The failure of Africa’s liberation movements

They rise as harbingers and vanguards of change before, inevitably it seems, sinking into a quagmire of misrule and corruption

19 December 2021 - 00:00 By Imraan Buccus

About 70 years ago, the first wave of liberation swept across Africa. Ghana is celebrated as the first nation in Sub-Saharan Africa to win freedom, in 1957...

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