Posted on 11/23/2017 8:31:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
An old term popularized by this essay from 15 years ago:
http://www.kimdutoit.com/2017/05/05/let-africa-sink/#more-1592
They need a better WORK ETHIC and a Belief in God and Jesus!
Great essay. Thanks
What Africa Needs - Government that are for the people, by the people and Free Enterprise!
And Nigeria is a showcase compared to the rest of sub Saharan Africa.
Tribalism, animist beliefs, and ignorance rule. Wonder if there was a footnote to the proceedings about the present danger of Islamic terrorism...just might be a factor in "economic progress". It, combined with the aforementioned, produces a near pre-historic culture far worse than in the Arabic countries. An essentially nihilistic "In'shallah" attitude, no check on horrific actions. The dark continent.
The forgot DDT.
Eternal Africa, still trying to discover roads and cement.
“What Africa needs”
The British.
“How about more democracy?”
Are you nuts? Democracy can’t work in Europe or North America, and South Africa is doing the experiment right now.
Democracy is the necessary precondition for genocide. If you promote more democracy in Africa, the slaughter will be historic in scale.
“Civilization as developed by old White Guys”
They have a shortage of white guys.
We just returned from a few weeks in central east Africa. They need a lot. However, until they stop being tribal, until they stop being corrupt, until...until...until. On top of all that they need LOTS of DDT, clean water and so forth. They must sacrifice to do all these things.
All of the government educated black people from America.
A 2nd amendment.
Christianity. No muslim culture will ever develop into civilization.
The Holy Roman Empire gave birth to modern Europe by being what you call “tribal” for almost 800 years.
The Africans are entitled to their large extended families, no less than the Europeans were.
Cramming conflicted extended families (”tribes”) into nation states is a formula for perpetual conflict. Add a “national” army with modern weapons, and you have genocide on a hair trigger.
And it was very similar 40 years ago.
Absolutely right. I have an acquaintance who invested in and managed the budding textile industry in Liberia. They were doing well to start, but could not compete with the influx of used clothing coming in by the boatload from US charities and given away for free to the population. They had to close down. 150 jobs disappeared.
It is not possible to improve the infrastructure when the goal of the population is to divert the materials for that infrastructure for their own use.
I met a guy that was trying to manage the stringing of power lines to the rural areas of Liberia. Every day they would find that the lines that had been strung two days before had been stolen for the copper. They had to give up. He got paid but the people of Liberia had nothing to show for his efforts.
The more you give, the more they steal. Savages.
Brilliant, 100% accurate, and will never be heeded because it “isn’t nice”
Mexico has the same resources we have but they have socialism and that is why their people are going north to the USA.
Africa could use several republics like the United States.
As well as the middle east some people refuse to advance for what ever reason.
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