[Tench_Coxe]

"Hundreds of dispossessed white farmers from Zimbabwe have started farming again in Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, and Uganda, bringing their agricultural expertise to impoverished nations. Four years ago, in Kwara State, a Muslim-dominated part of Nigeria two hours north of Lagos, I met thirteen white Zimbabweans who had accepted the state governor’s offer of free land and guaranteed bank loans in exchange for their help in reviving Nigeria’s nearly moribund agricultural sector."

Any bets on how soon these governments will appropriate the farms once said farms start producing successfully?

[majormaturity]

My bet is 20 minutes.

[kearnyirish2]

“Any bets on how soon these governments will appropriate the farms once said farms start producing successfully?”

I don’t know about the others, but I don’t think Mozambique will. They fell so far they wanted Portugal to administer them again (but Portugal wouldn’t). It isn’t just “producing”; it is maintaining the production (via repair work on farm equipment and such).

It is hard to imagine that these places were left with almost no skilled workers when the whites left; a friend was in Kenya both before and after independence, and he described having to show people how to use the telephone.