“..The principal problem with African economics is politics, and the choices that leaders make in the interests of their short-term expediency of staying in power and ensuring control...”
I wish it was just foreign aid. But I think the problems of Africa are far deeper than that...and maybe insolvable...
Because it is full people who behave like savages.
I’m not an uncompassionate feller, but I’m just past caring.
Our great, great grandkids will be asking the same questions about the plight of Africa.
Because the civilized world was forced to leave.
Sorry, but whenever I hear about Africa it reminds me of (some) of the immortal words of Sam Kinison:
“Don’t send them food - send them U-Hauls. Get your kids, get your sh*t, we’ll make one trip. We’ll take to you where the food is”
RIP Sam - we miss your words of wisdom down here.
The image of a group of crabs in a bucket come to mind.
Just think. Our current President is the son of one of these worthless parasitic African socialist leaders, crossed with a narcissistic expatriate hippie girl from a family of American fellow travelers. He’s genetically engineered to be a high-yield producer of disaster.
Because the rest of humanity evolved and moved the hell away from anything to do with Africa. Those left behind are primitives who haven’t the intelligence to make it better or leave themselves.
For a host of reasons, Tribal rather than national approaches, access to debt instruments beyond the ability to pay, just a host of reasons.
Sadly, only two things ever temporarily glued parts of Sub Saharan Africa together:
-Colonialism
-Communism
And thost NGO aid groups pretty much discourage local food production, how can they compete with “free”?
Sadly, FR is one of the few public forums where the politically incorrect truths spoken in most of the responses above, can be aired.
Aren’t there a lot of moooslems in Africa? Stone-age societies are by definition, poor.
Socialism and greed. It fails everywhere it’s tried.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations
One Look at the IQ in Sub Sahara Africa tells the taletells the tale.
Sam Kinison had the answer.
I’d like to see this question answered with pictures. It’d be funny. Someone should start with cell phone lip disk guy.
That said, things are never going to change there, because telling Africans that they have to behave like non-Africans is considered Racist. The Africans themselves resist this kind of change, yet they still clamor for foreign aid. This will not change, not in the foreseeable future.
Tribalism, tribal politics, tribal traditions, tribal customs amounting to all of the above. I said this when I was a 19 year old college student and I will say it again at 60. Leave them alone, let them die, you can do whatever you want to help them and they will either kill you, run you out or refuse any help or change. That is the root cause; they will not change their ways for all of the reasons listed above. If you manage to save 1% of the children it will make no difference because they will not change their tribal, political, religious or cultural practices that are causing them to die. Let them die; helping them over all of these years only allows them to postpone their demise as a culture and to do the same self-destructive things over and over.
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of their folly is to fill the world with fools.” - Herbert Spencer
The problem with Africa is black Africans. The white Africans brought order and prosperity out of chaos. Since Africa has been given back to black Africans, it has returned to the jungle. This should be a lesson for America. Obama lives like an African tribal chief with one party after another and more vacation than work. I know that this is not politically correct, and many will say that I am being racist, but observe the actions and words of Obama. You make the judgment for yourself.