[zimdog]

1 what black african countries had better governments?

Botswana, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania

2 which had better economies?

Here's a question: Which countries had larger gold and diamond resources and laws that kept wages cheap and political rights for the vast majority nonexistant?

3 if it was so damn bad why were thousands pouring INTO the country instead of out?

Many people would rather be working long, underpaid hours in a South African mine than live in the war zones the apartheid government funded in neighboring Angola and Mozambique.

[TWfromTEXAS]

Botswana has about 6 people and no one wants the damn place. Try being white and speaking against the government in Kenya, hell take a picture of a statue there and get arrested.

Angola's war was funded by the US. The dumbest American foreign policy EVER! American owned Gulf Oil has a refinery, guarded by Cuban troops who are paid by Angola, to keep CIA backed terrorist from blowing it up.

Unlike most here, I have lived and traveled in Africa, as have my parents, and there is no where else I would have lived then SA. Now I would not go even there.