"We owe these many of these people for the state we left their countries in after centuries of milking them dry."
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My late wife & I worked in the University of Sierra Leone in Freetown for a while, 1991-92 I think it was. Speaking quietly, 1 to 1, with SL-ean university colleagues, we found not one who didn't regret the British having left, and just wished there was some way to get us/them back -- no doubt, to hear good ole Jim tell it, so that we could 'milk them' a bit drier. The successors to European rule in sub-Saharan Africa have ruined the efficient states that should have been left behind, and its nothing but doctrinaire parti-pris to claim otherwise.

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