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The European imperial powers of the twentieth century would periodically hold out the distant prospect of independence to their colonial subjects – but not yet, not before they were ready, not before their Western masters had educated them to take care of themselves responsibly.

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And when the colonial period ended, what you had in place of that was generally secular dictators, which say they're a country, but did not bring democracy to the country, and established their own dictatorship.

And notice, most of that went to the motherland, to the imperial metropoles, not to their colonial possessions.

The role of Afrobeats in emancipating and getting over the colonial mindset of the youth cannot be ignored.

When I came out of college, I started to try to do things contextually in Southern California, and you got into the logic of Spanish colonial tile roofs and things like that.

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