African Legacy : Solutions for a Community in Crisis

Drawing on extensive research, Bernard Lugan refutes the myths surrounding the "African question": namely, that the slave trade emptied the continent of its human substance and that the colonial powers enriched themselves with the sweat and blood of their colonies. According to Lugan, these beliefs survive because African politicians need to keep the guilt of their partners in the industrialized world alive to hold onto their stake in the billions in international aid that results.
 
Having now been independent for 40 years, Africa's states are largely responsible for their own problems, Lugan maintains. Their leaders must admit that Western-style democracy is provoking catastrophes because it does not take into account the ethnic realities that are tearing these artificial nations apart. Borders inherited from colonization are the main cause of massacres and must be drawn anew.

African legacy is a burning indictment that attacks prevailing ideas and condemns false solutions put forward in the name of "political correctness." Its sole objective is to awaken blacks and whites alike to the underlying realities of Africa's plight and save the continent from a certain death.

An impassioned specialist in African studies, Bernard Lugan is a professor at the University of Lyon.  Previously he spent many years teaching in Africa, where he also carried out archeological digs.  He has published fifteen books about Africa, including An Historical Atlas of Africa as well as histories of Rwanda, South Africa, and Egypt.