Africa’s difficult path to progress

The elimination of the colonial system laid the foundation for a new stage in the national liberation movement on the African continent which is aimed at solving the tasks of social and economic development. However, new difficulties stand in the path of economic decolonization of the young independent States. These problems cannot be solved when the world capitalist economy reproduces relations of dependence and exploitation. The conviction is growing in progressive African circles that the collective self-reliance programme, as proposed in the Lagos Plan of Action, must be founded on a wider democratic basis and on the consolidation of patriotic forces that call for a strengthening of the struggle against imperialism. Ref.