Taban Lo Liyong’s ‘Another last word’

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Taban calls The Last Word a “War Cry for African Aggression”. Aggression is, one hopes, a position that has, in the more than two decades since he wrote these words, become indefensible. The horrific power struggles that continue to wrack the continent have come at an immeasurable cost. With the exception of a handful of coups replacing horrible dictators (à la Amin) with nominally better ones no good whatsoever -- and a great deal of bad -- has come of military might in Africa. If there is one thing that Africa does not need, it is aggression. Indeed, the continent would surely be many steps closer to world domination if it had demilitarized when it finally broke free of colonial rule, rather than waste so many lives and so much energy, money, and time in suicidal self-destruction.

Taban Lo Liyong’s ‘Another last word’

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