“Perhaps I’m off base, but it seems to me what is taking place in Africa could have been avoided, if only the people there were more capable of making better choices.People in the Western world weren’t born with a spoon in their mouths. They had to work and scrape and create the nation we have today. Why didn’t that take place in Africa?”
A worker from Liberia with whom I’ve spoken and who speaks several times as day by cell phone with distraught family in Monrovia, says that those at the top in Liberia, once considered good for the country, have become corrupt, a situation similar to other countries in Africa. Liberia had a horrendous, bloody civil war, with whole villages and their populations destroyed. The woman describes her experience as a teenager watching her father being slaughtered by an invading gang and other relatives and villagers being maimed and fleeing to the forests.
She and others fled with Western help to Guinea, where she lived for years in a refugee camp. Her anger about Africa is verbalized and palpable.
The woman’s family reports the crying out to God and desperation that is taking place with the Ebola pandemic, with bodies left to die in the streets and fear rampant.
You touch on a number of the problems. It’s sad, but you can see it in the news. It’s as if the dark lord rules there, and his minions subvert everything.