Chapter 22: The end of empire

As I read chapter 22 I noticed that as strayer talks about the end of the empire he breaks it up into various section titles. He talks about how countries such as India and Africa are breaking away from the colonial rule that they have been stuck under and are wanting to govern themselves. These countries are trying to gain independence are being a self-governing country that does not have a foreign land ruling and controlling them.  However, did Africa really gain independence? The book talks about it that way, but if you talk to many people from that country and that grew up with that origin would they have the same view? However, stayer goes on to reference a very important figure during this time that was an advocate for peaceful protest and gaining independence through non-violence - Ghandi. Stayer talks about him in this chapter, but what I thought was interesting was stayers point of view on him as compared to the various other points of view that is written by so many different people. This chapter was interesting because in reality the time these were occurring was not that long ago and therefore, many independent countries have not gained their independence until recently (in the perspective of time).