This introductory chapter provides an overview of this book, which broadly X-rays the implications of colonisation on socio-economic development in Africa. Most of the late 1950s and 1960s were characterised by a wind of celebrations across Africa as many countries on the continent experienced nominal political independence from the European countries that colonised them. Independence represented freedom from foreign domination, oppression and exploitation and it entailed resuscitating, redirecting and re-engineering African indigenous perceptions, preconceptions and the development trajectory for Africa by Africans. The various perspectives articulated in this book anchor on the central argument that the erstwhile colonialists have continued to prey on their former colonies, including, in particular, those in Africa through established internal structures and systems as well as assimilation-oriented international mechanisms put in place prior to the granting of political independence to the colonies. In providing an overview of the book, this chapter opens with a general background to Africa’s colonial history. It proceeds to analyse how colonial governance models have been used as indices for sustained influence in Africa and then, further discusses the place of Africa within the contemporary global development set-up. The various chapters of the book are then briefly summarised.