> Africa was a heavy source of anti-colonial radicalism during the cold war. However, the political problems and impoverishment that accompanied the most drast

> Africa was a heavy source of anti-colonial radicalism during the cold war. However, the political problems and impoverishment that accompanied the most drastic efforts to throw off colonial ties, did scare some other countries into not going that far. For example, after other West African countries saw Guinea become the first nation to completely end French ties, but then fall into poverty and have no one to turn to but Maoist China, they reflected that perhaps France’s role in the region was not so bad after all. At present, it is not at all unusual to hear a Senegalese person expressly point to Guinea-Bissau as an example of anti-colonialism gone wrong.