To McGrath of Harlow, At the risk of appearing to argue the case for English colonialism, let me say that you are mistaken in your assertion that the english speaking colonizers were genocidal in their administrations of their colonies. While they were certainly no angels and were self serving, when compared to the other European nations ( Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany )who colonized Africa, Britain left their former colonies with the infrastuctures still in place for those colonies to develop democratic states. In most cases good transportation systems and education systems were also a couple of the benefits from having been exploited by the Brits.