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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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..
Human Nature--in all its glory, in all its stupidity and in all its all. Read it and understand the history of the human race.
It's astonishing to me to realize that most of human history is unwritten and unsaved. What we see today is likely close to what history has always been since time began.
Shivers.
of possible interest:
(more of the same)
http://www.neoperspectives.com/charity.htm