Let It Go

Empire did not disappear from Africa. It learned how to change clothes.

The flag came down, the governor left, and the anthem changed. But the old appetite remained: the mine, the port, the railway, the currency, the contract, the corridor, the data center, and the story that made outside control sound like partnership.

The problem was never contact. The problem was domination. And domination, once it trains itself to live off another people’s value, does not walk away easily.