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Dead right! Nothing 'racial' but in many ways we are trying to give what amounts to people who
lived in tribal Stone Age communities, all the power and freedom and control it took the West 1000's
of years to get where it is now. And the West is still fundamentally flawed in so many ways, so
there is a lot of catching up to do by African leaders and also their people. |
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Now that the soviet union is gone the African continent will no longer be used as a battle field
between east .And west eg the communist trained and armed so called freedom fighters will no longer
be able to spread fear .And terror among the people under the guise of anti imperialism the African
and Arab peoples can best thrive as they have always thrived under a benevolent dictator ie the
tribal chief who in turn can be guided by perhaps a form of high commissioner appointed by the ex
imperial power and advised by the more advanced nations in the UN. |
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He is an example of poor leadership! |
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I agree totally with StBalders, this is not a colour thing. This purely about one evil man who does
not care one jot for his own people. |
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It is not a black and white thing, why would you continue to define things along these grounds.
Mugabe is not bad for Zimbabwe because he is black he is no good because he is a complete bastard. |
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This implies that the situation would be different if Africa was still governed by "benevolent"
white people, like before. Of course it would not. There would be anti-imperial insurgencies much
like there are now in Iraq or Afghanistan. In many cases, the European colonial powers only
retreated from Africa when they were faced with armed rebellions from the indigenous people. It was
not some noble gesture and few people take seriously the idea that European empires were there to
plant the seeds of democracy.
In fact, many of Africa's current problems stem from the colonial empires who carved out artifical
states whose borders encompassed many different and often hostile and competing groups. European
states defined their own borders through centuries of warfare. Different groups learned to live with
one another in single states or decided that they couldn't. In many cases, of course, the
constraints of geography influenced their decisions.
This is exactly the process that is going on in Africa now, and it is one that we, the former
imperialists, have complicated by drawing up borders without regard to the area's "natural" social
contours. The presence of remnant settler populations is often also a destabilising influence
politically. |
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22 Apr 2008 20:33
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