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Title:The decoloniser and the decolonised
Author:Houbert, JeanISNI
Book title:An African miscellany for John Hargreaves
Year:1983
Pages:47-53
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
South Africa
Subjects:geopolitics
decolonization
cold war
Abstract:'Decolonisation' complemented 'containment' as a Cold War strategy. With the ending of European hegemony, and the involvement of the Soviet bloc in the Black/White conflict of Southern Africa, the economic and strategic importance of the South African Republic for the West overshadows the symbolic stake of decolonised black Africa in the Cold War. The bourgeoisie pays for the ideological Cold War in black Africa, but it does so with the devalued currency of decoloniser and decolonised. Ideology, the forte of the petty bourgeois, may help the West not lose this war - in spite of South Africa. To win, however, the capitalist mode of production will have to grow in black Africa, but then, if it ever flourishes, there will be no more room for the decoloniser. Notes.