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Africa: Still the Heart of Darkness?

Why is Africa, an enormous continent blessed with great wealth, plagued with such pervasive problems? When will it find solutions?

by Melvin Rhodes

It's been a little more than 100 years since Europeans divided up Africa, adding vast territories to their colonial empires and radically changing the course of African history. Within three generations all of Africa changed hands; colonial powers returned home even more rapidly than they had arrived.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the independence of Britain's first black African colony, Ghana, formerly the Gold Coast. In the decade after Ghanaian independence, Britain divested itself of more square miles than comprises the United States. New nation after new nation-from Botswana to Zambia -was born.

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