"Imperialism was based on the exploitation of poorer nations"
.,,.,.

Hohum Jim. Earwig-o again. Haven't we had this converasation before, just! Don't know how much experience of post-imperialism you have actually had. But I state as an absolute fact that when I spent a couple of months working as British Council Lecturer in English Folksong at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, 1990-91, not a single one of my SL-ian colleagues failed to express constant regret at the withdrawal of the British and the granting of Independence in 1961. They had been gone 30 years; and there wasn't a single metalled road really fit to drive on left in the whole country by then, and the railway system had ceased to exist -- a previous prime minister having pulled up all the rails and sold them as scrap metal and kept the money for himself. It was a few months after I left that the civil war, with those notorious hundreds of wanton and sadistic amputations, broke out; my late wife Valerie, having stayed on behind me, only just contrived to get out in time.

I repeat: not a single one of my SL-ian colleagues did not regret the withdrawal of the British and the granting of Independence in 1961.

Count them -- NONE!

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