Hi, What do you really think about the continent of Africa, especially Nigeria?

Question

Africa, they say is a land of promise, a land under rennaisance, a land of opportunities, a land of poverty, a land of diseases, a land where injustice is constitutional, a land where the people are considered as the happiest in the world, because they dance, party and jubilate in midst of terror, suffering oppression and injustice. It is also a land of hospitality, where the people love strangers and visitors more than themselves. (An African can give a visitor his supper and go to sleep on empty stomach), a land of abundant resources. What I do not understand is, amidst these bounties, why is Africa still scratching and scratching and never coming up with anything. (Is it that she has been condemned from creation, or that its people are truly monkeys? - brainwise, or what) Please... please... please somebody help my beloved Africa.

Answer 1

This is far too complicated subject to go into on answers. It would take a whole thesis to explain how Africa has been abused by the West (and continues to be).

Answer 2

I love Africa and I am particularly attracted to African women, preferring them to whites (I am Caucasian male). I am aquainted with many from Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Zambia, Gambia, Nigeria, Cameroon. The attraction is that they recognise that their role as women is different to that of a man, and just as important. They are not trying to be the same as men.

The reason Africa is struggling is that its countries have leaders who use their position to line their own pockets at the expense of their people, and the West wants African resources on the cheap. Extremes in climate do not help, but they can be overcome with the right investment. The West is responsible for bringing the three C's to Africa - Commerce, Christianity, and Corruption.

Answer 3

Its true that the continent of Africa does hold a lot of promising opportunities but what lets itself down is all the in-fighting and corruption that goes on.

I mean why is there always a threat of civil war in some states like Darfur right now for example? Why are political leaders in some states too greedy to address the needs of their people? Why are people in power more interested in lining their own pockets from major corporations who mine and suck away Africa's natural resources? All the money that some governments in Africa get from oil companies in particular must go somewhere, where it doesn't go is to the people who need it most.

Other countries, charities and groups try to help Africa but how can you help people who don't help themselves?

If you stop corruption, replace the dinosaurs that are your government, look at what the people of Africa need, channel your resources properly then Africa can truly be a jewel.

Answer 4

There is talk of a multi change coming, currency, stability in some other parts, a strike of oil a few years ago was kept quiet about in one particular country because they, didn`t want the Americans butting in.& yes it is a fantastic continent, there`s a lot to say for Africans, they may have nothing & are happy? we have almost everything & are unhappy?if I could afford to leave here I would but, i`m working on other things at the moment however, if the opportunity arises i will go.

Answer 5

Wow there are so many reasons and i was thinking only last night why i couldnt understand how after time and time again that people can live where floods are frequent, drought, insects anhialating crops, disease,..............now im talking about parts of africa where this happens. It defies sense that anyone would want to live there. Africa is the most fantastic continent in the world and it has an abundance of culture but it lacks structure, diplomacy, and order, what it needs is to stabilise and get rid of the warlords and militia who control the wealth of a great place.

Answer 6

Go to Nigeria and you'll see the problem at first hand. It's been brought about by the corruption of the rulers of the country (aided by Western interests like oil) It's more or less the same in the rest of Africa with a couple of exceptions.

Answer 7

i think that africa is beautiful. Actually no, I know that africa is beautiful! There is nothing like an african sunset!

Nigeria, never been there but I dont hear many positive comments regarding the country and its people. Its sad really, you hear about all these schemes and lies and deceit and people automatically assume the perpetrators are nigerian. That belief has stemmed from somewhere.

Answer 8

The Governments of this World of ours care not a tot as long as they can mine the Gold and Diamonds, strip the Continent of any and all of it"s natural resources whilst not concerning themselves with the effects this might have on the local population, after all it"s called Globalisation and money is God. Thank heavans we don"t all feel this way and there are people who are prpared to fight for the poor indiginous people of Africa.

Answer 9

Africa's problem is that it is full of Africans. Blaming everyone and everything else for their plight. (Imperialism, racism, capitalism, communism, the white man...etc etc.
You might have noticed that wherever large numbers of blacks congregate, Nottingham for example, you have violent crime, prostitution poverty and squalor.
Is there some coincidence here??
Mozambique, a small country, has the land, topsoil, climate and rainfall to be the breadbasket of Africa if farmed and managed properly.
The UN listed it as the poorest country in the world!!

I spent many years in Africa and I believe it to be a lost cause.

Answer 10

This is the eternal question. The answer has got to be history.