why has post colonial independence failed?

[evanovitch]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">&quot;...The European élite undertook to manufacture a native élite. They picked out promising adolescents; they branded them, as with a red-hot iron, with the principles of western culture, they stuffed their mouths full with high-sounding phrases, grand glutinous words that stuck to the teeth. After a short stay in the mother country they were sent home, whitewashed.<span style="font-weight: bold"> These walking lies had nothing left to say to their brothers; they only echoed</span>. From Paris, from London, from Amsterdam we would utter the words ‘Parthenon! Brotherhood!’ and somewhere in Africa or Asia lips would open ... thenon! ... therhood!’ It was the golden age. It came to an end; the mouths opened by themselves; the yellow and black voices still spoke of our humanism but only to reproach us with our inhumanity. ..&quot; </div></div>

Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth

[Wahalla]

Re: why has post colonial independence failed?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">&quot;...The European élite undertook to manufacture a native élite. They picked out promising adolescents; they branded them, as with a red-hot iron, with the principles of western culture, they stuffed their mouths full with high-sounding phrases, grand glutinous words that stuck to the teeth. After a short stay in the mother country they were sent home, whitewashed.<span style="font-weight: bold"> These walking lies had nothing left to say to their brothers; they only echoed</span>. From Paris, from London, from Amsterdam we would utter the words ‘Parthenon! Brotherhood!’ and somewhere in Africa or Asia lips would open ... thenon! ... therhood!’ It was the golden age. It came to an end; the mouths opened by themselves; the yellow and black voices still spoke of our humanism but only to reproach us with our inhumanity. ..&quot; </div></div>

Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth </div></div>
must dig out mi ole copy and re-read...

[evanovitch]

Re: why has post colonial independence failed?

am doing dat too Wahalla...juss finish Hemmingway's <span style="font-style: italic">for whom the bell tolls</span>...rereading old classics