African Face Of Sovereignty Independence: Normative and Empirical Dig Into 8 African Countries
Passionate emotions guided by a single desire to oust Europeans out of Africa, wrapped around the notion of independence and hid the positive aspirations that come with it. Africans failed to plan strategically ahead, beyond war, into what really constituted independence. The Europeans, meanwhile, looked at themselves as the entitled agents and masters on behalf of their sovereigns with the colonized the subjects who had to do the Master's bidding. In this essay, an attempt is made to show that there are costs linked to stimulation of human development and sovereignty independence targets. In these essays, we are going to deliberately fall short of casting the White or Black person as a grim and cunning schemer! As much as possible, language that is constructive and avoids judgment has been employed. The idea of constructive narratives in what is also the post colonial (some call it the neo-colonial) era, are encouraged. Hopefully, that standard has b...