The country had only two miles of paved roads, and a population in utter poverty, as Bokassa traveled to the coronation in a fleet of luxury cars.
BOKASSA IN CROWN AND ROBES.
BOKASSA ON GILDED EAGLE THRONE
Posted on 07/09/2005 6:41:59 AM PDT by Liz
BOKASSA IN CROWN AND ROBES.
BOKASSA ON GILDED EAGLE THRONE
These people are just hopeless....Totally unable to sustain the civilization that western colonialism built for them.
In a hundred years the land will be the way it was in 1500.
What Africa needs is more concerts, songs, and love-ins by old tired crappy rockers. That will "cure" poverty.
maybe not.
The last people the west is going to listen to is what little brain trust is left in aftica - even a 2 time Nobel prize winner in economics from Kenya says STOP! - Arfica is being killed with aid.
LOL! Guilty white liberals come up with the most worthless solutions but they all "feel" better about it.
It's unfortunate but true. Colonization appears to be the only effective answer for some of these countries.
Send money to line the pockets of dictators makes a lot of sense.
i had a college graduate school friend from nigeria. he was royalty, of the ibo tribe, and educated by the british schools. he wanted to work in the nigerian government.
he had zero concern about anyone but himself. period.
the leaders of those countries have no concern for the poor. donated money ends up in swiss bank accounts.
monies donated to africa should be administered through independent charities, not the africans themselves.
Do you remember the economist's name? I read an interview over at Midwest Conservative Journal with a Kenyan who was begging that Western aid be stopped. He also brought up the point that AID's numbers in Kenya are very distorted. But I do not remember his name. It started with an S.
It seems that all of those cultures who never get past the "tribal" stage are stunted. They don't create anything, are not builders, don't take care of their poor, their women & kids...They stay like big children (bad children)and cannot govern themselves. Those Judeo-Christian based societies, on the other hand...
First of all, there is no poverty in Africa. The African condition is pretty much what it has been for eternity.
The problem in Africa is that a modicum of prosperity has occurred in a very limited manner. The disparity between some prosperity and the benchmark results in the appearance of poverty.
To achieve uniform prosperity as exists elsewhere there must be some return to colonialism and the reintroduction of adherance to freedom and law.
You can add Haiti to that list.
The link to the English translation:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,druck-363663,00.html
Isn't this article talking about Black-on-Black crime? Sound familiar?
A few years ago I heard this joke. This is from memory and may not be as funny as it should be.
Two sons of prominent leaders, one from africa and one from asia, attended school together in the US. They became friends, and years latter the one from Asia went to visit the one from Africa.
The one from africa says "I hear you are doing very well"
The asian replies "yes, I am a multimillionaire".
"how did you do that ?" the african asks.
The asian holds up a picture of a new bridge, highway and skyscraper and he says "you see this bridge, highway and skyscraper, I got 5% of that"
The asian asks his classmate, "how are you doing?"
The african answers "Oh I am a multibillionaire"
The asian asks "really, how did you do that ?"
The african points out the window to dirt road winding through a vast undeveloped jungle, and he says "you see that new bridge, highway and skyscraper, I got a 100% of that."
please read post 16
The article is in Der Speigel
it's a different culture. (/s)
Socialism NEEDS ghettos to cover the governments graft..
Socialism NEEDS "victims".. no big surprise here.. Socialist Euro parasites are setting up to BLEED Europe AND Africa again through Morons like Mugabe.. And the ghouls in Sudan.. the commies and other MOBS in South Africa and other places..
And Americas republican gov't is NOT innocent..
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