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Changes!
An Overview of this volume
Volume 1 of this trilogy, “Go home m’zungu, Go Home !”, is the answer to “What brought
us to where we are?” It describes how we, the m’zungu shaped modern-day Africa.
Some of the underlying themes from Volume 1 of the trilogy
A confrontation of values & motives
A struggle between the powerful and the powerless
An illusion of independence
A never-ending reluctance to ‘let go’
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...and questions concerning major issues, such as
Independence
Can you be independent if you do not have economic freedom?
Debt
What is the real debt? Who decides this?
Colonisation / Neo-cololonisation
Do the powerful simply find new ways to control the powerless?
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“Changes” (Volume 2 of the trilogy) tries to answer the question “Just where are we exactly?”’
In order to understand exactly “Just where are we exactly?”’ we first need to
understand the context, the circumstances of the first 60 years of African
independence. If we then take on board how changes in the world order that have
and happened and will continue to happen, we might then be in a better position to
answer "What’s the best way forward from here?"
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