In this book John Saul takes us back to the grim reality of post-liberation
southern Africa and to the forms of resistance that the re-subordination of
the continent calls for. In the process he exposes and contests the rhetoric
that serves as apologia for the ???Empire of Capital???, and shows the linkages
between inequalities and injustices reinforced by the ???free??? market on the
one hand and the assertive religiosity and ethnic messianism which the
???Empire??? helps to emerge and then uses as ???justification??? for renewed
imperialist intervention. His book makes a significant contribution to
the discussion on Imperialism and