Later, during the first half of the twentieth century, Africa offered the blood of its inhabitants, and then recourse to its territories, to a European continent in the throes of two world wars. And, in the second half of the twentieth century, after a brutal anti-colonial struggle, Africa’s newly independent countries became proxy battlegrounds in the Cold War.
然后，在二十世纪上半叶，欧洲在两次世界大战中泥足深陷，而非洲为此付出了居民的鲜血和资源。而在二十世纪下半叶，在经历了残酷的反殖民地斗争后，非洲的新兴独立国家又称为冷战的代理战场。