Nigeria, May 23 -- The world reset in 1945, or so it thought. The Second World War which had taken about ninety million lives, had come to an end. Humanity erupted in joy. To many of the colonised, it was a war for human freedom. But they were mistaken. The European powers that had ignited the war were the same powers that colonised most of humanity. As the world celebrated the end of a bestial war, these same European countries decided to reimpose or extend their colonial rule.

But there was resistance. The most significant in 1945 was by the Vietnamese. The French which had been beaten by both Britain and Germany, and had newly been liberated, decided to reimpose its evil rule on other countries including the Vietnamese which had decla...