Noting that ‘decolonisation’ was a word much used by imperialist spokesmen to describe the transfer of political sovereignty, he argued that colonialism still controlled that sovereignty, and former colonies still provided the raw materials for their former rulers’ manufactures. ‘The change in the economic relationship between the new sovereign states and the erstwhile masters is only one of form’, Nkrumah manitained. ‘Colonialism has achieved a new guise.’

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 289