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Legalbrief   |   your legal news hub Monday 09 December 2024

WORDS OF WISDOM

 

‘The obsession with seeking in Africa's colonial past the causes of all its miseries today is the work of people intimately convinced that Africa is doomed, that it is unable to take care of itself today, and that, finally, the fate of the Black will only improve if the White comes back to repair what he has done wrong: these “hidden Afro-pessimists” are hiding, under gratuitous accusations, anger, or demand for reparation, their own disarray. This explains why their words are sterile, never accompanied by proposals for solutions to the problems they evoke. They are doing a lot of harm to Africa because they divert issues that have worth.’

– Marcel Yabili, The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba