Would Newt return our lost colony?

The BBC's Mark Mardell asks this question in an intriguing post related to Gingrich's remarks that President Obama can only be understand through the prism of Kenyan anti-colonialism.  Is this a good thing or a bad thing?  If it's bad, does it mean that the former history professor who once wrote somewhat wistfully of the Belgian colonial experience in the Congo (an experience so brutal that another observer Joseph Conrad turned into the novel Heart of Darkness).