I plead guilty to being in favour of maintaining British colonies particularly in Africa; the people who live there have not benefitted whatsoever from being independent. Kwame Nkrumah, the man who started the whole tide of African independence, was a fool and a charlatan - he allowed no transition time whatsoever for any devolution of power to take place.
Democratic institutions require building up habits that take several generations to develop - less than 100 years of colonialism in Africa didn't do it.
Regards, Ivan