This is a complex, multi-layered and powerful article, a sophisticated blending of the personal and the political.

You have also drawn parallels with the current settler-colonial atrocities going on in Palestine...

For Western-educated people like myself, seeking to grow our understanding beyond the parameters that the elites here have imposed, your article is also a great introduction to the geopolitical landscape from a perspective rarely seen in the media.

So thank you for writing this and welcome on board, ' 'Liberation Works'.

Imperialism and settler-colonialism anywhere, hurts humanity everywhere.