Africa on the New Road [antikvár]

Introduction The People oL Africa are going through a momentous period in their long history. Emancipating themselves from colonial oppression, they are achieving national independence and are building a new, progressive society. Africa supports a population of more than 350 million and has immense natural resources. But the continent produces no more than two per cent of the total industrial output of the capitalist world. Its economic, social and cultural backwardness is the result of its long oppression by the colonialists and the imperialists. To quote Karl Marx, for five hundred years Africa was "a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins. . ." The Great October Socialist Revolution, the effective building of a new society in the USSR, the rout of the most aggressive imperialist groups during the Second World War, and the triumph of socialist revolutions in many countries of Europe and Asia-all this has changed the alignment of social and political forces in the world and acce- 3 ii'.t' i