“”Every brain damaged liberal I knew was talking about how wonderful Rhodesia was going to be when it was turned over to black rule. They talked about it being a wonderful place.””
The same with the Belgian Congo. Read Tim Butcher’s Blood River and see how far backward the Congo has gone since their independence. Excellent story about a journalist who duplicated Stanley’s trail down the Congo.
There are grandfathers in that country now who tell their grandchildren about the good life they had in the “old days.” Their grandkids can’t imagine such marvels as motor bikes, enough food and such. Will those people never learn?
The journalist met a man who showed up to work in a train station every day and asked him when the last train went through there. The answer, “15 years ago.” They have workers who have nothing but a well inked stamp pad and a rubber stamp to give permission to do certain things - such as walk down the streets or take a picture. They have people in the villages who are called “Person of Importance” who must approve of anything and everything.
We have such people in Washington, DC and they all deserve this new title wrapped right around their necks.
Paul Theroux served in Africa in the Peace Corps.Forty years later in 2002, he returned to write a book, Dark Star Safari, and he traveled Overland from Cairo to Capetown
Everything had slid backwards