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“Go home, m’zungu Go Home !”

An Overview of this volume

A colonisation that has never ended. Has no end.

The 19th century scramble for Africa was a competition between m’zungu nations.

20th century post-independence Africa :

became

an arena for proxy wars of global superpowers

a political battleground for an even wider range of m’zungu nations, each seeking to establish
their own form of self-interest
saw an influx of new ‘settlers’

the Christian church in numerous denominations, each seemingly vying for the domination of
another territory

the ‘never-leaving’ International NGO that ‘come to help’ but who ‘settler-like’ all too often
develop their own sense of a ‘right to stay’.
African governments constrained by

countries like France (for whom the concept of Françafrique never seems to die away)
m’zungu institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (in the form of
‘structural adjustments’ and ‘conditionalities’)
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21st century Africa is now experiencing a new competition between m’zungu nations.
(A number of whom have established military bases in Africa. Different African governments
being lured into a dependence on foreign armies, & foreign ‘aid’.)
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