It is important to remember that throughout Global Afrikan
history, inclusive of continental Black Afrika, Austronesia, Melanesia and the
Americas, prior to the predatory expansion of European Nation-states, nations
and kingdoms kept the domestic sector separate from the international sector of
their political economy. The international sector was small and dominated by
the national leaders, generally focused on the trade of a natural resource(s)
that was little valued in accordance with the culturally shaped tastes and
needs of the people with those tastes and needs being met largely internally.
This separation of the domestic sector- food, housing, shelter, value
determination [price] etc., from the international sector is a prerequisite for
free and independent Global Afrikan nations. The international sector becomes
the dominant sector of a nation following conquest, at which point the
conqueror reorganizes the political economy of the conquered state,
expropriating those resources [human & natural] from the conquered state
deemed valuable for its own exploitative uses in its home country.
What had once been a self-reliant,
self-sufficient state with a domestic economy dominated by self-sufficient,
autarkic small agriculturalists, horticulturists, pisciculturalists and nomadic
pastoralists, and the forward and backward economic industry linkages
associated with each, growing, extracting and raising for their own family and
local market short and long term needs, was altered by the conqueror with the
better part of their domestic produce now being expropriated by the conqueror
and shipped to the markets of the conquering nation-state.
Herein, are the origins of an international
political economy dominated by the conquering nation or nations. True independence of Global Afrikan nations
requires the overthrow of the conqueror and expunging of the foreign installed
and foreign trained local elite along with the cultural, religious and
political economic institutions of the conqueror and the complete and total
re-Afrikanization and reorganization of the now liberated national political
economy complete with land redistribution favoring small-holders and land
tenure system reconstruction.
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