A New book entitled, “Political Economy of Colonial and Post–Colonial Africa” and authored by a lecturer at the Ho Polytechnic, Mr Simon Amegashie-Viglo, has been launched at the auditorium of the polytechnic.
The 13-chapter book with a total of 244 pages was launched by the Deputy Volta Regional Minister, Colonel Cyril Necku (retd).
Col. Necku commended the author and said it was a turning point for other potential writers to blaze the trail of others who had ventured into book writing, although it was a difficult adventure.
He said it was not easy to write a book because it required absolute peace of mind, unique sense of direction and purpose.
Col. Necku stressed the need for Ghanaians and the entire African continent to embark on a new cause in writing their own history in order to correct the distortions in our history books as written by the European colonialists.
He recommended the book to development planners, policy makers, students and the entire literate society, because it could contribute to enriching their knowledge.
Presenting the synopsis, Mr Amegashie-Viglo said writing a book was difficult, getting it published was more difficult, and the marketing much more difficult.
He said his main motivation was to disentangle the minds of people from the oppression and the superiority imposed on the African continent through the various stages of colonialism, imperialism, pan-Africanism, nationalism, post-colonial Africa, military interventions and third world indebtedness.
Others, he said, were dependency relations, concept of decentralisation and the evolution of decentralisation, adding that this was his humble contribution to add to the literature on political economy of Africa.
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