Contents: Preface -- The multinational corporation in Africa: The international capitalist system -- Towards a new structural crisis of the capitalist system? / Samir Amin -- Economic nationalist v. multinational corporations: revolutionary or evolutionary change? / Norman Girvan -- The multinational corporation in Africa: case studies -- The extent and type of direct foreign investment in Africa / Helge Hveem -- The peripheral African economy and the MNC / Reginald Herbold Green -- Notes on foreign investments in Ethiopia / Lars Bondestam -- Multinational corporations and the indigenization of the Kenyan economy / Jan Jelmert Jørgensen -- Tanzania’s policies on private foreign investment / Peter Neersø -- The politico-economic position of multinational corporations: A Nigerian example / O. O. Soleye -- The political and social implications of multi-national corporations in Nigeria / Ikenna Nzimiro -- The role of multinational corporations in cocoa marketing and pricing and economic development in producer (African) countries / Tetteh A. Kofi -- The changing role of the major international oil firms / Biplab Dasgupta -- Multinational corporations and the installation of externally-orienteed economic structures in contemporary Africa: the example of the Unilever-Zaire group / M. K. K. Kabala Kabunda -- The multinational corporation in Africa: Strategies for independence -- Industrialixation and the transformation of Africa: An alternative strategy to MNC expansion / Clive Y. Thomas -- The different modes of technology transfer / John Carlsen -- Multinational corporations and a strategy for national independence / G. Massiah