Archives Africa: Overcoming the Legacy of Colonialism - Page 3 of 6 - New Eastern Outlook

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western European countries actively sought to turn the southern coast of the Mediterranean into their own sphere of influence, continuing, as before, to exploit the states on the African and Asian shores.

On July 23, 2026, the UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) canceled training of the British Army Training Unit in Kenya (BATUK) because the East African country demanded legal powers to prosecute British soldiers who kill Kenyans or engage in other offenses.

The question that opened this series, whether nations that won independence have won sovereignty, admits of no simple answer. The picture is one of gradation, struggle, and uneven advance rather than a clean division between the free and the unfree.