Abstract: Scholars have explained the implications of colonization on Africa but none has explained the implications to include crisis of hegemony and crisis of state. And that is the thrust of this paper, an interrogation of hegemony and the state in order to explain why post-colonial Africa is enmeshed in violent struggle for power by factions of the dominant class soon after independence. At the time European colonization began in Africa, the African societies were at different stages of slavery and feudalism which means that it was colonialism that instituted capitalism in Africa when Africans were least prepared for it. Also, unlike in Western Europe, capitalism did not evolve organically in Africa. Thus, in pre-colonial Africa, there was no capitalist class and no capitalist social classes in antagonistic relations, so also there were no capitalist institutions for example, like the state. So, capitalism and the European modern states were injected into Africa at the time Africa did not have the capacity to put them into practice. Thus, colonialism imposed capitalism and inverted the process of creating a capitalist sate which made the emerging dominant class who were of different ethnic and tribal origins to develop into factions. As a result, the dominant classes were made up of belligerent factions and therefore cannot institute hegemonic process which will be the way they will maintain a dominant culture through the use of social institutions to formalize power. Consequently, in post-colonial Africa, politics is without hegemony (leadership, domination and control) and a state (institution for order). And whenever people struggle for power without hegemony and the state what emerges is chaos. Hence, post-colonial African countries boil each time there is competition for power. Thus, there is need to redefine state-society relations in post-colonial Africa, based on a new paradigm of state formation that will reflect their colonial experience.