Estarix
I think Africa's problems have been exacerbated in some ways by colonialists but it would always be always be at the lowest levels of HDI purely because off the low level intelligence of it's population. Whether that's cognitively inherent or a failure of the people to advance from traditional thinking and habits i can't say.
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Do you have a pdf version of the book "race against time" stephen lewis.
Race against time is about AIDS mostly, there is a bit about how the Fund and WB have exacerbated this epidemic, but mainly the book is about AIDS and the plight of its victims and orphans and the UN .
The other book "Looting Africa" by Patrick Bond is a better book about African economy. He quotes other major books on Africa's looting and his statistics is mind boggling. One can show as I said before few factories in Africa owned by foreign investors paying African workers peanuts for wages , but that doesn't amount to shit considering the suffering of the entire continent.
Larry Summer the Ex chief of the WB and later secretary of Treasury for Clinton and later president of Harvard university said it best how the WB and the banksters few Africa and Africans he said
" I think the economics logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that" ( the economist 8 February 1992). Also
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On December 12, 1991, while serving as chief economist for the World Bank, Summers authored a private memo arguing that the bank should actively encourage the dumping of toxic waste in developing countries, particularly “under populated countries in Africa,” which Summers described as “UNDER-polluted.” Summers added that public outrage over the heightened rates of prostate cancer caused by his proposed dumping would be mitigated by the fact that poor people in developing countries rarely live long enough to develop prostate cancer. " Huffington Post , may 25 , 211 "Lawrence Summers: Africa Is "
Now if that's the attitude of those who run these institution what should we expect? These people are deadly and logical and well "respected" by their own media which put a human face on these monsters, institutions like Harvard and Yale and other " top of the line" universities furnish these monsters with the façade of education and "knowledge" and "ethics" .
As they say the devil is in the details , and nothing better describe Africa then its statistics for the last half century, Africa 1980-2002 ratio of GDP to Debt is 23 to 66 or 61 billion to 206 billion. Africa retired " deposited/invested" in European banks $255 billion from 1980-1990 that's 4.2 times the original debt paying zero for that entire decade yet depositing that much wealth in Europe through investment or capital flight , of course its all stolen wealth.
By 2000 debt in 21 African countries was unbearable at more than 300% of export. In Sudan, Burundi, Sierra Leone, and Guniea-Bissau the debt is 15 times greater then the annual export. At least in 16 African countries the debt was inherited from dictators,
Nigeria under Buhari and Abacha = $30 billion
South Africa under aprathied $22 billions.
Sudan under Numeri $ 9 billions
Ethiopia under Mengisto $8.5 billions
Kenya under Moi $5.8 billions
Somali Repblic under Afweyne , $2.5 billions.
I will keep posting more statistics and how the IMF and WB run Africa basically.
