What do you think about this? True or bullshit? Sounds like the truth? I don't know. I hear the amount of weapons get to africa are from russian sources and are russian-built, and other sources. Maybe less u.s.-built.
HOW DOES THE USA BLOCK AFRICA’S SUCCESS?
1. By blocking trade
It’s very hard for most African countries to export goods to America or other Western nations. While at the same time, Western countries buy Africa’s raw materials at a very cheap price and sell them back as finished goods at very high prices. As you can see this kind of trade is very unfair for small African nations. And since they badly need foreign exchange and have nowhere else to go, they have no choice but to sell their raw materials at very low prices. And also Western countries will trade with Western countries and their allies first before even thinking of trading with any African country. Plus since they have been buying raw materials from Africa at very cheap prices, they have a lot of raw materials stored in large quantities and thus they can control the price.
Most of the rich countries have now free trade agreements with one another and thus making it harder for poor nations to compete with them.
Countries like USA heavily subsidize its local produce and thus making it even harder for African countries to export goods there.
The USA and other Western nations have a lot of trade conditions that make it harder for poorer nations to export there while making it easier for them to buy goods
In Africa at very cheap prices whenever they want.
2. No knowledge share
The USA and most of its allies have been independent far much longer than most African countries. So the problems that Africa is going through, they might have encountered and now have solutions to. But they do not want to share technology
and ideas with the African countries. All the latest technology and skills they are closely guarded. Africa is left to rely on outdated technology and methods of doing things. The USA also ensures that the latest technology does not reach Africa, especially those that lead to large production of goods, Military equipments, economical reforms, self reliance and establishment of better advanced goods, machinery and transport system. The little advancement that Africa has is from the African students who have studied abroad and brought the knowledge back or those Africans who lived, worked or traveled abroad. But most of these Africans still don’t have access to the highly industrialized methods of the Western world, which the keep to themselves under lock and key. The USA has enough know-how and highly skilled brain power to turn the African economy into one of the most successful in the world but they choose not to and make Africans and the rest of the world believe that Africa’s problems has nothing to do with them and more to do with Africans themselves.
3. Privatization
African countries are pressured to fully privatize their industries as soon as possible while it has taken some Western countries hundreds of years to fully privatize its industries. Even Australia and UK, which have been independent for centuries, still have government owned companies. So why does the USA want small democratic African countries to privatize their national companies while it took them centuries to fully privatize its companies and it still hasn’t fully done that?
The reason is because it wants newly independent African countries most of them less than fifty years old to privatize their companies so that the USA and its Western allies can buy them at cheap prices and run them down so that African countries still remain poor. This also denies the local African people to be rich and powerful and start questioning the USA’s authority in this world.
With the companies in Western hands, most African countries are kept silent and are controlled by the USA Their policies, their budget and even their political system is determined by the USA. “He who feeds you tells you what to do”. And if African countries refuse to privatize, aid is taken away from them. So they are not even advised to privatize, their forced to privatize.
Privatization also causes job losses because the new owners don’t care about the local people. They just care about profit. With job losses, people start complaining, the government at the same time is thinking how to pay back loans and with not enough goods being exported, they government is short of income and decides to print new notes, thus inflation and this goes on for a long time in some cases to hyper inflation.
That’s how you have US$1 equals 5000 or 50000 African local’ currency.
Thus the people struggle to make ends meet and blame is put on the government because people cannot see the underlining cause.
4. Civil Wars
The USA also uses civil wars to block Africa’s success. Most civil wars occur in the richest parts of Africa, for example: Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, and Sierra Leone etc. These countries are rich in natural resources and in normal circumstances
They should be one of the richest countries on earth. But instead of developing their country, the people have been fighting each other. There is no country in Africa that manufactures guns at large scale, if any at all. So where do these weapons come from. Answer: C.I.A. The USA encourages two sides of a group of people in a country to fight. It provides them weapons through the C.I.A in exchange for their natural resources. Though the main reason is to hinder the countries development.
How do all these weapons reach Africa when the USA and its allies monitor the seas? At small scale they can be smuggled but large quantities of weapons are taken to Africa. These are the same weapons that the local people use to kill each other. And as long as they are killing each other and not attacking America, America doesn’t care. There can never be a war without funds and America funds these civil wars to hinder the progress of African nations. And when the people are tired of killing each other, USA formulates the peace treaties and draws a road map to “development”, so that no other country rains on its parade. America still remains in charge and keeps an eye on to ensure that the country does not stabilize and become powerful.
It encourages the country to take up policies that seem good but later on hinder development. It keeps the country happy by giving it just a bit of aid to survive.
It claims to be a friend but it’s not at all. All it’s doing is keeping a watchful eye of a potential challenger. (Keep your friends close and your enemies closer). And that is why America has an embassy in almost every country in the world. It wants to monitor these countries’ activities.
