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how africa was decolonized: back story

Posted by: suncolor on: October 1, 2010

If the colonial enterprise had a premise, it was this. Always impress the native … all there in King Solomon’s Mine … Do this and the native will be yours for ever. He will be your man. You will be his hero and Lord. Robinson Crusoe had his Man Friday, Cecil Rhodes his Shona guides, Baroness Blixen her Kamante … You could draw a list …


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