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Restoring The Honor Code

The two sisters: aid and debt in Afrika

frika’s wave of faux-indepen-
dence from colonialism left
high potential countries – per
Aglobal standards of develop-
ment – which were sadly lost, culturally,
and disengaged from what was and seem-
ingly ‘unable’ to come together to find
out what should now be. Most of these
countries did not exist before the impe-
rialist wave and immediately following it,
these newly formed nation states were
left trying to manage entities that were
created primarily for the oppression of
and extraction of resources from Afrika.

Entities that were carved out using a di-
vide and conquer mindset were now sud-
denly supposed to evolve into cohesive
united fronts, with infrastructure and
systems in place for effective administra-
tion (or were they?). All this while being
manipulated by the main players in the
Cold War and being governed by indi-
viduals or groupings that were engaged
in the pursuit of their own self-interests.

Prior to the colonization of Afrika, we
were not receiving aid. Aid came with
colonization. The home countries of the

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