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Subject: I think the problem with the Empire was...

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Andrew

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Date Posted: 17:52:59 01/06/05 Thu
In reply to: Ed Harris (London) 's message, "Yes..." on 17:05:08 01/06/05 Thu

that they didn't really train the natives how to run the establishment they'd created. The settlers left, and so did the admin. It would be like the government privatising a company and sacking all the management and secretaries.

The first Kikuyu (?) to get a degree was in the post-war period. So, it was difficult for a place like Kenya to rule itself since the natives never got told how. It was often an alien system to them. Mugabe is the result of colonialism rather than a real response to it.

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