Yet it is clear that for the development of Central Africa, Egypt should be free and independent, there along the highway to a free and independent India; while Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli must become a part of Europe, with modern development and home rule.
Du Bois emphasizes the importance of independence for African nations in the context of global development.
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The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.
Years have passed away since then,—ten, twenty, forty; forty years of national life, forty years of renewal and development, and yet the swarthy spectre sits in its accustomed seat at the Nation’s feast.
I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.
All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.