[jmcenanly]

If Africa were governed by rational people, they would be able to break out of poverty. Unfortunately, the things that contribute to the wealth of nations, such as stable governments and the rule of law, are absent from many African nations. No one will invest in an environment where what is allowed and what is punishable can change at the whim of an unaccountable leader.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2589119/posts

[brooklyn dave]

can’t blame everything on colonialism. Need more modern farming methods.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

...assuming extremely high mortality rates and very low birth rates,...

[GeronL]

Stop foreign aid.

They will have to start feeding themselves then.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Unfortunately, the things that contribute to the wealth of nations, such as stable governments and the rule of law, are absent from many African nations. No one will invest in an environment where what is allowed and what is punishable can change at the whim of an unaccountable leader.

The Mau-mauing of America has just begun.

[TexasFreeper2009]

lol

a generation!

stop sending food and other aid to Africa and they will be able to feed themselves TOMORROW!

[fishtank]

.... i read an article about how China is colonizing Africa.......

[SMARTY]

If the billions in aid and all the other assistance they have received to date are not working, I wonder why???

Nothing will work there until they wean themselves from their unrestrained and primitive blood-lust for pointlessly killing one another.

[Triple]

If it wasn’t for power hungry thieving socialist dictators - Africa would have been feeding itself for decades.

[tacticalogic]

They can, but how many times have they proven that they won’t?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

This is a good one. Let me do the next one.

“We could build a ladder to the Moon, if it wasn’t for all those darned termites!”

[wbarmy]

Zimbabawe and South Africa used to be able to produce enough food to feed all of Africa by themselves. But Mugabe and his ilk have totally and completely wrecked those once prosperous producers.

If Africa wants to get itself together, it has to round up and get rid of the Muagbes. As long as the different tribes and groups allow that type of leadership, it will always be a basket case.

[RJR_fan]

Rhodesia was the breadbasket of southern Africa, cultivated by immigrants who'd mastered the art of raising food in that climate.

Zimbabwe is eating anti-colonialism -- and watching their babies starve. (how many tens of millions of deaths will it take to satisfy Chester Crocker, the American ideologue of anti-colonialism? Well, I guess he's cool with lots of starving babies, as long as they are liberated people of color.)

[Leg Olam]

‘Africa can feed itself’

Uh, yeah, sure and Nigeria will be landing on the moon this Spring.

[DannyTN]

"in a single generation"

So in 40 years Africa will be able to feed itself? That's just sad.

[MEGoody]

Yes, Africa could feed itself in a generation. But guess which country will be expected to fund the majority of that.

[DannyTN]

I bet if you removed all the Muslims from Northern Africa, they would have democracies and could feed themselves fine.

[Mase]

If this should ever come to fruition (and that is a really big "if") then Africa has an American scientist named Norman Borlaug to thank. Most of the world is able to feed itself today thanks to Borlaug's efforts. Borlaug is probably the most important scientist this country has ever produced yet few know of his accomplishments. Borlaug was frustrated by Africa because governments were preventing the continent from taking advantage of its vast natural resources to move from perennial basket case to self-sufficiency.

The technology is there, government is not.

[Spok]

Post-colonial Africa has been an unqualified failure politically and economically, and has been propelled into bloodshed and starvation by the meddling of arrogant westerners, mostly through the UN.

[ßuddaßudd]

I seriesly doubt that.

[mmercier]

Africa is a fine, sustainable continent.

The only thing wrong with this premise is the reality of the people that control said continent.

Africa is and always has been a place of mass life and mass death. The people there have adapted to this reality over milena. This fact escapes those who have spent their lives trying to understand causation and reality.

No Harvard nerds brilliance, or a Bill Gates trillion dollar investment will change a thing that is, to a thing that could be.

If such were possible that $hithole of cyclical mayhem and discourd would already be a paradise on this Earth.

They haven't even removed and sold all the scrap iron that remains of the tractors the UN has been giving them for generations. Instead, they persecute what remains of the white farmers who actually knew how to use them for something other than cover in a gunfight.

Intellectuals make me sick.

Drop their ass into Nigeria and let them talk out their nonsense with the people on the ground who make the real decisions.