[LenS]

Isn't that the real problem? Geography and climate have made civilizations few and far between south of the Sahara. The conquests and colonizations of the late 19th century were, sadly, a major step forward for this region. European barbarians took centuries to civilize. It's only been a bit more than a century in Africa. Still, the pressures of the rest of the world will force improvements at a historically faster rate than occurred in Europe. It just will seem slow to us since we measure events in decades, not centuries or millenia.

[nopardons]

South Africa was settled by WHITES , more than THREE HUNDRED years ago. The Zulus, were much more " civilized " than the other tribes. The Xhosa, whom the Zulus brought into the region as slaves , long AFTER the Afrikaners came to S.A., are the majority of the ANC, who is now running South Africa. The Afrikaners tried to educate ALL of the blacks. Many resisited it, after Mandela made an impossible to fulfill request, which, in turn, led to the burning down of schools, and a generation of ill educated / not educated/ partially educated , now adults.

No, those people will NOT quickly be " civilized " If anything, they are reverting to Stone Age tribalism, varnished heavily with COMMUNISM ! The educated and civilized blacks, are fleeing, in large numbers.

[A CA Guy]

Israel was all sand and they made a treasure out of it.

[wardaddy]

Wishful thinking. Western civilization is as much about migrations as it is being civilized by Greeks or Romans. Are you saying there were no people in sub -Saharan Africa?

Or are you saying that it's up to whites to civilize them? There have been whites in southern Africa for 400 years. There was no wheel or written phonetic language in the aforementioned region until Arab and Iberian sailors arrived in West Africa nearly 800 years ago now. Who's "fault" is that?

Southern Africa is reverting to form....quite the opposite of accelerated civilizing due to world pressure.