The West Can't Save Africa

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/12/AR2006021201150.html ^ | William Easterly

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It was the year that the West tried harder than ever to save Africa -- 2005. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last January, British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for "a big, big push forward" to end poverty -- to be financed by an increase in traditional foreign aid. He put that cause at the top of the agenda of the Group of Eight summit in Scotland in July. The G-8 agreed to double foreign aid to Africa, from $25 billion a year to $50 billion, and to forgive the African aid debt incurred in previous years to fund previous (unsuccessful) "big pushes." Rock celebrity Bob Geldof assembled well-known bands -- virtually none from Africa -- for "Live 8" concerts in nine countries around the world to urge G-8 leaders to "Make Poverty History."

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What most African states need is a right wing nationalist movement. This doesn't translate into "The Black man VS the white man" which the Nazi revisionist and Right wing Conservative obsessively professes. Not "Black Nationalism", which will have the so called "White Nationalist" bouncing outta their sits, Congolese Nationalism, Nigerian Nationalism etc.

Nationalize their Oil industry etc, and look to trade cheaper with Asia and Tell Belgian and the rest of the West to piss off.

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"let's send them Jimmy Carter he can teach them to grow peanuts - he wants to be president somewhere else anyway. "


Check out these African kings. Jimmy Carter would look nice added to the collection.

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=19481.