It was exactly 5 years ago in December 2010 that Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor set himself alight outside the local municipal building, in an act of protest, after being humiliated by local police officers for not having a permit to run a stall .

Germany was slow to become a colonial nation, and despite finally acquiring many colonies in Africa, these failed to make a net profit over the few decades that it was able to hold onto them. Nevertheless, Germany managed, like those who came to Africa before it, to soak it hands in the blood of Africa’s people.

Colonialism is defined as “the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.” Colonialism developed alongside its deceitful sister, “democracy,” and these have filled the world with crimes.

On the 9th of November 2015, the chairman of Burma’s military-aligned ruling party conceded, “We lost.”