African socialism
African socialism is the belief in the doctrine of sharing economic resources on the basis of social structure. In any case, African societies were presumed egalitarian.
This conceptualization is primarily a product of the yester-decades (1960s) of African emancipation that proposed to eliminate imperialism from the face of the African continent. As such, it has but only remained an ideology to be found in the historical archives since the ensuing decades saw the emergence of dictators Mobutu (of former Zaire), Moi (of Kenya), and Idi Amin (of Uganda) to mention but a few. The last such leader is Zimbabwe's Mugabe who has defined the tides of the time.
Proponents of African socialism
Leaders such as Agostinho Neto, Marien Ngouabi and Siad Barre, while avowed socialists, were widely considered to build their respective countries on a structure that was much more Soviet-oriented than indigenous.
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