Then to claim that the country was a latrine, you would have to show that an entire country looked and smelled like a latrine.
You presume incorrectly that cities inherently civilized.
In that cities are organized communities with governments and laws, I would say that they are inherently civilized in the Latin sense of the word.
Safer than just about anywhere in the Niger.
Perhaps you'd like to take a dip on a lazy, humid, August day?
I don't recall any mainstream jazz musician who glorified the great African hip-hop "cultural" contributions of rape and gang shootouts in his music.
It's actually more common in the Delta blues of the 1920s. Perhaps you can denigrate Mississippi "culture" now.
[...]slavery reparations, whining about colonial imperialism[...]
If you don't think that the crime of slavery should go unpunished, or that colonialism is preferable to freedom, perhaps you should frequent a different forum. This is a site for conservatives who believe in the rule of law and in a higher law and in the God-given right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
and all of it wrapped up in badly translated marxist jargon.
To paraphrase Harvey Mansfield: If you think this is a bad translation, give us a better one.
Oops. If you do think that the crime of slavery should go unpunished.
No, just a substantive and representative sample to indicate its prevalence. The Niger river and its street gutter tributaries suffice for that purpose.
In that cities are organized communities with governments and laws
It's a very dubious assertion in many african cities that (1) they are organized, (2) they have functioning governments, and (3) they operate under a rule of law. More often than not its a clutter of haphazard slum construction with no clear functioning authority and uncontrolled roving bandits, gangs, and militias staking out turf by way of coercion and intimidation...in other words the very antithesis of civilization. Simply having a bunch of people in the same place doesn't make it civilized. Without law, it only makes it crowded and smelly.
I would say that they are inherently civilized in the Latin sense of the word.
Which would mean that Africa unfortunately learned very little from its encounter with Latin society.
It's actually more common in the Delta blues of the 1920s. Perhaps you can denigrate Mississippi "culture" now.
Blues music transcends the brothel songs and bawdy minstrel routines that characterized its lesser forms, leaving the non-profane as its more celebrated examples today. The same cannot be said of your favored form of atonal expression, as mainstream hip-hop and gang rape are largely synonymous.
If you don't think that the crime of slavery should go unpunished
It's perpetrators in the civilized world have been dead for over 100 years now. Are you advocating digging up corpses and subjecting them to indigenous African "religious" rituals?
or that colonialism is preferable to freedom
If a particular colony is incapable of governing itself, then yes. Robert Mugabe has more than amply demonstrated that to be the case.
To paraphrase Harvey Mansfield: If you think this is a bad translation, give us a better one.
Thanks but no thanks. What I see of the articles provided does not indicate that their quality or content is deserving of any further energy or attention.