pre-colonial West Africa 2. Tribalism, colonialism, and capitalism 3. Religion, race, and class 4. Sharia in Nigeria: a class analysis 5. The poverty of education in Ghana 6. South Africa in the twentieth century Introduction The slower development of socialist ideas in Africa is arguably due mainly to the distorted and stunted development of the means of production as a result of the relations of production that the capitalist system imposed on the continent (in the form of the Atlantic slave trade and colonisation). In n class society, surplus value is extracted from the class of producers by the non-producing class. In many parts of the world, the class mode of production is purely capitalist in nature, with working-class interests standing opposed to those of the capitalists. However, Africa still manifests significant characteristics of a feudal mode of production . Her...