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Wilbur Smith

I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was b

Wilbur Smith

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Wilbur Smith is saying that he does not predict the future through guesswork but by studying past events, and based on that, he believes Africa will regain its original identity rather than continue to reflect European influence. He views colonialism as an external imposition that disrupted Africa's natural state, which he expects will eventually be restored.

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