Saturday, February 24, 2007

Africa, a continent still in our shackles

The latest blame for the state of poverty and dispair in Africa is given to the World Bank and the IMF. Before that it was the Cold War. Before that it was colonialism. Somehow they are all related, each one representing a new form of the same repression and abuse, according to historical context. Therefore, we too, as postcolonials are responsible for cleaning up the mess, indeed. Let us stop pretending to know what's best for Africa. We obviously don't, or it would not be such a big mess right now. And they're not just 'Tribal Wars', by the way.

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