The notion that some races are superior to others soon turned around to haunt its Western proponents when German Nazis waged war on everyone except their own “master race” – everyone including Europeans of other kinds – whom Nazism considered subhuman and who must be subjugated at best and annihilated at worst. If Hitler was fought on account of his racial chauvinism, it followed that White supremacy could no longer be sustained as a basis to deny African-Americans their rights and to rule over people of other races.

Thus the end of the Second World War marked the start of the end of the racial justification for oppression and domination. Another justification for the domination of Africans was invented: yes, Africans are not biologically inferior to Whites, but African culture is inferior to Western culture.

Suddenly, African culture, rather than the African race, became the obstacle to the modernisation of the continent. It was therefore in the interest of Africans to be ruled by the Whites, for this rule provided the Blacks with the opportunity and the motivation to overcome their inferior traditional cultures and embrace superior western cultures. And even after independence, the Whiteman would carry on the burden of civilizing Africans through all possible ways.

One such way was – and continues to be – indoctrination through mass media propaganda. In The Passing of Traditional Society, Daniel Lerner convinced the West that the people of the Middle East, and by extension all ‘uncivilized’ peoples of the world whose traditional cultures hampered their modernisation, would be westernised and hence modernised through constant exposure to western media propaganda. To Lerner and indeed to the West, westernisation equals modernisation and development; any other culture equals backwardness and barbarism.

These backward and barbaric cultures would attain ‘social transformation’ through constant exposure to media propaganda, cosmetically coined as Development Communication. This approach has since supplemented military action and sanctions in spreading western culture and entrenching western hegemony. These and other methods of subjugation have now been joined by the programmes of western-based NGOs.

Very nice post! The minute you let someone else dictate, not advise, dictate for you what is morally right or wrong, you have already lost that battle coz they would never tolerate you telling them how to live their lives. I never knew the true meaning of backstabbing until I dealt with people from the western hemisphere. I think part of the reason they think Africans can reason at a 5 year olds level is because they cannot understand how Africans are so gullible and dont see the backstabbing, while they on the other hand are normally on their toes ready for it. What they miss is that for the most part, Africans are straight forward and wear their emotions on their sleeves, they on the other hand believe in concealing the cards that you hold. So im sure there's some NGO heads somewhere laughing about how it took Africans over 10 years to unveil this NGO scam.Its pretty inhumane to benefit off the poverty and misery of other people, how do you sleep at night knowing 80% of the NGO money goes to benefit your exorbitant lifestlye? If they were truly out to save the world, why cant they live like Mother Teresa? Why do they travel half way around the world when there are just as many poor, homeless and starving people in their home countries?

I don't buy into this "dog ate my homework" excuses to try and explain our misery. Bottom line is the mzungu has as much right to be selfish as we africans, they also have a right to act in their self interest including hoodwinking us to believe that they are trying to help us.

It is our responsibility as africans to act in our interests and do whatever it takes to succeed, if we can't then too bad.

Actually this kind of attitude is what facilitates Africa's rape! You should see the 'save the poor, starving and dying children' ads, its pathetic! I remember some show did a satire on the ads coz the " Ambassadors" for the poor children are always well fed and clothed. Africans need to realize that perception matters alot, the more we allow Africa to be portrayed as a basket case, the more we will stagnate. Ever wondered why those save the children "Ambassadors" never save American children? Believe me there are alot of needy American children too! Coz the US government would never allow their own citizens to be exploited, if 80% of your funding goes towards Administrative purposes, that NGO is there to help its staff not the starving people! If the mzungu has every right to hoodwink us, then how come we dont have a right to hoodwink them? If I took a shot of all the homeless and dying people on Skidrow, and sent out an SOS for them, how far do you think I would go? And what if, for every donation, I kept 80% of it, how soon before I am shut down?

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Let me be more clearer for you.

The Mzungu takes his own dollar, spends 0.8 and gives the african 0.2, why would you complain about that. Do you the beggar want to insist on getting the whole dollar!