"Colonization did not construct a new
society, it did not civilize Afrika, did not modernize it as it would have
become modernized without foreign influence. Naked commercialism wiped out the
old values and traditions without putting anything in their place. A multitude
of half-baked structures and systems was erected, only to be rejected today by
the Europeans who invented them."
"The politicians and administrators of
black Afrikan states have degenerated into highly privileged and highly
disillusioned cliques with no care beyond the material concerns of their own
closed shop...Foreign aid resulted mainly in the creation of a parasitic caste
of government employees whose overriding ambition is to appropriate for
themselves an ever increasing proportion of public revenue....Urban privileged
minorities who have replace the white coloniser- of their abusive profits, their
total disregard of the public interest, and of their alliance with
neo-colonialism. The same emergent Afrikan bourgeois classes are to be found in
power over practically all Afrika..."
Arslan Humbaraci and
Nicole Muchnik, Portugal’s African Wars: Angola, Guinea-Bissao, Mozambique
(Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Publishing House, 1974)
