Ongoing Colonisation and Neo-Colonisation of Africa: Why More Action is Required Now

A barrier to advocacy for decolonisation is the argument that colonisation is a thing of the past and that Africa needs to move on from blaming the past. But how can we move on when colonisation and neocolonisation persist? We expose the ongoing colonisation and neocolonisation in and of Africa to create knowledge and consciousness about the issues and the urgent and ongoing need for true decolonisation. Our goal is to demonstrate how decolonisation is still an unfinished business since the last (indigenous Africans) have not yet become the first in their own continent. We discuss classical and settler colonialism in South Africa and the Chagos Archipelago; ecocide in Nigeria; colonial debt and tax and the CFA franc currency in West Africa; neo-colonisation by international organisations; and colonisation and neo-colonisation in research. Fixing these issues goes beyond decolonisation of self or mind to structural decolonisation, whereby the colonisers must take responsibility to repay, return, restore, and renounce their colonisation loot.