It’s interesting...
on the one hand, I found an article lamenting the high youth unemployment due to better-Educated Kenyans getting all the jobs and Tanzania’s population having a very high percentage of yourh.
Then there’s another article lamenting child labor in the mines... so the NGOs are pushing for a crackdown on mines, especially “unlicensed” ones, as if taking the jobs away will then give kids more time to study. The problem I see with that is that the crackdown will put the heaviest pressure on locally owned mines while multinational mines will have no problem getting licenses and bribing inspectors, so eventually all the land will be in foreign hands, and jobless kids still won’t be able to study.
Of course as it happens, the Clintons have been nosing around Tanzania and this is also where one of Hillary’s helpers has been investing... the one with a company called Black Ivy.
Tanzania’s Troubles Over Gas Revenue : Sharing the Spoils
http://www.economist.com/blogs/baobab/2014/09/tanzanias-troubles-over-gas-revenue
Bill Clinton’s Plane Makes Unscheduled Landing in Tanzania [with Chelsea]; April 2015
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-clintons-plane-makes-unscheduled-landing-in-tanzania/
I had a professor from West Africa who was very well-educated and very conservative. He came into class one day very pissed off. He had watched a (probably PBS) documentary about coconut plantations that presented the same child-labor argument. He explained very graphically to the class how those ‘evil plantations’ gave him his only opportunity to get an education. Legal immigrants can often shame most Americans with their understanding of history and economics.
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