George H. T. Kimble, in a 1962 New York Times Magazine article, "Colonialism: the Good, the Bad, the Lessons," gives his point of view.
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they (the colonial powers) failed to provide the African with sufficient (preparation)...
None of the newly independent countries had enough skilled African administrators to
run their own ... [or] enough African technicians to keep the public utilities working.
And no country had an electorate that knew what independence was all about For all
its faults, the colonial government provided security of person and property in lands that
had known little of either. ... It was the colonial powers who were largely responsible for
the opening of the region to the lumberman, miner, planter, and other men of means
without whom its wealth would be continued to lie fallow (uncultivated].
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