And to that list should be added Ghanaian economist George Ayittey’s seminal Africa Betrayed, an excoriating and copiously documented indictment of post-colonial African tyrannies. Sub-Saharan Africa offers the clearest illustration of these truths. ‘The coercion and the hardships, though far from negligible, seem slight when we think of both pre-colonialand post-colonial Africa . Nor were black Africans the only victims of the Arab and Islamic slave trade. Some years ago, the distinguished Guinean novelist Camara Laye lamented that all too many African leaders ‘do not serve Africa.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 01, 2020 00:34 UTC