This might sound boring to you, but it's very relevant.. Before 1870 most of Africa was uncolonized. It's a lot like what hackers invision the internet to be, a world without borders or property, everything was shared albeit extremely primitive. This all changed 'till some jerk named stanley decided to get the Belgium empire involved.. Long story short, they raped killed and exploited the Congo people with the excuse of wanting to "civilize" Africa and "free the slaves (there were almost no slaves in Africa 'till the Europeans came).
The chiefs had no concept of private property so they signed whatever they thrust in front of them (they had no concept of signatures or contracts either). Also the contracts were written in English and were not explained at all. Well... the gist of the contract was that they gave all the resources to the Europeans, it gave them the right to slaughter there enemies and make force other people to sign the same contract ("resolve conflicts with their neighbours I think it was"). All resistance was quickly shut down since they had modern guns while the African's had spears. The other European nations sounded shocked when they heard this yet they did the same thing, and still do the same thing today.
Nothing has changed today except the nations however the nations are "technically independant". The only thing is, however that these nations are run by puppet governments who allow first nations to walk right over them. Whenever a new gouvernment was established (democratically or otherwise) that didn't represent US interests, well.. they were quickly disposed of, (read about the genocide in Rwanda).
The only reason first nations ever loan money to third world countries is so they can buy weapons from the same first nations (most of the time it's the United States). ALL the civil wars and anarchy in Africa is caused deliberately by the States so they'd buy weapons to kill eachother. Any technology sold to the Africans is patented so even if they ever learn anything to do themselves, they can't apply their knowledge without being sued.
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This might sound boring to you, but it's very relevant.. Before 1870 most of Africa was uncolonized. It's a lot like what hackers invision the internet to be, a world without borders or property, everything was shared albeit extremely primitive. This all changed 'till some jerk named stanley decided to get the Belgium empire involved.. Long story short, they raped killed and exploited the Congo people with the excuse of wanting to "civilize" Africa and "free the slaves (there were almost no slaves in Africa 'till the Europeans came).
The chiefs had no concept of private property so they signed whatever they thrust in front of them (they had no concept of signatures or contracts either). Also the contracts were written in English and were not explained at all. Well... the gist of the contract was that they gave all the resources to the Europeans, it gave them the right to slaughter there enemies and make force other people to sign the same contract ("resolve conflicts with their neighbours I think it was"). All resistance was quickly shut down since they had modern guns while the African's had spears. The other European nations sounded shocked when they heard this yet they did the same thing, and still do the same thing today.
Nothing has changed today except the nations however the nations are "technically independant". The only thing is, however that these nations are run by puppet governments who allow first nations to walk right over them. Whenever a new gouvernment was established (democratically or otherwise) that didn't represent US interests, well.. they were quickly disposed of, (read about the genocide in Rwanda).
The only reason first nations ever loan money to third world countries is so they can buy weapons from the same first nations (most of the time it's the United States). ALL the civil wars and anarchy in Africa is caused deliberately by the States so they'd buy weapons to kill eachother. Any technology sold to the Africans is patented so even if they ever learn anything to do themselves, they can't apply their knowledge without being sued.