A true African - not these brainwashed/propagandised pro-western c00ns who don’t understand what’s going on.
Idris Elba’s speech at US-African summit - ‘We don’t need aid - we need partnerships”
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A true African - not these brainwashed/propagandised pro-western c00ns who don’t understand what’s going on.
Justin Nitsuj
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I dig what he's saying but partnership with who tho?
Because all we really have is each other and history has shown us time and time again that cacs cannot be trusted.
Because all we really have is each other and history has shown us time and time again that cacs cannot be trusted.
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Plus this "aid" is pocketed by government officials. Either that or it's in the form of "debt relief" most of the time.
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A true African - not these brainwashed/propagandised pro-western c00ns who don’t understand what’s going on.
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What African countries need is No Corruption
Nkrumah Was Right
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Empty platitudes
No. Most aids are given to western NGOs which are a front for western intelligence agencies to push their interests. They don’t give them to government officials directly unless it’s via bribery to push those interests.
The US promised Africa some billions during this summit & they claimed it’s for vaccinations, to promote democracy & to promote equality. Is that what Africa needs or it needs human development (education) & infrastructures? Once you read between the lines, you’d know what the “aid” is for.
And “debt relief” is a scam. When you attach ridiculous interest rates on debts & cut back some of the bogus interests accrued over time - it’s not legit debt relief.
Africa can’t exist as an Island - it needs other people. However, every relationship it goes into - it has to symbiotic based on partnership - not exploitation. And onus is on the leaders & people to stand firm on that cos they all need Africa just as Africa needs the rest of the world.
Africa needs foreign expertise in the development of its resources & its infrastructures. But the relationship has to be symbiotic.
Who Not How
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Usually aid and corruption go hand in hand. Easy to steal donations/handouts. Look at Brett Favre down in Mississippi.
What African countries need is No Corruption
What African countries need is No Corruption
I used to say this but once you study it critically - it’s bigger than corruption. Albeit corruption is part of it.
Pentagon just did an audit & $21 trillion couldn’t be accounted for. That’s more than 10x what corrupt people have stolen from Africa since independence. And that’s from Pentagon alone in the last 3 decades - what about the rest of the US? I’d wager that the US is way more corrupt than Africa, however, it hasn’t stopped its growth.
Africa’s biggest problem is bad leaders who lack an understanding of leadership (nation building) & exploitation/imperialism.
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He's right.
Aid only helps you maintain. Partnerships help you build.
Aid only helps you maintain. Partnerships help you build.
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No matter what form it takes, any and all assistance is going to be viewed with suspicion/contempt as some type of 'Western Imperialism' power-grab.
Hold your own nuts, then.
Hold your own nuts, then.
Ubisoft would be great, so would oracle, so would electronic arts. Im annoyed with the farming initiatives. Im similarly annoyed with the infrastructure ones too. These are partnerships that lead to subsistence , not competitiveness.
I think we have lost the battle for the physical world, but we could easily be competitive on the digital one. In the digital world, the biggest cost is labor; and Africa has the cheapest labor on earth.
The entry-cost and supply chain cost of building a car, or working a farm, or mining minerals is astronomical; but with some bootleg(or legitimate) software and a moderately sized cyber cafe, an African in Abidjan, Capetown, or Nairobi could build globally competitive software. I argue that college isnt even necessary for these applications, because the knowledge is freely available online and doesnt require licensure. Ignorance is the only deterrent.
Would be brilliant to have Africa have its "the Witcher 2" moment, where a AAA-class videogame comes out of a studio in Abuja, similar to what CD-Projekt did from Poland. Keep in mind , that the polish company's fledgling effort created a behemoth that was 13% of their nations economy, by leveraging the global software market. Similarly, Imagine a Zoom from Daresalaam, or a salesforce from Algiers.
These tech relationships are the kind of partnerships that would benefit africa the most. Ideally, The domestic popultion would get exposure and technical knowhow from foreign firms; while the foreign tech companies get cheap tech labor. That technical labor can lead to homegrown software ventures in future.
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And aid only helps you maintain for a very short length of time.
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And that’s why an innovation most of the times are turned down or pushed away by officials.
Why change things when they are profiting from chaos