‘Cooperating with the West after Independence only made us weaker. Why did we bother?’ ‘Uh, I think it was for the money?’ ‘No, they have just been waiting for our resources to dwindle. Vultures! We started this nation with potential. “A society of the people!” Kaunda said. But somehow we narrowed until it was just for the top three per cent. The capitalists replaced the colonialists. And now these foreigners take our minerals away and even shoot our miners. Every day their greed bites into our land. Soon there will be nothing left. We must wake up! We must stop dreaming! We are still on the
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