Yes, the good old British colonial days are certainly over. The days of the Seychelles Club in Victoria and a few other Flashmanesque places. It does not matter whether the locals would like a rerun of colonial rule. Most of the local population have died anyway since independence, whever it was but mostly before the late 60s. Britain left its children with the Elizabethan invented, Victorian developed, concept of Commonwealth. This mostly benefited Britain -but that's a well kept secret. Its existence certainly helped to win a couple of minor wars with an intellectually superior nation.
It is a truism to say that if you want to see how a colony should have been run, you only need to look to German East Africa and German West Africa to see the legacy of mutual love and coperation between master and servant races.
By their turn, the Portugese were far too cruel and the French too totally incompetent as overseas developers. Brave were the Frogs, as can be seen from any Beau Geste story of daring do in the Sahara desert or Luck of the Legion. The Spanish who were indescribably unpleasant and barbarous in their sadistic little pleasures and of course one must not forget the Italians, vain gloriously useless and not even brave which is why Mussolini had to remind them that they'd all had their balls cut off after the battle of Adowa.
Africa is still, well, Africa - the most beautiful continent in the planet. If you want like a trip down memory lane, Cape Coast Castle is still there in Ghana. From the battlements and gun emplacements and the sad little door to the beach- you can reflect on the legacies of all of those who left from here, willingly or not, inflicted upon the countries that they came to. That was colonialism also although it lacked the central nervous system that characterised the enterprises of major nations. So perhaps you should not be asking the African inhabitant whether he wants to be ruled by the white man again but instead ask the black colonial ex patriate now in Europe or the USA whether he would like to go back to Africa to live. It is perhaps possible that this is why there is a shortage of suitable pilots for the SA police forces?