Justifying beliefs or prejudices is not my area.

If it is a concern of yours that's not my problem.

Your question shows you to be a little behind me in your thoughts.

I said: "or evn just 50 years depending on how broad a view you wish to take".

I should have added "... or narrow..."

My point being that you don't have to go back very far at all to see that Africa is still under the thumb of the west.

And as a little aside, Commerce did not award Mugabe his knighthood.