[FeliciaCat]

Great Read! Oh how I wish a few people I know would read this....

[Ahban]

bump for great writing.

[cpdiii]

The author forget to include another charming habit in parts of Africa. The victim is beaten and old tires are placed atop the soon to be dead. Petrol is then used to start the tires ablaze and the victim is burned alive, rather slowly.

As one whom has worked in parts of Africa the Continent can be described in a few short words:

Corruption
Abject Fear
Brutality
Hatred
Death
Hoplessness
Life is without value

[CatoRenasci]

This should be required reading in every history, government and civics class in the United States and Europe.

[Steelerfan]

Outstanding read. Thank you for posting.

[DoctorMichael]

Bump.

[arasina]

Africa. Birthplace of civilization. My ancestral homeland. I came here thinking I might find a little bit of that missing piece of myself. But Africa chewed me up and spit me back out again. It took out a machete and slashed into my brain the images that have become my nightmares. I close my eyes now and I am staring at a young woman atop a pile of corpses.

Has Jesse Jackson been to visit Mother Africa lately (or ever)? Al Sharpton? Maxine Waters? They should. Take their rhetoric with them. See if they come back transformed and grateful to be Americans like this author.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

Bump.

[jimt]

A very powerful article. Thanks for posting!

[Marysecretary]

WOW, what a great article. I wish all my black friends here could read this (or WOULD read it). It's time they understood. They don't call Africa the dark continent for nothing. satan has surely had his way here.

[Democratshavenobrains]

The average DUer would just call this guy a Bush loving Uncle Tom.

[palmer]

I am a realist, not a utopian, but there are probably many more positive aspects of life over there that the author doesn't want to look at. To live for something more than mere survival or subsistence should not be confused with the gruesome and anonymous ways in which they died. It was a good read though.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Locator.

[Marysecretary]

I copied this and printed it, hoping one day to show some of these 'black American' Afro-Centric students/faculty what Africa is really all about.

[xJones]

Bump, for a excellent thread.

[Jason_b]

bump

[TonyWojo]

BTTT Excellent

[TontoKowalski]

Bump.

I don't know when I've read something this gripping. I'll be out to get his book later today.

[RicocheT]

Thank you for posting the excerpt of the Keith B. Richburg book. He is a strong writer and all Americans should read this to better understand the tragedy of present day Africa.

[Paradox]

Of course, the main excuse I have heard for the problems of Africa are, you guessed it... blame "whitey" (usually America). Blame him for Slavery, which, it is said, is part of the original cause of all this suffering (the lingering effects, etc, etc..), and for not helping out enough today.