COLONIALISM, CHRISTIANITY AND THE NIGERIAN DEPENDENT ECONOMY

Abstract

This paper has examined the developing nations and dependency syndrome using Africa as a case study and has pointed out the fact that through slavery and colonialism, the developing nations were integrated into the world capitalist system. This led to expansion of production as new opportunities were created for commodity production and exports. But the developing nations were integrated in such a way that served external interests more than internal ones. These changes disarticulated the economy, and inter-group commerce as well as the macro-economic equilibrium of the pre-colonial period. African continent was thus left in a state of socio-economic and political desperation; this was colonialism in its extreme form of violence. Now that the era of slavery and colonialism is over, the same white man has succeeded in finding some hideous and subtle ways and means of keeping us under his social, economic and political tutelage and this is neo-colonialism in its extreme form of violence. This paper therefore calls on Africans to do original thinking for a better and renascent Africa. The black man can make it but we need the hurricane of change known as revolution. Ours is a race against time. Time is running out. We black Africans have to rise up like every other race in cooperation with God to make our destiny. Nothing short of self-criticism, selfexamination and mental revolution can save the developing nations from their present predicament.