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The pain of enlightenment: Discarding the colonial mask

By NOELLE NICOLLS

Tribune Staff Reporter

nnicolls@tribunemedia.net

MANY times in life we are confronted with the truth that ignorance is bliss..

But less we become too blind to our own self-destructive ways, let us not forget that "when you're dumb, you're dangerous".

A truth all too uncomfortable to accept is the fact that neither the abolition of slavery, majority rule, independence, civil rights, nor Christianization, restored the humanity, identity, position of power or culture of Afr ...Read More

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