@eurocelticyankee,
These are not our countries or tribal areas.
This is all very interesting to me. My father died fairly early relative to my life and I was quite distracted and emotionally wracked, not just about me, my desolation, but my parents together that never made sense and were an apparently non sexual alliance.. I think I see my father as nearing martyr but not explicit. Years have gone by, and I understand her.
But I remember him telling me that he thought the whole thing about africans not being ready for democracy was stupid (in so many words). That would have been in the early sixties.
I don't know now that I agree with him (would that we could talk) or do.