enyands wrote:sparkly wrote:enyands wrote:sparkly wrote:Othelo wrote:sparkly wrote:[quote=Ericsson]Add on top of that WTO in Nairobi have hit a deadlock on a number of issues favouring developing countries like us.
China gave us the sh.10.5bn loan so that we don't raise any issue about unfair practices to nations like us.
What do you expect when wolves are negotiating with lambs.
Africans have to take by force what belongs to Africans. Stop extending begging bowls to our first/second world cousins
I have always wondered why Africa cannot organise themselves and create some serious trading block and development fund!!!
Exactly!
Trade between Africa and the west is heavily tilted in favour of the west. The west buys raw materials (never finished goods) then sells back finished goods.
African products are faced with Tariff and Non tariff barriers in the west.
Intra African trade on mutually beneficial terms can fast track development. e.g. South Sudan to sell oil to Kenya, Kenyan banks to provide development capital in SS.
This is practical written wise ,but on the ground just to let you know the west Will never allow this to happen.kwani where do you think they will sell their finished product if you depend on each other.should someone try that sinister move they will slap you with bans and trade embargos. Ask Gaddafi.he tried to make sure that Africa depends on herself ...they got rid of him very fast. We need people like Tom Sankara and the pan African leaders .
It's very possible and its happening. Uganda is now No. 1 destination of Kenyan exports.
If you buy maize from your neighbor and go to posho mill and grind it and sell it kwa soko, unga as a company won't pay attention to you .but if start doing it in large scale like buying a million bags processing and bagging it then you will have ungas attention .
Back to my point trading with Uganda is a small fish in a big ocean. But should you start importing oil from Sudan selling maize to them ,buying weapons from South Africa and not west ,then slowly they will pay some vigilante some money and there will be crisis like resources rich countries congo, south sudan,ivory coast ,Nigeria ,Angola,whose funding all this of course it's well documented and known ,it's the west.
So to answer you question we are safe for now. Because we r dealing with unga kidogo .should we cross that threshold then kenya will be new kid in the block after Akina congo .
Have you ever wondered why any country in Africa that has large deposit of minerals has no peace whatsoever.there will only be peace if and only if the west have legally acquired those shares with crocodile grip and unhooking then leads to massive sanctions and international lawsuits. Buhari the new Nigerian president thought it's easy to unhook the BP and shell companies from the second world producer of oil but he gave up and is dancing to their tune.
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@enyands nice write-up. That's why I said "Africans have to take by force what belongs to Africans".It will not be easy but it can be done with concerted effort and the will to do what it takes to succeed.
Let us however not make excuses for mediocrity by blaming the West for Africa's under development. The reasons why Africa lags in development are mostly self inflicted and have been discussed exhaustively on another Wazua thread.
Just 50-60 years ago, Europe and Japan had been bombed back into the stone age. Saudi Arabia, S. Korea and Singapore were 3rd world countries...
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