Fear of Pan - Africanism: Propagana War Aginst United Africa
May 20, 2018 20:59:50 GMT -5
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Post by zarahan on May 20, 2018 20:59:50 GMT -5
I hope you are right and the air transport thing shows that
there are different levels where cross-country cooperation could
work- reducing tarrifs, improving comm links, air transport
standardization and so on. As the article notes, implementation
on the ground is the key, versus talk and paper agreement.
That Chinese thing still bugs me though. They probably had to make
some kind of deal giving away African resources for China to jump in.
The thing is, African countries have been doing full-dress Heads of State
conferences and meetings, and summits on the continent since the 1960s.
There are numerous 5-star conference centers, hotels, modern government
office buildings etc in place. Yet they are gonna run out and blow 10-20
million on this building when about one-third of Ethiopia's population is mired
in poverty. In Ethiopia has been renewed growth and slow improvements in the last
decade but still there were a lot more urgent things to spend that money on-
well, roads, good breeding stock animals, irrigating farmland, health etc etc.
BUt again, you can see where most of the money is going- into the hands of
the bureaucracies and those at the top.
Says one World Bank report:
"This progress is not without its challenges, however, and poverty remains widespread in Ethiopia. The poorest households have become poorer than they were in 2005; high food prices that improve incomes for many poor farmers make buying food more challenging for the poorest. Despite improvements, Ethiopia still has relatively low rates of educational enrollment, access to sanitation, and attended births, and challenges remain around investment in the health, safety and education of women and girls."
^^Yeah- sure, but we gon blow 10 million on an office building when there are plenty
of conferencing facilities available for the talking shops, summits and gabfests.
Ethiopia ranks second poorest country in the world - Oxford University Study
nazret.com/blog/index.php/2014/06/16/ethiopia-ranks-second-poorest-country
One book I read- I think it was "CHina's Second COntinent" says that Ethiopia
has been shifting farmland to foreigners- hundreds of thousands of acres of
fertile land to companies or people out of India/elsewhere- quiet deals by the elites.
Yet they can't find the money to provide clean drinking water in substantial
quantities to thousands of poor villages. I read that years ago Bil Gates was
at a conference in AFRICA and there was a lot of big talk about building exciting
Internet infrastructure, and Gates pointed out that all the talk was nice but
millions of people meanwhile did not have clean drinking water.
To his credit, Gates has been trying to do some grassroots things. Below he drinks
water recycled/reclaimed from feces using a low cost processor and this is making
a test run in Dakar, Senegal. In the article below, it says the city's residents can't
afford trucks to haul human waste- so they have to remove the toxic stuff by hand.
Bill Gates’ Poop Water Machine Now Working in Africa with Promising Results
nextshark.com/bill-gates-poop-water-machine-senegal/
^^Now why cant they afford the trucks, yet the gubment got money to be spending
millions on "showcase" projects like sports stadiums, theaters and such? This
is the kind of bullshiit going on. In the Youtube video below. The gubment got enough
money to be building nice theatres, for nice performances, but they cant pony
up enough cash to get some trucks to move the crap out of the capital city? Really?
We gotta get Bill Gates to fund or fly in with some gizmo to do so?
^^We ain't got money for basic sanitation for the masses, but we sure got money
for a "Grand National Theater".. Once again the elites are doing well..
And that's a problem with SOME pan African spiels. Plenty of talk at the
elite, academia, or media levels, but very little helping the masses
on the ground. I hope the guy above who talks about a grassroots movement
can get enough people to seriously challenge what is now going on.
there are different levels where cross-country cooperation could
work- reducing tarrifs, improving comm links, air transport
standardization and so on. As the article notes, implementation
on the ground is the key, versus talk and paper agreement.
That Chinese thing still bugs me though. They probably had to make
some kind of deal giving away African resources for China to jump in.
The thing is, African countries have been doing full-dress Heads of State
conferences and meetings, and summits on the continent since the 1960s.
There are numerous 5-star conference centers, hotels, modern government
office buildings etc in place. Yet they are gonna run out and blow 10-20
million on this building when about one-third of Ethiopia's population is mired
in poverty. In Ethiopia has been renewed growth and slow improvements in the last
decade but still there were a lot more urgent things to spend that money on-
well, roads, good breeding stock animals, irrigating farmland, health etc etc.
BUt again, you can see where most of the money is going- into the hands of
the bureaucracies and those at the top.
Says one World Bank report:
"This progress is not without its challenges, however, and poverty remains widespread in Ethiopia. The poorest households have become poorer than they were in 2005; high food prices that improve incomes for many poor farmers make buying food more challenging for the poorest. Despite improvements, Ethiopia still has relatively low rates of educational enrollment, access to sanitation, and attended births, and challenges remain around investment in the health, safety and education of women and girls."
^^Yeah- sure, but we gon blow 10 million on an office building when there are plenty
of conferencing facilities available for the talking shops, summits and gabfests.
Ethiopia ranks second poorest country in the world - Oxford University Study
nazret.com/blog/index.php/2014/06/16/ethiopia-ranks-second-poorest-country
One book I read- I think it was "CHina's Second COntinent" says that Ethiopia
has been shifting farmland to foreigners- hundreds of thousands of acres of
fertile land to companies or people out of India/elsewhere- quiet deals by the elites.
Yet they can't find the money to provide clean drinking water in substantial
quantities to thousands of poor villages. I read that years ago Bil Gates was
at a conference in AFRICA and there was a lot of big talk about building exciting
Internet infrastructure, and Gates pointed out that all the talk was nice but
millions of people meanwhile did not have clean drinking water.
To his credit, Gates has been trying to do some grassroots things. Below he drinks
water recycled/reclaimed from feces using a low cost processor and this is making
a test run in Dakar, Senegal. In the article below, it says the city's residents can't
afford trucks to haul human waste- so they have to remove the toxic stuff by hand.
Bill Gates’ Poop Water Machine Now Working in Africa with Promising Results
nextshark.com/bill-gates-poop-water-machine-senegal/
^^Now why cant they afford the trucks, yet the gubment got money to be spending
millions on "showcase" projects like sports stadiums, theaters and such? This
is the kind of bullshiit going on. In the Youtube video below. The gubment got enough
money to be building nice theatres, for nice performances, but they cant pony
up enough cash to get some trucks to move the crap out of the capital city? Really?
We gotta get Bill Gates to fund or fly in with some gizmo to do so?
^^We ain't got money for basic sanitation for the masses, but we sure got money
for a "Grand National Theater".. Once again the elites are doing well..
And that's a problem with SOME pan African spiels. Plenty of talk at the
elite, academia, or media levels, but very little helping the masses
on the ground. I hope the guy above who talks about a grassroots movement
can get enough people to seriously challenge what is now going on.