Yay Kingston……stupid comment of the day…..

Only due to European influence. Most nations in Africa were ruined by the Europeans. When it became too expensive to have a full on occupation, they put in puppet monarchs who were corrupted by relative wealth and power while Europe syphoned off natural resources and the real wealth. The final result was a total lack of national infrastructure.

When the people got sick of this, they would turn to war lords etc. To get rid of the corrupt monarchs. Usually these war lords were as bad if not worse….and the cycle would continue as these new rulers sold the remaining natural resources to the US, the UK and France for weapons

Gearoid. The African continent as whole has the largest amount of natural resources on the planet. People say “Oh look at the big corporations raping Africa of its resources”. But its the African Governments that are selling these rights. Its the corruption of Africans themselves that is their own downfall. The African people are their own worst enemy.

Mick…….so how do a people get rid of a corrupt government? Might be handy to know!

Did colonialism make the African governments corrupt? When Zimbabwe was run by white people it was an net exporter of food. Nobody went hungry. There was employment for Black Africans. Look at Zimbabwe today. Food shortages, mass unemployment, Hyper inflation. Did the white colonialism cause this or is the black African government responsible?

That’s right Sean, because there was no such thing as inter-tribal warfare etc. in Africa before colonialism arrived.
No, wait….

Like avina said, africas problems stem from its tribal history. Nearly every africsn country has sb element if instability about it due to deep hard coded tribal values. You cant blame europeans for africas problems

Further proof that screws are neo-fascists!

You do realise Africa is made up of more than one country and some of them are actually peaceful and successful?
That is like blaming the whole of Europe for Nazi Germany.

Derek. We are using Africa as a generic term. More countries in Africa are in a constant state of crisis than are not.

Mick. I don’t pretend to be an expert on Africa however I do know that the good and the bad that has come out of African countries down through the years is pretty balanced. For that reason alone you can’t stereotype all African countries as been “incapable of ruling themselves”

Derek all you have to do is look at post colonial Africa. What should be the richest continent in the world is the poorest. Huge swathes of Africa is extremely fertile land waiting to be used but is laying idle as scrub and bush. Continental Africa holds the largest deposits of precious metals,gems and other commodities on the planet. How many African countries can say they have the equilivent infrastructure, Healthcare and general standard of living as we do in the Western World? By rights not a single sub Saharan country should have shortages of food. But yet we constantly see pictures of starving people. Even in the most stable of African countries the living standard is way way below what it could be. Who’s fault is that?

As I said in my last post Mick, I’m no expert on the politics of the African Continent.
I’m sure there are millions if people in the western world who would disagree with your valuation of the standard of living and healthcare they receive.
Who’s fault?
No idea, probably the “western worlds” but as I also stated in my last comment, you can not stereotype all African countries as been incapable of ruling themselves”
Do you think it correct to think otherwise?

COOM, your point makes little sense. Contrary to popular belief, companies don’t actually like doing business in countries tearing themselves apart through war. Why would any business in their right mind spur on a war when that would mean their employees could be killed or kidnapped and their assets stolen or destroyed? There is no logic at all to this bizarre theory that “evil western corporations” are purposely destabilising African countries.

What are the US doing in south Sudan? Have they declared war on Sudan ?”
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- Elsewhere, however, from the Middle East to South America, the Pentagon is increasingly engaged in shadowy operations whose details emerge piecemeal and are rarely examined in a comprehensive way. Nowhere is this truer than in Africa. To the media and the American people, officials insist the U.S. military is engaged in small-scale, innocuous operations there. Out of public earshot, officers running America’s secret wars say: “Africa is the battlefield of tomorrow, today.”
Here is full article – just look at the map of US bases
http://mondediplo.com/openpage/the-pivot-to-africa

Jim, what does that have to do with Sudan?

They were in South Sudan to Airlift American NGO’s out of the area the same as the British and the French. So you see Jim its not all some sort of “evil plot” by the Americans.

So you see Jim its not all some sort of “evil plot” by the Americans.”
- so they are just colonising Africa for humanitarian reasons – same as their lapdogs – the British and French – OK

Jim, it’s china that’s buying up African natural resources and getting more and more involved in African countries. Have you not read about it? You ignorant individual!