THE CAPITALIST NIGER
Germany, resulted in the creation of disparate and at best, baseless boundaries, countries without
geographical significance. The fight to gain independence was not so much the aggressive pursuit of the
goal of independence by African leaders, as the realization by the Europeans that they had looted all
they needed to loot from Africa. The leaders of Africa who benefited from the handout of independence
to African countries had no concept of the ideals of rulership they were inheriting other than their desire
to displace the Europeans in their oppression of masses of the people and their opulent lifestyles with
the resources of the people.
These leaders’ vision was in stark contrast to that of Nelson Mandela and Kenyatta, the Mau Mau
leader, Kwame Nkrumah, Mwalimu Nyerere, and Nnamdi Azikiwe, all of whom were ready to give up
their lives in pursuit of the freedom of their people. They understood what it was to be independent and
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