The colonial legacy of residing in a white house with attending servants, as a mark of affluence, perpetuated by post-colonial leaders will be difficult to erase.
Who has not aspired to that ignorantly?
On 12 Feb 2014 17:16, "Edward Mensah" <dehasnem@uic.edu> wrote:--Kwabena
Mmo neka, well-said!! Please, please count me among the academics who, while not forgetting the past, believe that damage done to Africans by current and past politicians far exceeds whatever colonialism, slavery, and the various manifestations have done. Of what value is independence,( ‘freedom’, democracy, etc.) if, consistently, year after year, 90 percent of Africans lack access to the basics of life: water, affordable healthcare and education?
There was a time I almost stopped participating in this forum because I thought alternative voices about the role of the past in shaping Africa’s future were being silenced by people who place excessive weight on slavery, colonialism, the white- man –did- it- to- us group. Lord, how refreshing it is to know that there are others like you, Kwabena, who want to revisit the debate and look for alternative barriers to Africa’s development, factors that are mainly endogenous.
Best
Kwaku
Chicago
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Akurang-Parry, Kwabena
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Moses:
You are very right: I have washed our dirty and decaying national kente in public. Yes,...
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