People of my generation learned how Britannia ruled the world.
We seem to care a little about the past, we have no enduring heroes and we respect no precedents.
The colonial intrusion was nothing more than an episode in the history of Africa.
A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
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