Though some of the coups in Africa have been caused by stupid and greedy generals, America still has had a hand in a lot of them. For instance, America through C.I.A
Mobuto Sese Seko takeover of Congo, which he later named Zaire. Without the American’ backing, he would never have had the guts to do it.
Coups hinder Africa’s development and America has encouraged coups for years. Whenever America is threatened by a country’s president, it will decide to replace him with an alternative president of its liking, who will be a puppet.
This has happened even outside Africa. For example in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There, the presidents are America’s puppets. They buck when America says so, they jump when America says so. Where’s the democracy. I thought presidents were supposed to listen to their people and cater for their people’s needs and not to foreign nations and foreign presidents. America does what suits it, and not what is democratic.
Democracy only exists when it suits America. And America can do no wrong. After all it’s “the greatest country on earth”. It’s bad for Iraq to invade Kuwait but it’s okay for America to invade Iraq. How ironic.
5. Bad Publicity
Nothing good about Africa is said on Western news. And most of the major news outlets and T.V networks are owned by America and its allies. America has encouraged people to view Africa as a poor continent, where all sorts of crime and lawlessness prevails. This then hinders tourists to go to Africa, denying Africa of the much needed income. It also makes African people to have a low self esteem about their countries and themselves. The West is advertised as “heaven” and Africa as “hell”. Due to this the people embark on going overseas to study and most don’t even go back to Africa to develop it because the media has made it look like a bad place to live. African countries are heavily bombarded with Hollywood movies and Western lifestyles so that the can ditch their lifestyle and move to the West to become like their fictional movie heroes. This appeals very well to younger people and hence a lot of the young, creative brains are taken away from Africa to the West and help develop the West even more while Africa lingers in poverty.
America also makes a lot of goods: T-shirts, bags, caps etc. with USA, I love New York, L.A etc printed on them and sent to Africa. Making Africans wanting to learn more about USA and going there. Even food donated to poor nations has USA written on the bags. This is just to entice young Africans to think of America as a great nation and the best place to live on Earth.
The whole media is full of USA this, USA that. All this is so that our minds think of no other country but the USA It’s a great marketing strategy by the USA.
This USA propaganda doesn’t just have an impact on Africa but also other countries. The difference is with other countries especially its allies, it helps to develop but with Africa, it hinders development.
http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Africa/00000012.htm
http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Africa/00000010.htm
HOW DOES THE USA BLOCK AFRICA’S SUCCESS?
1. By blocking trade
It’s very hard for most African countries to export goods to America or other Western nations. While at the same time, Western countries buy Africa’s raw materials at a very cheap price and sell them back as finished goods at very high prices. As you can see this kind of trade is very unfair for small African nations. And since they badly need foreign exchange and have nowhere else to go, they have no choice but to sell their raw materials at very low prices. And also Western countries will trade with Western countries and their allies first before even thinking of trading with any African country. Plus since they have been buying raw materials from Africa at very cheap prices, they have a lot of raw materials stored in large quantities and thus they can control the price.
Most of the rich countries have now free trade agreements with one another and thus making it harder for poor nations to compete with them.
Countries like USA heavily subsidize its local produce and thus making it even harder for African countries to export goods there.
The USA and other Western nations have a lot of trade conditions that make it harder for poorer nations to export there while making it easier for them to buy goods
In Africa at very cheap prices whenever they want.
2. No knowledge share
The USA and most of its allies have been independent far much longer than most African countries. So the problems that Africa is going through, they might have encountered and now have solutions to. But they do not want to share technology
and ideas with the African countries. All the latest technology and skills they are closely guarded. Africa is left to rely on outdated technology and methods of doing things. The USA also ensures that the latest technology does not reach Africa, especially those that lead to large production of goods, Military equipments, economical reforms, self reliance and establishment of better advanced goods, machinery and transport system. The little advancement that Africa has is from the African students who have studied abroad and brought the knowledge back or those Africans who lived, worked or traveled abroad. But most of these Africans still don’t have access to the highly industrialized methods of the Western world, which the keep to themselves under lock and key. The USA has enough know-how and highly skilled brain power to turn the African economy into one of the most successful in the world but they choose not to and make Africans and the rest of the world believe that Africa’s problems has nothing to do with them and more to do with Africans themselves.
3. Privatization
African countries are pressured to fully privatize their industries as soon as possible while it has taken some Western countries hundreds of years to fully privatize its industries. Even Australia and UK, which have been independent for centuries, still have government owned companies. So why does the USA want small democratic African countries to privatize their national companies while it took them centuries to fully privatize its companies and it still hasn’t fully done that?
