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Article: Africans on Africa.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- October 3, 2000
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The creation of wealth is a good thing and something which we shall have to increase. But it will cease to be good the moment wealth ceases to serve man and begins to be served by man.
- Julius Nyerere, first president of Tanzania.
Colonization is a very complex affair. You do not walk in, seize the land, the person, the history of another and then sit back and compose panegyrics to him. If you did you would be convicting yourself of banditry. So, instead, you construct very elaborate excuses. The man is unfit to run himself and his affairs. Perhaps the man does not even own these things you are carting off; they just happen to be lying around where ...