Boris Johnson, while he was an Editor with The Spectator Magazine, said colonialism in Africa should never have ended. He went further to downplay the role of Britain in the slave trade.

Currently, critics are on Bors Johnson's neck, urging him to come forth and explain if he still believes his views which he shared in the 2002 article are still valid.

In that publication, he argued that Africans would not have grown the right crops for export without direction from the British.

He wrote, "The continent may be a blot, but it is not a blot upon our conscience.

"The problem is not that we were once in charge, but we are not in charge any more"

This week, the Prime Minister argued for the retention of controversial statues of slavers and British colonialists in UK cities, which he said should stay up because they "teach us about our past with all its faults"

Many have argued with reference to the article that the Prime Minister, in fact, has held an active admiration for Britain's colonial activities on the continent.

"Consider Uganda, pearl of Africa, as an example of the British record. Are we guilty of slavery? Pshaw. It was one of the first duties of Frederick Lugard who colonised Buganda in the 1890s, to take on and defeat the Arab slavers," Boris Johnson said in the article. Read here==https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/06/boris-johnson-dismissed-britains-role-of-slavery-in-africa-and-said-colonialism-should-never-have-ended/

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"The continent may be a blot, but it is not a blot upon our conscience.