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To those who say Africa's problems have no U.S connection. I do think African countries need government reform but some U.S oil companies aren't helping matters.
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Mr Etomi says their fieldwork highlighted how conflict makes it difficult for it to operate safely and with integrity and "how we sometimes feed conflict by the way we award contracts, gain access to land, and deal with community representatives".
Quick Enough..eventually all problems work their way back to the US.
Remember the global food crisis a few years back. The US practically emptied their stock piles and one receiving country was..you guessed it..Africa.
We are global now like it or not.
I understand where you are coming from, and I hate to nitpick, but Africa is not a country.
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Originally Posted by Vanskills
Africans are keeping Africa poor.
The United States is the most powerful Nation that has EVER existed on the planet after a few only a few hundred years...
Africa is dirt poor after being around for thousands upon thousands of years..
They need to look in the mirror and get their **** together...
This goes in line with what I wrote above, but Africa is not a one nation. It's a continent. So comparing an entire continent to one country is completely ridiculous.
To those who say Africa's problems have no U.S connection. I do think African countries need government reform but some U.S oil companies aren't helping matters.
You know it's funny, I went back to all the posts previous to yours and I don't see in ANY post where someone said "Africa's problems have no U.S connection"
Whether we like it or not, Europe and later on the US and other foreigners, too, are largely responsible for Africa's lingering problems.
We went there and destroyed their working societies before the beginning of industrialization, i.e. when Europeans themselves were still largely poor and hopping from one war to the next. When we became developed countries, it was at the expense of the colonies.
The institution of the typical corrupt African dictator also dates back to colonial times.
And yes, we are keeping Africa down and always have. Merely by drawing the borders where they are the Brits, French and others have ensured Africans will have internal struggles for centuries to come.
Africans are no different from Europeans, not less intelligent etc. Look at the trouble in Belgium between those two ethnic groups, despite Belgium being a rich country. Or look at how Yugoslavia exploded. And compared to the forced ethnic and religious mix you have in many African countries that is nothing.
It is also no secret that for every dollar of aid we send to Africa, more than a dollar leaves Africa and goes straight into our pockets.
Quick Enough..eventually all problems work their way back to the US.
Remember the global food crisis a few years back. The US practically emptied their stock piles and one receiving country was..you guessed it..Africa.
We are global now like it or not.
Would the "global community" empty their stockpiles to feed us if we were starving? I'm going to state the obvious, NO! With the exception of maybe Europe and Australia even if they had plenty they'd either ignore us or laugh at our expense.
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