Yikes,
Disinformation. Yes, North Africa was a part of the Greco-Roman sphere of influence. Alexandria was in Africa, Egypt was an African empire. Many great thinkers lived in North Africa, for example St. Augustine.
In Central and West Africa, many kingdoms flourished, and these kingdoms were as advanced as many in Europe. Ethiopia has a proud tradition of independence and civilization.
What set Africa back were slavery, first Arab and then Western slavery. Then cam colonization (read rape&pillage), and the disastrous decolonization, a process in which many countries have been carved accross tribal lines, and some, like Niger, are not really viable as countries due to geography and climate.
Followed by the west programmes in the 70s and 80s, loaning giant sums of money, but imposing economic reforms which led to worse terms of trade, and resulted in negative growth. Thus saddling the african countries with debt and a smaller economy through which to raise the repayments. Oh oops - and servicing the debt means less money for education and healthcare. Coupled with a fall in prices of primary goods, the main African exports, such as agricultural and mining goods, means less income. And competing with the heavily subsidized agricultural industry in North America and Europe is impossible.
African poverty is a complex situation, but one in which the West holds a lot of responsibility.
And, by the way, the US is showing signs of terminal tribal warlording the past 50 years or so too.
And by keeping the software expensive you drain resources from training. And its not the case that all africans are computer illiterate. Many, especially the well educated, know damn well how a computer works.
I hate this Western arrogance and ignorance, treating Africa like one giant homogenous mess. That's not true.
Ok, so we need IT training, but we also need cheap software, roads, medical infrastructure, improved schooling, decent terms of trade, and much much more. Not because we're a basketcase, but because the west screwed us over.
an angry african
from the my adopted homeland:
http://www.eskom.co.za/live/content.php?Item_ID=22 2&Revision=en/0
South Africa is also developing a test pebble bed reactor, to be build at the currently operational reactor site at Koeberg in the Western Cape (north of cape town)
If you were brave enough to post with a name...
What I mean is exactly that: evil is a relative term, and it is not clear what was meant by evil in the parent post.
I was also trying to be sarcastic. This is also rather off-topic.
(My own fault, I guess)
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Why are you calling him a cigarette? I don't understand, does he smell like tobacco smoke?
Alas, South Africa also has compulsory ID...
I can't stand it anymore... it "existence" and "exists" and "exist" IANAGN, but please :-)
If you work for the big multinational, you'd better tow the line, otherwise you might find yourself out of a job rather quickly.
Yikes, Disinformation. Yes, North Africa was a part of the Greco-Roman sphere of influence. Alexandria was in Africa, Egypt was an African empire. Many great thinkers lived in North Africa, for example St. Augustine. In Central and West Africa, many kingdoms flourished, and these kingdoms were as advanced as many in Europe. Ethiopia has a proud tradition of independence and civilization. What set Africa back were slavery, first Arab and then Western slavery. Then cam colonization (read rape&pillage), and the disastrous decolonization, a process in which many countries have been carved accross tribal lines, and some, like Niger, are not really viable as countries due to geography and climate. Followed by the west programmes in the 70s and 80s, loaning giant sums of money, but imposing economic reforms which led to worse terms of trade, and resulted in negative growth. Thus saddling the african countries with debt and a smaller economy through which to raise the repayments. Oh oops - and servicing the debt means less money for education and healthcare. Coupled with a fall in prices of primary goods, the main African exports, such as agricultural and mining goods, means less income. And competing with the heavily subsidized agricultural industry in North America and Europe is impossible. African poverty is a complex situation, but one in which the West holds a lot of responsibility. And, by the way, the US is showing signs of terminal tribal warlording the past 50 years or so too.
And by keeping the software expensive you drain resources from training. And its not the case that all africans are computer illiterate. Many, especially the well educated, know damn well how a computer works. I hate this Western arrogance and ignorance, treating Africa like one giant homogenous mess. That's not true. Ok, so we need IT training, but we also need cheap software, roads, medical infrastructure, improved schooling, decent terms of trade, and much much more. Not because we're a basketcase, but because the west screwed us over. an angry african
from the my adopted homeland: http://www.eskom.co.za/live/content.php?Item_ID=22 2&Revision=en/0
South Africa is also developing a test pebble bed reactor, to be build at the currently operational reactor site at Koeberg in the Western Cape (north of cape town)
If you were brave enough to post with a name... What I mean is exactly that: evil is a relative term, and it is not clear what was meant by evil in the parent post. I was also trying to be sarcastic. This is also rather off-topic. (My own fault, I guess)
Of course. Everyone everywhere is evil. If you think about it long enough you will release this.