Environmental, economic, and social differences, are power relations.

And power is about identity. In late eighteenth century, the idea of 'European' superiority came into being.

And now when we look at others as superior then we acknowledge inferiority. And the results will always leave us inferior.

The problem is that we have been brainwashed to believe that Africa is a hell hole plagued by all manner of problems and that the rest of the world is a paradise. You just need to read abit of history (and current affairs) to realise that worse conditions have occurred elsewhere. Even in Europe the situation was much worse not so long ago. You can read about feudal europe, the black death, cholera in europe, irish famine, slums in europe, world wars (70m were killed in WW2 just 70yrs ago!), bosnia, Kosovo, syria, beirut, afghanistan, Korea, Niajin massacre carried out by the japanese on the chinese,israel/palestine, india/pakistan, annihilation of the indigenous peoples of the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, latin america etc etc.

'There'? I'd rather we lived here and now. Then, we'll live creatively and we'll be in touch with our needs.

Hapana. What do you mean?

I think we shall always be tribes. The problem is when you are poor and that’s why people start associating their poverty with tribes. This was evident in 2007 when places like Kibra were burning, others were quite @ home in the posh neighborhoods they did not take arms against each other. Ever noticed among the monied , they refer each other using the English names , Antony , Richard, Ruth while among the less moneyed its usually Kamau , Onyango , Kipruto ,Mueni .
No need to talk about western influence depends on what you copy. our grandfathers who started copying we know how far they went .They went to school like the westerners and most of us are where we are because of copying western culture otherwise we could still hunting and gathering fruits like the pygmies in Congo. But if we start adopting bestiality and homosexuality, then we are doomed.
Religion we tend to really take this to extreme no one sees any problem feeding a rich pastor and building them houses while we do not have our own or buying them posh cars while we are taking matatus to work or even trekking.

Politics, like religion is also taken to the extreme, not that it’s bad to talk politics but I guess people should know the limits and when to get to work
Culture /traditions like western influence, I think we should know what to continue practicing and what to stop. Talk of stuff like female g mutilation or practicing witchcraft. At least we are a bit better we do not have the voodoos.

if we educate the masses and kill corruption and work extra harder to detail, most of all these problems will go away.

Africa is you. It's always about you. How you live, and love. How you find and share knowledge, and use it.