I cannot shake this feeling of mine, or figure out from where it stems, but anytime I hear a non-African or a non-Sudanese speak about their wish to visit my country, or to start a business there, I get a sort of indignant, irritated feeling.
I suspect it stems from my resentment of colonialism (by association, the “white man’s burden” attitude that pervades throughout the west). I would temper myself to be more hospitable, but I have trouble doing it; I am not even really sure if I am wrong for feeling the way I do. I look at the state of Sudan, or Chad, wherever else in Africa, and I think to myself things would not be this way if it weren’t for unwanted outside intervention.
Can anyone else relate, or provide their two cents?
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