"Britain should butt out of Africa"

Mark Thatcher, son of the former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, must have learnt a lesson or two out of his alleged involvement in the Equatorial Guinea coup case.

Not only must he be embarrassed for having been found guilty of "unwittingly financing the acquisition of a helicopter" to have been used in the coup, but he must also have learned that Africa has the intellectual and legal means to combat unnecessary interference in its affairs.

Credit should go to all those who have contributed to stopping the coup, for they have done exactly what the great African diplomat Kwame Nkurumah asked for when he said: "In order to halt foreign interference in the affairs of developing countries, it is necessary to study, understand, expose and actively combat neo-colonialism in whatever guise it may appear."

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