Just How Wrong Can You Get?

"On the whole the African regions which during the past century have seen the greatest cruelty, degradation, and suffering, the greatest diminution of population, are those where native control has been unchecked. The advance has been made in the regions that have been under European control or influence.

Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth President of the United States (1901–09) in his final year in office, as quoted in Sanford Ungar's Africa, The People and Politics of an Emerging Continent, 1985.