Political Science · International Relations
UGC NET October 2022 Political Science
Who wrote 'Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Capitalism'?
ALenin
BNelson Mandela
CJoseph Nye
DK Nkrumah ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) K Nkrumah — The work 'Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Capitalism' was written by Kwame Nkrumah.
Explanation
★The work 'Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Capitalism' was written by Kwame Nkrumah.
★Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana, leading it from 1960 to 1966.
★He is credited with popularising the term neo-colonialism.
★The idea appeared in the 1963 preamble of the Organisation of African Unity charter.
★He argued that former colonies stayed under indirect economic and political control after independence.
★The work is more commonly titled 'Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism' (1965).
★Lenin wrote 'Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism', a related but different work.
★Nelson Mandela and Joseph Nye are not the authors of this study.
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