interesting opinion..
"January 1st, 2011 11:12 am ET
What black Africans need to do is to create investment-friendly societies. Places where business can make money. That is all China has done. Western governments cannot force business to put money in countries they do not wish to go to. Western, largely American capital and technology has made China rich in 20years. American businessmen have done this notwithstanding China’s open ambition to eclipse the US’ military power. Money is not racist. In the last 25years, hundreds of millions of people in Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia, South Korea, Singapore, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Chile and many others have made tremendous economic progress as a result of development assistance. China and India have re-defined themselves as new economic powerhouses. China has become rich supplying the world with a large, docile workforce. Workers earning just the very “dollar a day” used as a yardstick of poverty.
The people who run most black African countries do not need a prosperous National economy for their own prosperity. They are neither business people nor salaried employees (in the real sense) of anybody. They are not mortgage-paying types or shareholding types to who the finer indices of the economy are of great concern. They are simple thieves who cream off large chunks of the national budget every year and share what they will with whom they choose. Sadly, they are cheered on by almost everybody. Those who disagree are too few to make a difference. Of those who appear to disagree, most of these too merely seek an opportunity to steal. They want public office. And they want it now ! Since the well-documented robbery of the past is lionised, there is naturally, a great, irresistible incentive for others to follow.
Most black Africans are immersed in bucolic ignorance. The world is more familiar with those South Africans who believe that forced intercourse with babies will somehow cure HIV. But this is even less horrific belief than ritual murder. He has given the first official confirmation of this horror of horrors that black African societies try to sweep under the carpet. The consumption of human blood etc breeds so much insecurity and is bad for business. Manufacturing plants can not work three shifts if people are terrified of walking the streets.
Sadly, this is exactly how the nefarious characters who muscle their way into political office want things to remain. An eerie darkness engulfs he city of Lagos at night. It is the largest concentration of black people in the world. It has precious few working street lights. Like almost everywhere in black Africa, it is the kidnapper and occult-murderers’ delight. In such environments superstition and heinous crimes hold dangerous sway. This, is not good for business.
Where chaos and ritual murder reign, all evil appetites range unchecked and backwardness is king.
work to prosper