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Towards Authentic Economic Nationalism in Nigeria

One important problem of Third World development is the lack of intellectual articulation of anti-imperialist ideology and strategies. This flaw in strategic planning is unfortunate because of the fact that in the international power relations between the Third and advanced worlds the latter has perfected and systematized the strategies with which it dominates and underdevelops the former. One outstanding example of an anti-imperialist strategy that lacks intellectual articulation is economic nationalism. 1 The nonarticulation of the concept of Third World economic nationalism must be a reason…