And American soccer is developing "from the roots up."

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Last week, the company announced that it was moving beyond its online roots and developing a game console.

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But in recent years, they have been less effective at developing the same level of grass-roots energy as earlier movements, including their own in the 1970s.

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Both seem to imply that the colonial inheritance of an independent class of public servants who could detach themselves from their ethnic or religious roots and serve the nation offered Africa its best chance of developing.

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