Anticolonialists hold that even when countries secure political independence they remain economically dependent on their former captors.
This dependence is called neocolonialism, a term defined by the African statesman Kwame Nkrumah (1909--72) in his book
Neocolonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism.
Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, writes that poor countries may be nominally free,
but they continue to be manipulated from abroad by powerful corporate and plutocratic elites.
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