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Afrika: same old story?

By Samuel Phillips

ruth be told, sometimes, say it seems hard for me, not really have been abused and re-abused all
I think it's a bit difficult because it was supposed to be hard over, with nothing much done to
to clearly understand to figure out, but because the more stop such abuse even when those
Tthe Afrikan narrative of you understand it from one aspect who could see into the future gave
backwardness, underdevelopment, the more other aspects come up the much needed advice and coun-
slavery, colonialism and even the that seem to completely undermine sel that could have averted such
current neo-colonialism project that and downright tear down what you abuses.
we are dealing with right now and have understood. Personally, I still Almost all Afrikan nations right
how the entire Afrika seems to be don't understand why Afrika still now are operating at the mercy of
in some form of war with foreign falls into the same carrot trick that foreign powers, either because they
powers who are bent on sucking the foreign nations dangle before have been burdened and silenced
up everything called Afrika and her eyes even when we know that because of heavy debts or because
Afrikan, though subtility. And I for generations, the Afrikan people of the fear of foreign militaries and

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