My heart is in America, and that's where it's going to stay!
Let me reiterate:
I lived and worked there for several years, in various parts of Africa. I know how they live.
Let me propose a scenario to you:
On the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, you have a crowd of 150 kids tagging after you ranging in age from five to fifteen.
All of them are starving to death; they live on the streets.
All of them are begging you for just enough money to buy a piece of bread so that they might live one more day.
Not like the beggars we see here in America standing on the street corner asking for money which will probably be spent on booze; these kids actually need a little money to live.
WHAT are you going to do?
If you have enough money to buy ALL of them a loaf of bread, fine....you've extended their life for a day or two.
What about after that?
The situation in Africa is hopeless as long as Africans tolerate the conditions in which they live.
Our misguided attempts to help them only increase the power of the local bureaucrats so they can exert more control over the masses.
Our efforts of aid to Africa are self-defeating, and we could bankrupt America without helping them one iota.
The root of Africa's problems is there are more Africans than Africa's resources are developed to decently support. Sending them $15 billion, or $150 billion for that matter will slightly improve things through Western food and medicine, for as long as the checks keep coming. The day the handouts stop, they will be even worse off then they are now - because thanks to that food and medicine we're going to ship them, there will be even more of them and their resources will be spread that much more thinly.
The only way Africa will get out of the hole it's in is the imposition of stable governments and rule of law to allow development of effective economies. This will never happen, because simple acknowledgement that this needs to be done is tacit admission that black Africa is incapable of running itself. Apparently watching them chop each other up with machetes and starve is preferable to being "racist."
There used to be countries in Africa that worked. Under European administration of course. But we called them racists and boycotted them while the Soviets propped up their enemies. Now the whites have had their property seized and left, the economies have collapsed, and the people starve in the streets.
There's progress for you.