Reversals in Revolutions and how to avoid them
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THE ROAD TO FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY is a long journey. It took the United States at least a century and a half, from colonization to the Declaration of Independence. Toppling a despot does not necessarily mean the end of tyranny. In many African countries, a colonial autocrat was replaced by a neocolonial despot, which sparked a second liberation movement, led by military soldiers and rebel movements, in the 1960s and 1970s. But the so-called military saviors and rebel leaders turned out to be far worse than the despots they had ousted—a frequent occurrence in the 1980s and into the twenty-first century. Again, as Africans like to say: “We struggle very hard to remove one cockroach from power and the next rat comes to do the same thing. Haba! (Darn!)”