The Great Colonial Alibi: How the Colonized Became Willing Partners in Their Own Subjugation
An unflinching indictment of the post-colonial myth that blames empires for divisions that were always already there The most durable lie of the post-colonial era is that European empires manufactured the ethnic, religious, and caste fractures that continue to tear Asia, Africa, and the Middle East apart. This narrative is comforting. It allows the descendants of the colonized to cast themselves as innocent victims, their hands clean of the blood that has been spilled for generations. It is also, with very few exceptions, historically illiterate. Colonialism was not a creator; it was an opportunist. The divisions were deep, endemic, and indigenous long before a single European ship rounded the Cape of Good Hope. The colonials walked into houses already ablaze and simply poured gasoline on the flames that best served their extractive interests. The post-colonial elites who cry "colonialism made us divided" are not telling a historical truth; they are telling a politica...