Introduction: The empire of capital -- Colonization-recolonization: the southern Africa case. Decolonizing the residues of empire ; Recolonization and the new empire of capital -- Revalidating vs. resisting empire: the global struggle. "Humanitarian imperialism": Ferguson, Ignatieff and the political science of good empire ; Regrounding resistance to the empire of capital -- Recolonization: revisiting the case. The strange death of liberated southern Africa -- Conclusion: Resistance