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Postcolonialism
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Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at the time. The world was made to sound as if it belonged to other people--to those who lived in distant countries that were so different from Botswana; that was before people had learned to assert that the world was theirs too, that what happened in Botswana was every bit as important, and valuable, as what happened anywhere else.
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― The Double Comfort Safari Club
― The Double Comfort Safari Club
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Although their constitutions called for an Islamic form of government, the word "Muslim" or "Islamic" was just in name. Socially, the Muslim countries resorted to corrupt practices. Economically, they were insolvent, although they had immense natural resources; and politically, they were uncertain. Internationally, they were inactive, existing simply as an isolated, spent force. Individually, they became disruptive and collectively anarchic.
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― Final Chapter: I Buried Malcolm
― Final Chapter: I Buried Malcolm
