Who benefits from portraying more than a billion people as
poverty stricken and an entire continent as nothing more than wastelands for
numerous crises? United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and
the European Union (EU) want to utilize Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
to spread the message of poverty and crisis on the continent whereas
facilitating the exploits of western companies. How can Africa be simultaneously
poor with business profit margins that are off the chain? European oil
corporations like Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, and British Petroleum which
are ranked as the riches worldwide corporations have been exploiting Africa
for centuries.
The poverty and crisis propaganda about Africa serves the
incestuous and imperial relationship between European and African elites. For
example, France is able to preach about liberté and égalité while supporting
dictators like Mr. Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso and Mr. Paul Biya of Cameroun.
Europeans and Washington speak of freedom and democracy while supplying rulers
in Ethiopia, Ugandan, and Djibouti with weapons to derail the interest of their
masses. Switzerland is notorious for acting as co-conspirators of these
multi-millionaire gangsters that steal from African nations and deposit
billions in European financial banking institutions like the original European
imperialist.
However, Europeans are not the only ones talking out of both
sides of their mouths that think the rest of us are stupid and/or blind.
African rulers and their cohorts are major agents in this global conspiracy.
For example, it is alleged by some publications that the Democratic Republic of
Congo which is now the second biggest African country, is also the poorest in
the world. But Congo is one of the largest producers of coltan which is in many
electronic devices including cellphones. The African rulers in Congo, Rwanda,
Uganda, Burundi, and South Africa have generated billions from the Congo basin
through dubious refining and extracting activities. Congolese women have
become synonymous as the collateral damage of the various schemes to steal
resources.
Liberia which is also listed as one of the poorest countries
in the world has some thriving mining and forestry industries. The former and
present rulers of Liberia are mostly millionaires and Mr. Charles Taylor gave
out diamonds to his lovers. Liberia is so poor that Firestone Tire and Rubber
Company has generated billions by extracting rubber from Liberian plantations.
But the saga continues because Africa remains under assault
from within and without.
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