It's often stated as a truism that nations 'get the Government they deserve': by not opposing weak or corrupt governments, people end up with these rotten administrations. However, noone seems to dare accuse African nations of this! Sub-Saharan African nations are almost exclusively governed by military dictatorships, corrupt, repressive elites or demagogues, yet the response from the developed world is (seemingly) infinite and patronising tolerance of this. Are the people of these nations in part to blame for their own predicaments? After all, many nations in SE Asia have been able to drag themselves out of the Third World in a way that most African nations have not been able to do.
2007-02-19
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