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Greypatch wrote:btw nice fireside
thx but I think you mean Chulha
eurogirl wrote:That man is a blight !
Seriously , they think that the "white man" was oppressing them but look at them now.These ppl need a reality check it just went downhill after they "reclaimed" the white farmers land to give to black farmers . Steups .. this is such a sore topic for me eh , everyday I read articles about this country and wonder the hell is wrong with this man look at was he's doing to a country , the UN can only do so much , but the ppl as a nation have to do something .
http://voanews.com/english/2008-12-01-voa14.cfm
Wade charged that Zimbabwe's problems stemmed from its harsh colonial history. Though Mugabe's forced land redistribution is condemned by the West, the country he inherited in 1980 was shackled by a system in which a white elite controlled much of its land and wealth.
Senegal's transition from French rule was easier, Wade said, but bound him to Mugabe.
Across Africa, a desire to move beyond the colonial legacy often runs up against the usefulness of colonial history as a unifying force. It is a rare shared experience on a gigantic continent with thousands of languages and unique ethnic groups, where governments range from kingdoms to multiparty democracies to Islamic states. If nothing else, they can all trace their very borders to the decisions of European colonialists.
Ade Adefuye, the Africa head for the Commonwealth Secretariat that oversees the association of former British colonies, argued that revisiting colonial disputes can be counterproductive - overshadowing attempts to work on more immediate problems like cross-border banking fraud, trade barriers and governance while failing to actually make up for past injustices.
"You can't wish away the relics of colonization," said Adefuye, a Nigerian. "As an African, I see that it has had more negative impacts than positive impacts, but we should at least make use of the few positive impacts - like language and common political systems."
But a bitter history of exploitation is not easily shrugged off. Many African countries have tense relationships with their former colonizers that continue to affect trade deals and foreign policy.
evo-STI-k wrote:pioneer wrote:Greypatch wrote:how does the Mr. Manning sleep at night knowing almost his entire nation is starving and have almost zero basic amenities
fixed to apply loally
dats what we talking bout pioneer
Greypatch wrote:how does the Mr. Mugabe sleep at night knowing almost his entire nation is starving and have almost zero basic amenities
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