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Was Africa’s independence worth it?

Pedro Tadeu*

The end of Eurocentrism, the end of the fixed idea, for centuries, that shaped the political head of an infinity of kings, queens, presidents of republics, prime ministers and chancellors, according to which Europe, more precisely its Christian side and western, dominated and commanded the world, ended 45 years ago: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe became, in 1975, independent countries. The last colonial empire in Africa ruled by a European country, Portugal, disappeared.

In these Cold War times, from the bipolarized planet born after World War II, the domain belonged, on the west, to the United States and, on the east, to the Soviet Union.

*Journalist

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