Colonial Governments versus Post Colonial Governments

>>3102454
Also, the picture is just a funny post colonial one and not to be the center of attention he was a little after the point im thinkong of

Depends.

Mumbutu copied divide and conquer techniques and focused on extraction of wealth.

Nacruma actually spent a ton of money on factories and power generation for Ghana. He got scammed by developers though and most projects failed miserably.

There are other instances of post colonial leaders trying to rapidly industrialize but they didn't have the capacity to do it.

>>3102473
I think it unfair to talk of governments like they are one man affairs, even strongman dictators. Also Nkrumah may have had different goals, but his government wound being just as exrractive as any other post colonial. And Mobotu's regime did in many way mirror the Belgum one except a little more cult of personality centered arround Mobotu.

>>3102502

>>3102454
it´s like they have no choice, they have to build a modern national state on the fly and leave tribal customs behind to suit to new economic models

>>3103091
Well i mean it often wasnt a matter of choice, but a matter of what is possible with their resources and what they can get done.

>>3103406
their educated classes were educated in Europe, either in their metropolitan countries or Moscow