One of the most enduring legacies of resistance movements which transformed into ruling parties in Africa is their unwillingness to break from the past once they capture power and retain it for such a long time that they begin to make horrendous mistakes.
They gripe at those who are so ungrateful for the favour of being "liberated from the excesses of the bad regimes of the past eras", which they "treacherously" criticise. For now though, I lugubriously refuse to be drawn in a related debate over the semantics of whether 'least bad' means 'good'; but incidentally does it?
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