Editing Import substitution industrialization (section)

=== Post-colonial economic situation ===
The underdeveloped political and economic structures inherited across post-colonial Africa created a domestic impetus for ISI. Marxist historians such as [[Walter Rodney]] contend that the gross underdevelopment in social services were a direct result of colonial economic strategy, which had to be abandoned to generate [[sustainable development]].<ref name="Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa and Import substitution policy"/>{{rp|126}}<ref name="How Europe underdeveloped Africa"/>{{rp|203-221}} [[Rene Dumont]] supported that observation and argued that African states were administratively overburdened as a result of colonialism.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dumont |first1=Rene |title=False start in Africa|edition=2nd|date=1988 |publisher=Earthscan |page=79}}</ref> The initial, unchanged conditions created discontent in states such as [[Ghana]] and [[Tanzania]] during the early 1960s over the fall in wages and employment opportunities. The unrest culminated in a series of mass strikes and tensions between governments and trade unions.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Lynn Krieger|last=Mytelka |title="The Unfulfilled Promise of African Industrialization |journal=African Studies Review |date=1989 |page=91}}</ref> Dissatisfaction with the poor economic progress upon [[decolonisation]] made it clear to African leaders that they could no longer rely on rhetoric and tradition to maintain power and could retain the support of their political base only through a coherent economic model aligned with their political interests. The culmination of the political and economic issues necessitated the adoption of ISI, as it rejected the colonial neo-mercantilist policies that they believed had led to underdevelopment.