I know that colonialism wasn’t “pretty”, but there thugs-warlords-strong men-making use of the resources of Africa(as far as their technology allowed) for their own purposes long before colonialism, and murdering the innocent people caught in the middle long before whites were ever seen in Africa. They didn’t care before, and they don’t care now, how many children are killed or raped, how many innocent people are carved up with machetes just for being the wrong place at the wrong time. The “evil white man” has nothing to do with that, it has been from time memorial in Africa, and colonialism was the only time it ever had the brakes put on even a little of it.
I understand it’s a sterile argument, what’s done is done and there’s no unscrambling that egg. It’s just that people arguing that colonialism was better for Africa makes me upset. Colonialism was a disaster for Africa.