_Buttressed by the legality and impunity that international sovereignty conferred upon their actions, too many of Africa’s politicians and officials twisted the normal activities of a state beyond recognition, transforming mundane tasks like policing, lawmaking and taxation into weapons of extortion.
So, for the past five decades, most Africans have suffered predation of colonial proportions by the very states that were supposed to bring them freedom. And most of these nations, broke from their own thievery, are now unable to provide their citizens with basic services like security, roads, hospitals and schools._
(To Save Africa, Reject Its Nations
By PIERRE ENGLEBERT
Published: June 11, 2010, Claremont, Calif.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/opinion/12englebert.html)
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