The reason is because it wants newly independent African countries most of them less than fifty years old to privatize their companies so that the USA and its Western allies can buy them at cheap prices and run them down so that African countries still remain poor. This also denies the local African people to be rich and powerful and start questioning the USA’s authority in this world.
With the companies in Western hands, most African countries are kept silent and are controlled by the USA Their policies, their budget and even their political system is determined by the USA. “He who feeds you tells you what to do”. And if African countries refuse to privatize, aid is taken away from them. So they are not even advised to privatize, their forced to privatize.
Privatization also causes job losses because the new owners don’t care about the local people. They just care about profit. With job losses, people start complaining, the government at the same time is thinking how to pay back loans and with not enough goods being exported, they government is short of income and decides to print new notes, thus inflation and this goes on for a long time in some cases to hyper inflation.
That’s how you have US$1 equals 5000 or 50000 African local’ currency.
Thus the people struggle to make ends meet and blame is put on the government because people cannot see the underlining cause.
4. Civil Wars
The USA also uses civil wars to block Africa’s success. Most civil wars occur in the richest parts of Africa, for example: Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, and Sierra Leone etc. These countries are rich in natural resources and in normal circumstances
They should be one of the richest countries on earth. But instead of developing their country, the people have been fighting each other. There is no country in Africa that manufactures guns at large scale, if any at all. So where do these weapons come from. Answer: C.I.A. The USA encourages two sides of a group of people in a country to fight. It provides them weapons through the C.I.A in exchange for their natural resources. Though the main reason is to hinder the countries development.
How do all these weapons reach Africa when the USA and its allies monitor the seas? At small scale they can be smuggled but large quantities of weapons are taken to Africa. These are the same weapons that the local people use to kill each other. And as long as they are killing each other and not attacking America, America doesn’t care. There can never be a war without funds and America funds these civil wars to hinder the progress of African nations. And when the people are tired of killing each other, USA formulates the peace treaties and draws a road map to “development”, so that no other country rains on its parade. America still remains in charge and keeps an eye on to ensure that the country does not stabilize and become powerful.
It encourages the country to take up policies that seem good but later on hinder development. It keeps the country happy by giving it just a bit of aid to survive.
It claims to be a friend but it’s not at all. All it’s doing is keeping a watchful eye of a potential challenger. (Keep your friends close and your enemies closer). And that is why America has an embassy in almost every country in the world. It wants to monitor these countries’ activities.
Though some of the coups in Africa have been caused by stupid and greedy generals, America still has had a hand in a lot of them. For instance, America through C.I.A
Mobuto Sese Seko takeover of Congo, which he later named Zaire. Without the American’ backing, he would never have had the guts to do it.
Coups hinder Africa’s development and America has encouraged coups for years. Whenever America is threatened by a country’s president, it will decide to replace him with an alternative president of its liking, who will be a puppet.
This has happened even outside Africa. For example in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There, the presidents are America’s puppets. They buck when America says so, they jump when America says so. Where’s the democracy. I thought presidents were supposed to listen to their people and cater for their people’s needs and not to foreign nations and foreign presidents. America does what suits it, and not what is democratic.
Democracy only exists when it suits America. And America can do no wrong. After all it’s “the greatest country on earth”. It’s bad for Iraq to invade Kuwait but it’s okay for America to invade Iraq. How ironic.
5. Bad Publicity
Nothing good about Africa is said on Western news. And most of the major news outlets and T.V networks are owned by America and its allies. America has encouraged people to view Africa as a poor continent, where all sorts of crime and lawlessness prevails. This then hinders tourists to go to Africa, denying Africa of the much needed income. It also makes African people to have a low self esteem about their countries and themselves. The West is advertised as “heaven” and Africa as “hell”. Due to this the people embark on going overseas to study and most don’t even go back to Africa to develop it because the media has made it look like a bad place to live. African countries are heavily bombarded with Hollywood movies and Western lifestyles so that the can ditch their lifestyle and move to the West to become like their fictional movie heroes. This appeals very well to younger people and hence a lot of the young, creative brains are taken away from Africa to the West and help develop the West even more while Africa lingers in poverty.
America also makes a lot of goods: T-shirts, bags, caps etc. with USA, I love New York, L.A etc printed on them and sent to Africa. Making Africans wanting to learn more about USA and going there. Even food donated to poor nations has USA written on the bags. This is just to entice young Africans to think of America as a great nation and the best place to live on Earth.
The whole media is full of USA this, USA that. All this is so that our minds think of no other country but the USA It’s a great marketing strategy by the USA.
This USA propaganda doesn’t just have an impact on Africa but also other countries. The difference is with other countries especially its allies, it helps to develop but with Africa, it hinders development.
http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Africa/00000012.htm
http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Africa/00000010.htm
