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Originally Posted by Grapesoda
(Post 20161029)
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YOU ARE A REAL PIECE OF HUMAN SHIT AREN'T YOU?????
How many women do you have tied up in your basement up you old racist fuck. That always your default to point at Africa. But lets talk about why Africa so fucked up. Does it have to do with the 100s of years slavery and exploitation by Merica and Europe or the Dictators Merica has supported over the last decades.
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Beginning in the late 19th century Europe dominated, divided and exploited Africa by force of arms and colonial rule. Europeans drew the map of Africa to divide and conquer it. Now with economic globalization, Africa is in play again for its natural wealth by all of the developed countries of the world. The competition is fiercer than ever.
Many of the protagonists of 1914 are the same ones today. Many of them never really left Africa. After African colonies won independence in the mid-20th century, for many of them it was just a token independence. They got a seat at the United Nations. But old colonialists simply paid off corrupt African leaders and continued to rape the continent. Few Africans benefited except the elites. For others it just brought more of the same: The Resource Curse and exploitation.
Now 100 years after World War 1, add the global dynamos of the United States, China, Japan, Russia, India, Turkey, Israel, South Korea and Brazil among the fierce competitors for Africa?s riches. All of these countries use state supported corporations, transnational corporations, world organizations, foreign aid, loans, diplomacy and military intervention to further their national agendas.
Africa exports exotic fruits, vegetables and flowers to Europe and the Middle East,
yet now has to import much of its staple food supplies from the West.
The African continent is extremely rich in scarce resources. It is rich in oil, uranium, copper, gold, platinum, tin, diamonds, timber, export-based agriculture, bio-fuels, biodiversity, land and people. As an example, a single old-growth tree from the rain forests of Africa can be worth more than $20,000 on the world market.
Africa is also rich in strategic minerals such as coltan which is essential for modern electronics such as cell phones and computers. Coltan is a hard metal that is an excellent conductor of electricity. Child and slave labor are used in places such as the (un)Democratic Republic of the Congo to mine the metal. Modern technology and the demand for coltan have resulted in armed conflict, corruption, pollution and grief for many people in Africa.
Africa is one of the few places in the world that is a source for vanadium. Vanadium gives steel more strength and flexibility. Vanadium is used in automobiles, airplanes, electronics, medical equipment, pipelines, military weapons and high-speed tools. Its importance cannot be overemphasized. Vanadium is also highly toxic and its mining causes deadly pollution.
Many children in Africa live in extreme poverty, slavery and as child soldiers.
Yet with all the richness of the African continent, most of its people live in abject poverty. Their governments do not provide them with even the most essential of services such as clean drinking water, medical care, and the availability of electricity, education and basic infrastructure. How does one explain all the poverty among all the wealth? The simple explanation is local corruption and foreign exploitation.
Global corporations and foreign nations cut deals with corrupt leaders for billions of US dollars and then turn their head while despots raid the people?s treasury. There are violence and wars in Africa between the ruthless elites fighting over the loot.
Armed gangs roam the country-side stealing the wealth and extorting protection money from foreign corporations. Private companies hire mercenaries to guard their properties and shoot trespassers on sight. Often the killed trespassers are just children trying to eke out a few dollars? worth of minerals.
Even though Africa is an important source of natural resources the US government had ignored much of Africa for a long time as not being of strategic importance. As a result China and other powers have a big head-start over the US in Africa.
