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date: 20 May 2025

neocolonialism 

Source:
A Dictionary of African Politics
Author(s):

Nic Cheeseman,

Eloïse Bertrand,

Sa’eed Husaini

The maintenance of colonial domination after formal political independence through the sustenance of a relationship of economic, political, or ideological dependence. The term was originally used to refer to the postcolonial relationship between the United Kingdom, France, and their former colonies but subsequently became used more generally to refer to the state of unequal political and economic relations between two countries, whether there was a period of formal ... ...

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