"Driving down any given road in the United States, one has very little occasion to contemplate who constructed said thruway or where the funds for its completion originated. Travel down a newly paved road in a country like Liberia in West Africa or a reconstructed railway in Angola, in the continent’s southern region, and consideration of the origins of such infrastructure projects results in delving into complex relationships involving the international community and issues such as paternalism, accountability, resource dependence, human rights, and neo-colonialism..."
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