by Seema Sirohi, Outlook India, India - Colonised and brutalised for centuries by western powers, crushed by the uniquely inhuman system of apartheid, Africa now wants to make its own decisions. It wants to find partners, not masters, and develop with dignity. Ardently wooed, the continent's 54 countries are being pulled in all directions by suitors, big and bigger, hungry for oil, ravenous for copper and greedy for gold.