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Non-aligned movement must fight today's neo-colonialism

Kenyan detainees after a state of emergency was declared to contain the Mau Mau uprising. [File, Standard]

"Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it" said Winston Churchill - Britain's second world war leader.

He was talking of his country's failure to re-arm after the First World War made a second conflict inevitable. But he could just as easily have been talking about colonialism - something, ironically, this great liberator of Europe believed should have continued in Africa and Asia after WWII was won.

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