The fallacies of independence in Africa

In fact, it was an occasion to mark the 51st year Botswana is said to have broken away from the heavy yoke of British colonialism. As I watched all the fanfare from my old “black and white” television set, so many questions crossed my mind as to whether indeed those documents that African liberation heroes signed with their colonial masters in the 60s and 70s was indeed independence in a true sense of the word or just a fallacy masqueraded as independence.

When taking a deep look into the state of Africa (culturally and economically) there are some striking  but disturbing features that make me  radically question  whether the continent is indeed independent. When many African countries got their independence from the British, French, Portuguese e.t.c, expectations were that years of brutal rape and plundering of Africa’s resources would come to an abrupt.