Despite having ‘everything necessary to become a powerful, modern, industrialised continent’, in the words of former Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, the African continent has been plagued by Western intervention in the form of coups, structural adjustment programmes, and more. While African leaders such as Nkrumah have sought to establish new development frameworks based on the organisation of an autonomous united Africa, these Western-imposed agendas have severely hindered the continent’s aspirations for development and dignity. Today, with the rise of China’s Belt and Road Initiative following its own rapid development independent of Western institutions, China represents an important source of financing for alternative development projects.
Right, and why are they lacking political stability?
Because we destabilise them so they do not develop to powerful societies, that won’t do cheap labour for us anymore.
Pretty much what France is doing with the old colonies
I think it’s mostly natural resources, there is still a huge amount of natural resources in Africa exploited by western companies.
In the mind of the coloniser, cheap labour is a natural resource, and both must be exploited fully
Mostly true. They tend to destabilize themselves so fewer of them can make more money off of their labor.
I blame those evil hippoes. We think they just eat and chase people. They’ve been up to much worse for a very long time.
Asking the real questions