How else would you have it though? We can’t force democracy on these nations. Apparently they can’t create functioning legal institutions. There just doesn’t seem to be a way to accurately represent the will of the people without also being actively involved in the geopolitics of the region.
I never claimed to have a solution to that problem.
I was just pointing out the flaw in the idea that just because some native Africans participated in the foreign colonial exploitation of Africa, it somehow lessens the degree of culpability for the exploitation itself.