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Africa and Development Rodney further argued that the social institutions developed by the colonial powers did create some order (even if repressive and racist) in African nations, and that when the colonial powers quit their former nations and took with them their armies and civil servants, their treasury secretaries and schoolmasters, there were no indigenous social institutions left for people to fall back on. The colonial powers had intentionally broken down the structures of governance that they had found in Africa, intentionally broke apart old alliances, deliberately made the people in each nation depend upon them for governance. And then – more or less abruptly, they left. And in far too many cases chaos descended.
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