Black Political Class

"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)