Watching the news on a weekly basis (I can't handle the BS every day) I see how Africans risk their lives trying to smuggle themselves in to Europe. It breaks my heart. Africa is one of the most fertile and beautiful continents on the planet. It's people on average are great, they are hospitable, funny, witty, hard working, entrepreneurial and most of all willing to learn and wanting to better their lot in life. So why is it that Africa on average is the poorest continent in the world? Some individuals like to blame colonization, or oppression by the Europeans.
It is true that there were many inhuman behaviors of Europeans against your average black person, but who are really the culprits? Lets analyse the past in order to understand the present.
"Several nations such as the Ashanti of present-day Ghana and the Yoruba of present-day Nigeria were involved in slave-trading. Groups such as the Imbangala of Angola and the Nyamwezi of Tanzania would serve as intermediaries or roving bands, waging war on African states to capture people for export as slaves. Historians John Thornton and Linda Heywood have provided an estimate that Africans captured and then sold to Europeans around 90% of those who were shipped in the Atlantic slave trade.[11] Henry Louis Gates, the Harvard Chair of African and African American Studies, has stated that "without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred."[11]
The entire Bubi ethnic group descents from escaped intertribal slaves owned by various ancient West-central African ethnic groups."-
Historians listed above explain the situation clearly. The African Slave trade would never have been possible with out the assistance of the African Black Elites!
So what has changed?
All sub-Saharan African countries with out exception have not progressed and have not moved into the 21st Century since the colonist left.
Lets take the five wealthiest countries in resources in Africa , north to South.
1- Nigeria- One of the most lucrative oil producing countries with ample natural resources, and perhaps the most entrepreneurial and smartest people in Africa has 60% of it's people living below the bread line.
2- The republic of Congo-Diamonds, Gold, Rubber, Fertile land, you name it they have it, ample water in my opinion one of the countries in Africa with the greatest potential. The people in Congo are hard working they love to study and well educated when they get the opportunity and yet 65% live below the bread line.
3-Angola- Diamonds, Gold, Oil,fertile land the wealthiest woman in the world Ms Dos Santos and yet 70% of its people are below the breadline .
4-Zimbabwe- Diamonds, Gold, Copper, fertile land, great people of which half live in South Africa. 80% of children in Zimbabwe are undernourished, while Robert and Grace Mugabe live the high life. Zimbabwe has one of the highest literacy in Africa, and it's people are forced to work in gardens and household cleaners in South Africa.
5-South Africa- No need to say much here about it's resources at one time South Africa mined 75% of the worlds gold, no shortage of diamonds, copper, Platinum you name it South Africa has it. They inherited one of the worlds best infrastructures from the White Nationalist government and now more than 40% of it's people are below the bread line and the number is rising. education is one of the worst in the world, one of the highest HIV Aids in the world, if not the highest and I can go on! While the President and his Elite are living the high life with expensive whiskey, expensive women and songs about killing the boers (Whites).
Coming back to my original question who is responsible for the poverty in Africa?
Nothing has changed! The same black elite who sold their people into slavery are selling their people into poverty while blatantly stealing Africa's resources and enriching themselves, while its poor people are drowning in the Mediterranean to go to the continent which these corrupt elites say has oppressed them and is responsible for the woes of Africa.
The solution for Africans is not to run to Europe but to obliterate these crooked and corrupt elites from their continent with the exception of Ian Kama of Botswana I believe all other African rulers should be imprisoned together with their families for the destruction and mayhem they have caused to this beautiful continent.
The Europeans should stop patronizing the Africans like they are little children who don't understand anything. They should stop giving money to these corrupt politicians for"aid" knowing full well that the money will not be used for the people of Africa, but for the pockets of these loathsome leaders and in turn enslave the citizens with World Bank debts.
Bringing Africa to Europe is not going to Help Africa or Europe. These childless cretinous and "guilt" ridden politicians of Europe must take care of their own people who are dying, dying not because of poverty but because of a feeling of worthlessness, childlessness and no hope for the future.
Politicians like Macron, Merkel ,May, Paolo Gentilon of Italy, Mark Rutte of Holland,Nicola Stergeon of Scotland, Jean Claude Junker, and Stefan Loven of Sweden have no horse in the race. When they die so will their childless legacy, they will only be remembered in the same vain as the African despots and bear the responsibility of destroying their respective continents.