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I respectfully disagree strongly. The difference between private charity and Govt. aid is very different. Charity is from the people. Gov’t aid is almost nothing and comes with policy. It is well known since decolonization the west has tried through policy and terrorism to slow Africas Economic progress. Who were Amin and Mobuto puppets of? And who sufferd?
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So, the only way to prevent mass starvation in Africa is food aid. Private, public, what’s the difference? So millions survive on handouts. If people can get free food from charities, where’s the incentive to grow your own? How can a farmer sell his produce? Result: less production, more demand, more charity, until the bubble eventually bursts.
And spare me the “rape of Africa” sob stories. Africans had no use for minerals before the colonists came and exploited them. Left to their own devices, they still wouldn’t know they were there, or what to do with them. In less than a hundred years, colonists developed mining and agricultural industries in Rhodesia that sustained the country. Zimbabwe inherited a thriving economy and an infrastructure that Africans could never have developed on their own. I think they got a pretty good bargain. Today, the mines are idle, agriculture is all but dead, and the people are starving. Believe me, colonialism was the golden age of Africa. Never before has there been such progress in such a short time. For Africa, never again.
Venezuela Just realized the power of there natural resources fairly recently. African countries would have done the same.
Your Leo Frobenius idealolgy is quite obvious and disturbing. Africa has had civilizations prior to Europe. They had the wheel, Written language and everything you claim they didn’t. Egypt, Ghana, Ethiopia, Begin, are just some of the major states.
Do you know what happened before your life in Africa? I did not call you evil. Nor did I say white Africans are evil. What I said was the west Stole Africas resources for themselves. Progress for who? Not native Africans. Of course they built roads they had to get the loot from place to place. Africa is a huge continent of course some parts did better than others. But to lump all as incompetent is flat out disgusting. Who are you kidding? The decline of Africa was the colonization of Africa bottom line.
Chagos Islands- Diego Garcia ring a bell
Just one of many
