Worthy read------AFRICA - After the “Palefaces” - Hannes Wessels

AFRICA - After the “Palefaces” - Hannes Wessels

"If you have a heart in Africa it’s probably not a good idea to read Martin Meredith’s State of Africa because if you do, it will, in all likelihood, break it. 

• In it, he covers, in gory detail, what has happened on the continent in the postcolonial era, and while it’s riveting, it is also deeply disturbing.

"Today, the overwhelming view is that colonialism was, at best, an awful mistake; at worst it was a crime against humanity, and those involved, and those who allegedly benefited, should be held accountable in some shape or form.
The recent book Colonialism; A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar, who is Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford, provides a balanced and thoroughly researched account of this period that has triggered widespread outrage amongst those (and they are probably the majority) who believe the actions of the European imperialists were mostly malevolent and are simply indefensible. 

Leading the pack is the usual array of writers, politicians, and academics who seldom miss an opportunity to denigrate what is known as “Western civilization” and its origins. 

They have leaped aboard the bandwagon to lambaste Biggar with alacrity...