I'll think you'll find that there are still many who believe in that dinosaur known as the GBE & forget that the motto of that Empire was "Divide & Conquer" & just like the statement made with regards to the EU "We'll get out when it's no longer beneficial" is the major cause of many of the world's current issues.

As each of those issues come to the fore, we see what you've highlighted in your post.

Solutions, at this time, they're beyond me, however, there is one available to help prevent it happening again - Make sure those dinosaurs do not get a hold of any reigns of authority at any level.

BTW, nice profile.

Perhaps he will find this: a less challenging read

If this country keeps on it's current heading, give it a decade or so & it will be the biggest Banana Republic in the West.

That'll will go well with the previous title we held: - "the laughing stock of Europe"

Perhaps he will find this: a less challenging read

If this country keeps on it's current heading, give it a decade or so & it will be the biggest Banana Republic in the West.

That'll will go well with the previous title we held: - "the laughing stock of Europe"

If you substitute "pig semen" for "banana" in the opening paragraph - we may already be there.

From Pettra's 2nd link:

Many countries produce bananas as a staple food and only around 20% of all bananas that are produced are actually exported.

Most bananas and pineapples sold on the British market are exported from Latin America, and increasingly West Africa, as companies relocate in search of ever 'cheaper' fruit, pursuing a 'Race to the Bottom' in terms of social and environmental standards.

And no surprises regarding us Brits there either :-(

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We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Apart from pain. And maybe humiliation. And obviously death. And failure. But apart from fear, pain and humiliation, failure and the unknown and death - we have nothing to fear. Who’s with me?

I will say more in my next post.
Thank you to those who have given of their time to read this. I am grateful.

I know a women from Zambia. She works for the US embassay in Stockholm.
The world is small:)

...the hut tax was never abolished under colonial rule. I will say more in my next post.

Perhaps then Mr S will deign to return and defend his position as regards it?

Thank you to those who have given of their time to read this. I am grateful.

Thank you Pettra :-) Here in the UK, we have a talent for recording colonial history with our eyes, ears and minds closed to anything other than how well we served ourselves. You show commendable grace in the face of such wilful ignorance.

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We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Apart from pain. And maybe humiliation. And obviously death. And failure. But apart from fear, pain and humiliation, failure and the unknown and death - we have nothing to fear. Who’s with me?

Sothern Rhodesia did not fare that well either

Interesting to note that it was not only the British involved...

"The Berlin Conference in 1885, initiated by Germany’s Chancellor Bismarck, set out guidelines for the colonization of Africa"

...failing in Africa, they decided to "colonise" Europe.

Failed twice, but it looks like 3rd time lucky :-(

"The Berlin Conference in 1885, initiated by Germany’s Chancellor Bismarck, set out guidelines for the colonization of Africa"
...failing in Africa, they decided to "colonise" Europe.

Germany colonised Scandinavia and the Baltic countries once:)
But that was a trade union called the Hansa in the middle ages...
Die Deutsche St. Gertruds Gemeinde in Stockholm ist eine evangelisch lutherische Kirchengemeinde mit deutschsprachigen Gottesdiensten,

I see Mr S has yet to put in an appearance.

I do hope all is well with Pettra? I am looking forward to her next post tremendously.

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We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Apart from pain. And maybe humiliation. And obviously death. And failure. But apart from fear, pain and humiliation, failure and the unknown and death - we have nothing to fear. Who’s with me?

I see Mr S has yet to put in an appearance.

I do hope all is well with Pettra? I am looking forward to her next post tremendously.

Me too.

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I'm sorry to hear about your illness, I looked it up and it seems quite unpleasant indeed. Oddly Wiki doesn't mention Africa, so I don't know how common it is out there.

You should have scrolled down a bit more:

The word 'chikungunya' is believed to have been derived from a description in the Makonde language, meaning "that which bends up", of the contorted posture of people affected with the severe joint pain and arthritic symptoms associated with this disease.[75] The disease was first described by Marion Robinson[76] and W.H.R. Lumsden[77] in 1955, following an outbreak in 1952 on the Makonde Plateau, along the border between Mozambique and Tanganyika (the mainland part of modern-day Tanzania).

According to the initial 1955 report about the epidemiology of the disease, the term 'chikungunya' is derived from the Makonde root verb kungunyala, meaning to dry up or become contorted. In concurrent research, Robinson glossed the Makonde term more specifically as "that which bends up". Subsequent authors apparently overlooked the references to the Makonde language and assumed the term to have been derived from Swahili, the lingua franca of the region. The erroneous attribution of word to Swahili has been repeated in numerous print sources.[78] Many erroneous spellings of the name of the disease are also in common use.

Since its discovery in Tanganyika, Africa, in 1952, chikungunya virus outbreaks have occurred occasionally in Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, but recent outbreaks have spread the disease over a wider range.

@Pettra, I'm sorry to hear you got sick and I wish you a speedy recovery.

@Pettra - please continue posting about your country, and take no notice of those that would use your posts for their own political purposes.

4 d moment I thought it was me...but then again, it wasn't!

why r u so rude 2 other people?
& why r u a Xenophobe?
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The Chikungunya virus is passed to humans by two species of mosquito of the genus Aedes: A. albopictus and A. aegypti. Animal reservoirs of the virus include monkeys, birds, cattle, and rodents. This is in contrast to dengue, for which primates are the only hosts. Since 2004, the disease has occurred in outbreaks in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

If I had not seen it in this thread, with a name such as "Chikungunya", I would think Asian or African, possibly Native American. Further seeing A. aegypti would further ... ?

Pettra - again a post so compelling, one read was not sufficient. Thank you. The uneasy conscience of our colonial past has not quite reached the hearts of all in my country.

I realise - given the circumstances under which you felt compelled to start this thread, that that comment is much like Mr S quoting wiki at you :-) but speaking as someone who has long felt that unease of conscience - I am ashamed to say I failed to examine it beyond the superficiality of revised western moral and ethical narratives. I doubt I am alone in having done so, and don't doubt for a moment that my ignorance of the human suffering that was endured by so many, is too shared by many. I look forward to your next post.

I would also like to extend my very best wishes to you for a full and speedy recovery.