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"NIXON DOCTRINE" AND AFRICA  OBATALA

in many instances better) than local currency. American Express Cheques can be purchased at any of the numerous branch offices which are distributed throughout Africa or at the Bank of West Africa (British) or at Chase Manhattan in Monrovia, Liberia. Bank of America also has its own branch outlet in Lagos, Nigeria, Nigeria's "traditional music" is produced almost entirely on Decca Record labels. Among the leading cigarettes in West Africa are Philip Morris, Viceroy and Texans. In fact, Philip Morris has an extensive tobacco complex in Nigeria. As a measure of the extent of its operations, it is instructive to note that Target Cigarettes, a Philip Morris product, produced in Nigeria, sponsors weekly programming on Nigerian national television; it is even more instructive to note that Philip Morris deemed its Nigerian market important enough to pay James Brown 40,000 pounds (roughly $120,000) to do a two week tour of Nigeria's major cities on behalf of the company.
And finally, Africa and other underdeveloped countries are not only receptacles of American surplus capital, but as the machinery of U.S. imperialism expands, these countries also become receptacles of American surplus population. In the Congo (Kinshasa) alone there are over 3,000 Americans, not including missionaries and diplomatic personnel. Add to this thousands of other American Peace Corps workers, exchange students, tourists, military and diplomatic personnel and missionaries who are presently working, visiting and studying in such American client states as Liberia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco and Tunisia and you will easily have enough people to populate one or more major American cities.

neo-colonialism and the mass media
This social and political value which the U.S. derives from its domination of Africa and other developing areas does not come out in the largely falsified statistics which bourgeois theoreticians so often flaunt in the face of the American reading public in their effort to create and sustain the erroneous notion that American interest in Africa is still "minimal" (if indeed it ever was; the magnitude of the slave trade would tend to belie such a notion).
In order to protect its interest in Africa, the American ruling class ruling class has devised a comprehensive program of propaganda, deception, corruption, espionage, blackmail and brainwashing. Among the common everyday items utilized by American imperialism in its efforts to exercise control over the lives of Africans without resorting to military conquest are women and men, books, magazines, newspapers, radios, 

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