When I was in graduate school, one of my professors was fond of saying to us, his students, that "what surprises me is that people are still surprised after a thousand years of being surprised." So, who on this forum is surprised about a historical truth (as reflected in the so-called secretly-recorded "We must keep Africa down" verbal affirmation) of the fundamentally-mercantilist agenda and purpose of the Western world's engagement with Africa, historically and contemporaneously? Anyone on this forum who is surprised by the video recorded reaffirmation of this historical strategic and underlying principle of the Western world's engagement with Africa is not only out of touch with a well-established, well-documented, a zillion-times analyzed ideological and practical truth of earthly geopolitical and geo-economic human relations, but must have also been living in intellectual outer space all this while. And, I dare submit, with all due humility, that such a person should have no business with the enterprise called African Studies.
Does anyone recognize the speaker?Please share the information.--
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