Quote from: criptix on March 28, 2019, 08:51:39 AM

Quote from: af_newbie on March 27, 2019, 01:07:56 PM

Quote from: CryptopreneurBrainboss on February 07, 2019, 02:46:07 AM

I laugh at my continent when foreigners call us poor. You make a statement online about the continent or any country in it and the first thing that comes to people mind is "That poor country or poor continent". Who is to be blamed for all these, it isn't just the leaders anymore but the people are to be held responsible because they voted those leaders into power.

The image below shows you how wealthy Africa is and if she wasn't being raped she would had been the richest continent on earth.

What my continent have failed to realized is that power won't be given to you unless you fight for it. If the world was a fair one most African countries would had been among world leading country but instead we get treated like slaves and our wealth is been enjoy by other continents. What a shame Angry

From the marvel movie "Blackpanther" i believe the solution to the continent (Africa) problem is to act as the past Kings of wakanda did with their natural resource: Vibranium, they should learn to manage their resources themselves and later they can sell finish products to the outside world.

Africa is not poor. Africans are.

To develop and manufacture new products you need scientists, engineers, IT guys, business managers.

What the "Blackpanther" movie portrayed was pure utopia.

What Africans can hope for is to go the Chinese route (attract foreign investment), but one crucial ingredient is missing: education. Chinese communist education system is among the top education systems in the world. Africans don't have a world-class education system, that is why they will never be able to compete on the world stage unless they tackle that issue first.

You really think communist china is spending billions of $ in the 3rd world out of good will and welfare?

No wonder the west is short before its downfall...

I guess time to immigrate east and accept the loss.

China benefited from the greed of Western corporations. It was a mistake by Western governments to allow this shift of Western capital and infrastructure to China. Militarily, a really stupid mistake.

Now we see the aftermath. China is flexing its financial muscle all over the world, buying up resources, real-estate all around the world, from Africa to South and North America.

They don't give a flying puck about the long-term welfare of the subservient countries, whether it is Ecuador, Ghana or Canada.

They are investing heavily in the industrial sector in Africa. Just like the West was investing in China since the late 1980s.

Do I think China cares about the welfare of Africans? Probably they do care a bit. Just like the slave masters 200 years ago did care about their slaves so that they do not die in large numbers.

Africans are the resource.