Nigeria, Aug. 9 -- This trilogy, set within the format of public lectures across four countries, begins with a focus on power, then explores changes, and concludes with the limitations of power and the shifts occurring in Africa. I feel privileged to discuss these limitations at four universities in Uganda.

Throughout postcolonial African history, an intellectual contradiction appears when Africans are told they are free through borrowed frameworks that define this freedom. They are urged to modernise, yet the modern tools they use distort elements of the African past. Although rich in ideas and resources, Africa remains limited not because it lacks ideologies, but because it is still suffocated by inherited philosophies. Colonial legaci...