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List as many as you want. Things are improving across the continent. If the numbers were getting worse, you might have a point. But progress is being made and that's what's most important, it started from an abysmal place and it's not going away over night.Would you like me to continue that list?
I’m saying that what’s going on in Africa is fucking frightening : people and countries unable to take care of themselves but they keep on multiplying.
It’s a grim future my friend and the relatively recent trend of taking loans from China to finance Chinese supplied, built and operated projects will add fuel to the fire.
There is a limit how long colonialism can be used as a valid excuse, since the infra and other resources were inherited by newly independent nations, on a timeline that spans more than half a century the least while still being fed and supplied by the westerners. There are nations that haven’t had the same foundations and the same level of help and they have gotten themselves up and going : study them and implement similar methods, nothing else works.
Things won’t get any better unless we (I guess I mean politicians and people in positions of power) speak about this with the utmost clarity and zero excuses : the governments over there won’t autocorrect themselves, the corruption won’t go away and the average person won’t change age old habits unless they’re confronted about the stupidity of it all.
It’s harsh but it is what it is.
China's influence is a little concerning. There is a history of Africa and China trading together though through the Indian Ocean trade route. It's hard to blame many African countries for not wanting to rely on the countries that did so much damage in the first place. China can do for Africa what we did for Korea/Japan, benefiting greatly from an emerging market and having access to precious resources. Bad for US power, no doubt, but fair.
The consequences of that colonialism has been pervasive nonstop, the issue was never fixed. If I shoot you in the leg, do I have the right to judge you for not moving on as it gets infected?