Out of a total population of about five hundred million, nearly three hundred million are already living in absolute poverty, and it is getting worse.footnote4 Per capita incomes have been falling at over 2 per cent a year since 1980, and there is no obvious prospect that this will be reversed in the foreseeable future.footnote5 World demand for what sub-Saharan Africa produces is growing slowly or even declining, while world supplies are being constantly expanded (to a significant degree, at the World Bank’s urging);footnote6and many of the commodities in question are increasingly being produced several times more efficiently outside Africa under capitalist conditions of production, forcing prices steadily downward towards levels at which Africans will no longer be able to live on what they can get from a day’s labour in producing them.footnote7. The colonial regimes established in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had set Africans to work—initially through all too often barbaric forms of compulsion, later through a mixture of coercion and inducements—to produce primary commodities for sale in the west. 0000002848 00000 n Obscenely vast fortunes have been siphoned from public treasuries into private bank accounts (President Mobutu of Zaire is only one of the most flagrant examples: in 1984 he had an estimated $4 billion, mainly in personal accounts overseas, almost equivalent to Zaire’s foreign debt), while the apparatus of government decays.footnote8 Roads have become largely impassable. IN COLLECTIONS. THE AFRICAN CRISIS World Systemic and Regional Aspects O ver the last quarter of a century, the African crisis of the late 1970s has been transformed into what has aptly been called the ‘African Tragedy’.1 In 1975, the regional GNP per capita of Sub-Saharan Africa …

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At independence, while departing colonial officers and settlers predicted gloomily that the African leaders would make a mess of things, even they did not doubt that in general, the African ex-colonies were viable; while the African nationalist leaders and their western supporters were confident that with independence their countries’ economic growth rates would accelerate and the gap between Africa and the industrial world would be progressively closed.footnote＊, We now know that this was a tragic delusion, and that after two ‘development decades’ most people in sub-Saharan Africa are poorer than they were thirty years ago, while a chronic dependence on ‘aid’ has made a mockery of their countries’ formal sovereignty. The main characters of this classics, literature story are Clyde Griffiths, … 0000002808 00000 n

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While the causes of its contemporary dilemmas are debated at many fora, its people continue to suffer at an ever-accelerating rate. On the one hand, the epidemic is likely to have a What has yet to penetrate the consciousness of most people, however, is that this is not just a disappointment: what is happening in Africa is a perhaps irreversible decline towards that capitalism-produced barbarism of which Rosa Luxemburg warned, gradually engulfing most of the sub-continent.footnote3, It is hard to convey this appropriately.

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In the 1960s, a leading development textbook ranked Africa’s growth potential ahead of East Asia’s, and the World Bank’s chief economist listed seven African countries that 0000001408 00000 n

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Africa’s economic history since 1960 fits the classical definition of tragedy: potential unfulfilled, with disastrous consequences.

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