Africa
AFRICA:
Shown oppression, Africans oppress. A continent so long and brutally violated behaves, no surprise, like a person abused. So . . . Africa rages and inflicts pain—chiefly on itself. This perpetual culling and demeaning of people affects the spirit. Imperialism divided the continent by boundaries that reflect neither natural geography nor ethnicity. Colonialism favored some African peoples over others, inflaming and institutionalizing ethnic rivalries as a matter of policy. The Cold War armed and sustained the cruelest of despots.