Nahncee wrote:

“When, exactly, has any country on the whole continent of Africa *not* been barbaric from 1800-on?”

“Things Fall Apart” is a good insight into some of the dynamics of tribal society (which one would not want to define as ‘barbaric’) meeting modern Western/Anglo colonialism. “King Leopold’s Ghost” provides some documentation of real barbarism.

There are lots of skeletons in every culture’s closets. We’ll never balance the grievance scales. The question is whether we can keep from making new skeletons.