Pan Africanism Or Neo-Colonialism?: The Bankruptcy of the O.A.U.

Pan Africanism or Neo-Colonialism? was first published in French by the Union des Populations du Cameroun (U.P.C.) in 1975 under the title PanAfricanisme et Neocolonialisme. First published in revised and expanded edition in English by the UPC. and Zed Press, 57 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DN in 1982. "[...] This is much more than a history of the O.A.U.'s over the past 18 years. It is a manifesto suggesting how to achieve real Pan-African Unity - which can only come about with the abolition of petty-bourgeois regimes and the pursuit by Africa's workers and peasants of a socialist economic path. This book has already been through two editions in French. It reflects the maturing analysis of one of Africa's oldest and most radical nationalist movements, the Union des Populations du Cameroun (U.P.C.). The author, Elenga Mbuyinga [nom de plume of Moukoko Priso], has skilfully combined a scholarly analysis with a clear political intention: to show that there has been, over the past two decades since independence in Africa, an ineluctable relationship between bourgeois rule, economic failure, and continental disunity. The politically explosive argument is developed through analysing the dominant tendencies of Western capitalism since 1960, and the consequence these have had for the evolution of the economies of African countries. Having outlined the failure to solve the problems of poverty, the author recounts the parallel failure at the political level - what he calls Pan-African Demagogy. And he does not spare even many of the self-proclaimed revolutionary regimes like Guinea-Conakry, from criticism. Using a rich series of examples, the bankruptcy of the O.A.U. is outlined, and the economic and political requirements for Revolutionary Pan-Africanism set out."