| | Retrospect and Prospect: Ten Years of ROAPE Although our first Editorial ten years ago was not intended as a Manifesto, it is perhaps instructive to look back to it as an indicator of what we aimed to do, and how far we lived up to the aims. There we set out the naively ambitious objective of outlining 'an analysis and the devising of strategy for Africa's revolution' . Probing further the nature of that revolution, we were perhaps equally simplistic. In those parts of Africa still colonially-dominated, it was a clear-cut matter of armed liberation struggle by the masses that offered the prospect of going beyond neo-colonialism. Outside southern Africa, the same concept defined its nature - an ill-defined struggle against 'neo-colonialism' , which in turn, it was hinted, involved resistance to the encroachment of imperialist powers, multinational corporations and all their works, but also an (unspecified) 'internal' dimension. |
