This past week, I went back to considering the bizarre relationship between France and its African ex-colonies, in light of what has been happening in the West African sub-region recently.
Now, let me say, again, that colonialism is evil, full stop. It does not serve any purpose to split hairs between the different types of colonialism, purporting to grade them according to “good” and “bad” (we know that in slave communities over the ages, slaves are known to have engaged in heated conversations around which one of their masters was the best, in terms of how they treated their slaves, how they fed them, how they dressed them, how much “freedom” they let them have, and such like cant).
