Posted on 08/15/2019 6:03:05 PM PDT by marshmallow
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa’s problems are by choice. This is by choosing leaders who are not good", said His Exc. Mgr. Gilbert Justice Yaw Anokye, Archbishop of Kumasi (Ghana) and President of Caritas Africa, during the 18th Plenary Assembly of SECAM (Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar), held in Kampala (see Fides, 30/7/2019).
"We have voted corrupt leaders into power by tribal lines; by fear or favour. We have chosen leaders who have not helped Africa up to date since independence. We have had good leaders who have been booted out of power by coup d’etat, supported by some people or countries that have their own interests", recalled Mgr. Anokye.
Mgr. Anokye stressed that "Countries like Malaysia and Singapore have gone out of poverty because they chose good leaders". "Africa can also rise. We have been sleeping for a long time. We ought to rise up straight away. This will be done by ensuring that we choose good leaders for our democracy, leaders with good policies not for their pockets or their families or ethnic groups: that era has passed and it should not be allowed in Africa anymore".
The Archbishop of Kumasi has indicated in political and environmental instability some of the factors that cause the displacement of millions of Africans from one area to another on the continent. "We have civil wars in countries like South Sudan and Eritrea. We have religious extremism in Somalia; Boko Haram in Nigeria; the Al Qaeda in Mauritania; instability in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast; and migration of people", he said. To these are added natural disasters such such as what happened this year in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, then we have the man-made causes, such as the savage exploitation of the soil and the subsoil.
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The truth has been spoken.
Communists like the ANC have destroyed more then they have saved.
May common sense O God. Amen
May common sense come back to Africa and elsewhere O God. Amen
Same problem here with Big City Mayors....problems are by choice. This is by choosing leaders who are not good.
DeBlasio comes to mind....and that guy in Philadelphia
And Detroit, and Los Angeles, and Oakland, and Baltimore. and on and on....
2 clips (each under 2 minutes) from Mike Judge’s Tales From The Tour Bus, regarding James Brown taking the band to tour Africa in 1970. Bootsy Collins and others describe the militaristic government they encountered...
Tales from the Tour Bus African Pride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t79M_L3gl6Y
Tales from the Tour Bus 2 Kings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDcTIJu2i9Q
The truth will not keep him in power without guns and the willingness to use them against anarchists. Something tells me Saddam and Bashir know that. The Kenyan didn’t know that about Libya.
There are many stories of Africans working hard to make things better — helping others, building things, lifting people out of poverty — and then they get senselessly murdered for no reason at all.
Such a tragedy is usually followed by the expression: “Africa wins again.”
Africa always wins, and nothing ever really gets better.
Well, what do the Africans have to say about this?
Good luck.
Not all cultures or people are equal. Africa the continent may have multi-Trillions of dollars in resources as China just rapes them of all of it and the people sit in third world sh*t.
The greatest change will come from the fact that all these tribes people now have cell phones. They can communicate with each other and the outside world. This will lead to rapid modernization.
The best thing for Africa is to leave them alone. Leave them to their own devices. All that permanent aid programs do to them is create chronic dependencies and enable thugs and despots.
I was helping my kid out with a report, and Sierra-Leone kept coming out on the bottom for everything (length of life, GDP, etc.) So I wanted to know why.
It was their Civil War. So much fighting that most kids couldn’t attend school for something like 10 years. Over a thousand schools were destroyed. The new president at the time said that even though there was now peace, trying to find anybody that was educated enough to help lead was difficult.
And the corruption at the local level. The federal government put taxes on natural resources to help fund the nation (say 30%), but the local governors would accept a 10% bribe instead from the miners.
One of Nixon’s regrets from Watergate and him leaving, he had wanted to create relationships and political education with the nations in Africa to help them develop effective governments.
“Same problem here with Big City Mayors....problems are by choice. This is by choosing leaders who are not good.”
Look who’s doing the choosing.
Big cities have become Africa, USA.
Demographics is destinity. Truer words were never spoken.
Time to start believing our lying eyes.
Here’s a news flash for you. Black Americans are in fact Americans, and America is as black as it is white. Has been from the start.
A president of one African nation said something when asked how “we” (America?) can help.
He said something like “Stop sending your old clothing. Instead, provide micro-loans so our people can make and sell their own clothing. Making money so they can buy local food raised by a farmer that used a micro-loan to buy grain and a few cows. And the farmer can spend his money on ....”
I recall an article about a guy in India that was a rat-catcher. He got paid 25 cents a rat, could keep the rat to eat, and any rice stashed in the rat tunnel. Using the old methods he could catch 3 to 4 rats a day and enough rice to feed his family.
With a micro loan he was able to buy a $50 device that smoked the rats out much easier and faster. He more than doubled production. His wife cooked and sold the extra rats and rice. He said with the increased income he would be able to send his kid’s to school and they wouldn’t have to be rat catchers.
All for a loan of $50!
“and that guy in Philadelphia”
Yeah Jim Kenney at his finest a few years back. Complete clown!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIjFxjF0X9o
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