Topic: Why is Africa stuck in the stone age? - page 9. (Read 11314 times)

Well, They're waiting the USA to bring them some "Democracy"...

If you were to visit africa one day then you would see how wrong you are.

The biggest problem in africa is corruption and thieves. The people put in power always end up stealing money meant for development purposes like building roads, water services etc.

Man.  Now that we've had the prep session.

Let's do some real stupid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2U7S3Aq51II

A study and critic of countries after countries of the African continent makes perfect sense in this thread. But Africaaaaa!?!

Quite strangely, it would appear there is ignorance of North Africa vs. Sub Saharan Africa.

Guys, we are talking about a CONTINENT here.   Not a country.

Socialism, greed and the shaman tradition.

Socialism - most of the countries in Africa with small exceptions are socialist countries. Meaning that their ideology is in a total clash with modern world. It's obsolete, corrupt and covered in mold. Although they claim to have free market it's based on "who has what" policy, not on the "who did what", or "who spent how much to make that much". It's basically a right of the born rich to get richer and it's forbidden for the poor to elevate in the social staircase. And no, thats not capitalism. That's neo-socialism.

Greed - no need to write much about it, but there are billionaires in Africa, who are billionaires because they steal from their own countries. Mostly government officials - also product of the Socialism.

Shanam tradition - IDK if that's a correct term for it, but even to this day, people in Africa listen first to the shaman of their tribe, and last to anything else - officials, family members, etc. So there are tribe chiefs and shamans, who own vast amounts of money (hundreds of millions of dollars) and several fiancees, multiple golden cars etc, while their tribesmen starve (literally). They claim to have right over people's lives and lands, have armies of kids with AKs who are stoned on meth and are ready to kill at command.

That's why. And it's a vicious cycle. A magic circle that cannot be broken.

Oh, that's why I have driven past so many mining operations, refineries, and wineries in Africa.  Got it!

Others have already said it, but I'd put the first part of that question as: I have my boot on your neck pinning you to the floor, but why can't you get up? For the second part of the question, how to correct it: people all over still get a lot of cheap stuff thanks to resources "taken" from Africa. One way to help would be if the population there actually got something out of the deal.

During the recent ebola outbreak some blacks attacked a hospital and stole blankets. The blankets used to cover the sick...
There was also a case of a group of sick people that run away from the hospital, because they saw people dying there or whatever. So yeah they prefered spread the desease around and die somewhere in the jungle...

2000 years ago black people were living in their houses made of straw and hunting with spears. In the following years even the isolated countries like Japan built castles, made steel, clothes, paper, art and improved medicine. Now we have space ships, electricity, internet, lasers and hadron colliders   while they are sitting half naked in their huts and hunting with blowguns.

This pretty much sums it up, Europeans have been raping that continent for centuries.

When I read that I was like WTF? What kind of basic, basic education people get? 

Obviously you've never flown over the African continent...

Check it out on Google Earth just for fun.

Too bad (or maybe an obvious good thing for some here) none of us on this thread will have a real genuine African perspective for a minimum counter argument.

At least we have real genuine muslims counter arguing and pushing back on my thread 

"Mass sterilization": Kenyan Doctors Find Anti-fertility Agent in UN Tetanus Vaccine

https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/168238-2014-12-17-mass-sterilization-kenyan-doctors-find-anti-fertility-agent-in-un.htm

http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/mass-sterilization-kenyan-doctors-find-anti-fertility-agent-in-un-tetanus-vaccine/

So Africa is a big zoo in need for caring, readjustment, nudging and population control then?

There are not manufacturers in Africa, as well as energy supply for manufacturers, so there are only nature, and wild animals. And in living areas you can find some local markets. That's all and nothing more.  

All because the majority of the black, African people were/are not as intellectually capable as the Western Europeans. In fact, the African emotional IQ, which may be higher, worked against black Africans. http://www.amren.com/

Was Tarzan really a good guy?

Again. Africa is a continent. A continent that was divided by the powers from the Old Europe. Of course people were already fighting before the Europeans came, like anywhere else.
The same way you say "Africa", the Old Europe saw "black people", not 100s of specific ethnic groups with different cultures and territories. Rwanda is a perfect example of what happened when you do a social experiment on such scale.

Belgium became a very very rich country thanks to... Africa


Congo Free State (1885–1908)[edit]
Main article: Congo Free State





Colonial rule in the Congo began in the late 19th century. King Leopold II of Belgium, frustrated by his nation's lack of international power and prestige, tried to persuade the government to support colonial expansion around the then-largely unexplored Congo Basin. Their ambivalence resulted in Leopold's creating a colony on his own account. With support from a number of Western countries, who viewed Leopold as a useful buffer between rival colonial powers on the Continent, Leopold achieved international recognition for a personal colony, the Congo Free State, in 1885.[2]

The Free State government exploited the Congo for its natural resources, first ivory and later rubber which was becoming a valuable commodity. With the support of the colonial military, the Force Publique, the territory was divided into private concessions. The Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company (ABIR), among others, used force and brutality to extract profit from the territory. The regime in the Congo was responsible for using forced labour, murder and mutilation to force indigenous Congolese who did not fulfill quotas for rubber collections. It is estimated that millions of Congolese died during this time.[3] Many of the deaths can be attributed to new diseases introduced by contact with European colonists, including smallpox which killed nearly half the population in the areas surrounding the lower Congo River.[4]

A sharp reduction of the population of the Congo through excess deaths is widely considered to have occurred during the Free State period but estimates of the deaths toll vary considerably. Although figures are estimates, it is believed that as many as ten million Congolese died during the period,[5][6][7][8] accounting for a fifth of the population. As the first census did not take place until 1924, it is difficult to quantify the population loss of the period and these figures have been disputed by some who, like William Rubinstein, claim that the figures cited by Adam Hochschild are speculative estimates based on little evidence.[9]

Although the Congo Free State was not officially a Belgian colony, Belgium was its chief beneficiary in terms of its trade and the employment of its citizens. Leopold II personally accumulating considerable wealth from the rubber and ivory exports of the colony acquired at gunpoint. Much of this was spent in numerous programmes of public building in Brussels, Ostend and Antwerp.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_colonial_empire





So if you are looking for stones beside the stone age of Africa, look for them in buildings around in Brussels...

Most of the countries are run by dictators.

When your government allows you almost zero freedom, you will not produce.

The country that has improved the most since their dictatorship fell is Somalia. While not a powerhouse compared to 1st world countries, it is a vast improvement from its dictatorship days.