The Scramble for Africa - Documentary on African Colonialism

[Poitier]

I personally don't think the DRC is fine. At least not the Eastern half of the country.

At this moment? No. After Kenya connects the whole region via Kenya Vision 2030? Yes.

I have more hope in SADC than Ecowas. Most Ecowas countries are not even fully independent from France.

ECOWAS rejected that EU deal which is a start. Intra-African trade is abysmal and this is a goes a long way to address that.

 

[Sonni]

ECOWAS rejected that EU deal which is a start. Intra-African trade is abysmal and this is a goes a long way to address that.

yeah, that was positive.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

@Poitier

I guess we'll see.

 

[TMNT4000]

Congo and Nigeria together now you know cacs in trouble.

Is Congo working with Nigeria?

Nigeria IMO is future of what all of Africa could look like if they weren't interfered with by the west. Majority of the worlds black billionaires are Nigerian and they have the 3rd largest film industry in the world (Nollywood) and is on path to become a world superpower.

I'm gonna do some more research, but I remember reading somewhere that the violence in Nigeria is directly linked to the what happened during colonialism. Not to mention the boko haram being funded by the CIA

Now Nollywood has become the second largest film industry in the world.

 

[#1 pick]

Is Congo working with Nigeria?

Now Nollywood has become the second largest film industry in the world.

@Dreamestorical

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Nollywood may be the second largest film industry, but it needs A LOT of work especially in quality. There are some YouTube films that have better film quality than some most Nollywood films. I'm sorry but its the truth. If the diaspora wants to help with Africa then I think helping Nollywood would be very beneficial....

 

[Poitier]

This is huge.

 

[Poitier]

Nollywood may be the second largest film industry, but it needs A LOT of work especially in quality. There are some YouTube films that have better film quality than some most Nollywood films. I'm sorry but its the truth. If the diaspora wants to help with Africa then I think helping Nollywood would be very beneficial....

Yeah, they have the quality of Black 70s and 80s films at the moment.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

I recommended this book in another thread already but How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney is an excellent piece of work on this subject. He breaks it down from the earliest economic/political relations between Africans and Europeans to the colonial epoch. It's really crazy how pretty much all Black people across the globe have either been exploited or made to be permanent 2nd class citizens.

The best way I can describe Africa now is a continent size gentrification opportunity that all Black people have to get with because the Chinese and Europeans are already on the ground looking to re-establish what once was. Black people having been exploited everywhere, would probably find it prudent to work with other Black people in this tough position and use the resources of the West to not only help industrialize Africa but to bring African wealth to the Black communities of the West to bring prosperity.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Interesting read for "back to Africa" people:
http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/08/22/africas-middle-class-booming-while-americas-shrinking

Here’s the latest piece of evidence that things in the developing world are much better than you think: A new study finds that the number of middle-class households in sub-Saharan Africa has tripled since the turn of the century and is on track to nearly triple again—to more than 40 million—by 2030.

The study, by South Africa–based Standard Bank, the continent’s biggest lender, examined 11 African countries, excluding relatively wealthy South Africa. It found that about 15 million of the 110 million households in Angola, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia are lower middle class and middle class, consuming from $15 to $115 a day.

“Between 2000 and 2014, we’ve seen a tripling of middle-class households across these 11 countries,” Simon Freemantle, a political economist at Standard Bank, told Bloomberg. “It confirms that idea that Africa has structurally changed, that there has been real improvement in the last 10 years.” Some countries saw even stronger gains: In Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, the middle class has grown by 600 percent since 2000.

This is just the beginning. The Standard Bank researchers predict that the number of middle-class households in those countries will swell from today’s 15 million to more than 40 million by 2030. The growth is being driven by surging foreign investment, development of oil, gas, and other natural resources, and the gradual ebbing of violence and corruption in many places.

While things are looking up for the middle class on the world’s poorest continent, in the world’s richest country, the United States, things are moving in the opposite direction.

Here, as Pew Research puts it, “since 2000, the middle class has shrunk in size, fallen backward in income and wealth, and shed some...of its characteristic faith in the future.” By Pew’s definition—households earning between two-thirds and twice the national median income—the number of Americans in the middle class has dropped since 1971 from 61 percent to 51 percent.

Guess @Poitier was right about foreign investment helping the economy. And I guess I was right(again) about Ethiopia, Nigeria and Kenya's middle class booming.

 

[TMNT4000]

Nollywood may be the second largest film industry, but it needs A LOT of work especially in quality. There are some YouTube films that have better film quality than some most Nollywood films. I'm sorry but its the truth. If the diaspora wants to help with Africa then I think helping Nollywood would be very beneficial....

I know still cringe in some of the movies they make.

But damn if you make those type of low quality movies and still be in second place, just imagine when they get their shyt together.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

This is huge.

I'ma post this map in here. This is the Africa I want to see before I die.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

For that to happen it should start a plan to reduce the french stranglehold over her former colonies in WA and CA.

I read somewhere that African governments are now passing laws that say whites can no longer run shyt. You have any examples of them trying to kick western powers out?

 

[Bawon Samedi]

I know still cringe in some of the movies they make.

But damn if you make those type of low quality movies and still be in second place, just imagine when they get their shyt together.

Agreed.

Chris Tucker visited Nigeria multiple times. He should go back and help with the film industry there.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Is Congo working with Nigeria?

Now Nollywood has become the second largest film industry in the world.

#AfricanExcellence