The Legacy of Colonialism

The trauma of having been subjected to play a secondary role in the country of your birth is palpable and can easily translate into low self-esteem and selfdoubt on the victim. This is what most African countries, with the exception of Liberia and Ethiopia, have gone through since the 19th century. This act of subjugation of the people inhabiting over fifty-four countries on the continent of Africa through political implantations of institutions analogous to the systems in Europe without due respect to Africans and in a more subtle tone, without including old workable African political systems of hereditary kingships and queen ships, etc., is what colonialism has come to symbolize. Though independence came at a cost, without reparation discussions by the former colonial masters to compensate Africa and Africans from this act, one can only surmise that as human beings on this Earth, some of us have chosen to become architects of deepening the wounds of this gloomy universe because we have placed self-delusion over painful truths, a la Frantz Fanon. The choice to subjugate another group of people (Africans) due to no fault of theirs has contradicted the basic intention of championing truth and good morals for adult Africans teaching in the young generation of today. As a result of the adult human beings not keeping the oath of respect for other living creatures, coupled with what they are witnessing every day, the young African generation have cursed the day they were brought to this Earth because all they see are the seeds of adult hypocrisies planted on their path of meaningful success (Honwana, 2014., Bosch, 2017., Ajisafe, Ojo, & Monyani, 2021). The shadow of colonialism follows both adults and young children on the continent of Africa. There is no more human wisdom that can be derived from the past and present political dispensation in Africa. Corruption seems to have a gainful employment day in and day out, and the genesis of corruption is rooted in colonial administrations of states in Africa from 1884 to 1960. So, the dawn of human wisdom to decipher right deeds from wrong deeds in the rulership of a person has been overshadowed by this omnipresent political rainbow that has refused to leave the skies of Africa since the colonial era.