| 1 | The invader de-vastated the whole town. | |
| 2 | My native village was ravaged seriously in the war. | |
| 3 | At home, since Gabon was his, he cosseted it one moment and ravaged it the next. | |
| 4 | Colonialism, the slave trade, poverty and war have each, by turns, devastated the continent," she said. | |
| 5 | And this scenario is repeated again and again in the war-torn countries of Africa. |