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An illusion of independence

“Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to
remember the depths from which we started.”

Kwame Nkrumah

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De-colonisation is not the same as independence. Africa was given an illusion. A dream
of independence.

It was the growing realisation of the cost of running their colonies, combined with the

increasing resistance to colonial rule, that finally led to the acceptance among colonial
powers of the need for de-colonisation.

It’s simply wrong to refer to colonial powers granting independence. As a description
of a territory’s legal status, that may be true. But it obscures the reality that Africa was

independent before the m’zungu came and imposed himself. The time of African
independence is merely a time when, in the eyes of the wider world, African nations gained

a legal status of independence.