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| Title: | Leon Mba: the ideology of dependence |
| Author: | Weinstein, B. |
| Year: | 1967 |
| Periodical: | Genève-Afrique: acta africana |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 49-62 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Gabon France |
| Subject: | dependence |
| Abstract: | For most former French territories. French support and aid remain crucial for the progress these countries seek. They are small and they have long depended on France for the purchase of their agricultural products at prices above those of the world market. Close personal ties between French and African leaders continue. Leaders attempt to justify continuing dependence on France for trade, investments, technical assistance, for direction in education and social change. These explanations may, however, contradict what leaders say about the need for a mobilization of the masses in a country like Gabon. The political ideas of Gabon's first president, Léon Mba, have not encouraged the growth of a sense of autonomy in Africa. But even with his disappearance from the scene of African politics, a sense of dependence will probably continue, because the ideology of dependence has been determined, first, by the fact that neither the Gabonese nor their first president have been independent; and second, by the fear that real independence might preclude progress. |