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Originally posted by Liquor Dealer
How involved should anyone get into African affairs? I'm not sure it can be dealt with an a national basis - I think you'd end up having to deal with the entire continent - save a couple of exceptions. The results of European imperialism that failed and the nations they either abondoned or were kicked out of have, for the most part, never really functioned as governments above the tribal level in most instances. If the UN was capable of dealing with a problem of this extent then they are probably the ones that should deal with it - perhaps if even the African nations could agree to form some sort of international organization on their continent it might be helpful.
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Africa is a very fragmented continent. Even in countries different tribes simply can not agree on how to run a country. On top of that there is a huge aids problem and a massive debt.
Africa is kept poor by the west. If we would discontinue aid and instead would open up our markets for African products and commodities they would be far better of. As of now, we do not allow to sell them their products.
In fact, we oblige them to buy our products with the aid money we send them. Which is received by massively corrupt government officials.