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Africa Since Independence is an analytical piece by Colin Legum, which deals with four major themes in the realm of Africa’s independence. The book itself has it’s origins in a series of lectures which the author conducted in 1997at the Indiana university in Bloomington. The author believes Africa has experienced three major phases in its “learning cycle” since the time of independence. The years from 1939-1970, Africa was engulfed in the romantic period, a time in which the dream of liberation was on the minds of most Africans. The second phase “disillusionment,” was clustered in the years from 1970-1985. Most African