you madam are the retarded one. good for u for being like everyone else...im unsure what ur getting at, apart from that your healthy watermelon diet is cancelled out by the fried chicken.
and #12 its not every white persons fault like its not every black persons fault. im just talking about africa generally, not black people in other continents or countries.
i got some info for you, from a childrens website to ensure its easily understandable for everyone
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4070000/newsid_4077100/4077104.stm
Why is Africa poor?
By the year 2000, half the world's poor were in Africa.
It is the only continent to have become poorer in the past 25 years.
This is because of several reasons:
* Borrowing money
* Growing cash crops
* Dictatorship
* Fighting
* Population growth
* Land ownership
* Climate change
* Dirty water
Borrowing money
Fifty years ago African nations were encouraged to borrow huge amounts of money to spend on farming and businesses. (im just going to add here that encouragement is a very weak word in this case, and in addition to this they were not told properly about repayments and interest)
But in many cases it was spent on other things like dams and airports.
Some aid was also stolen by corrupt leaders and used to pay for war.
When you borrow money from a bank, you have to repay it, plus a bit extra. This is called interest.
African countries found they couldn't pay interest on their debts. The interest was added to the total amount they owed, leaving counties more and more in debt.
Between 1995 and 1997 for example, Mozambique spent more on paying back its debts than on health and education.
Growing cash crops
Many African nations tried to make money by selling food such as tea, coffee and fruit to other countries.
These products are known as cash crops because they are grown for money rather than as food.
This lead to land, which could have been used to grow food for the population, being used up.
In some countries, such as Tanzania, farmers were forced to grow coffee rather than crops for people to eat.
Also African countries were forced to accept low prices set by countries buying their goods.
Large companies bought land from the African governments and created big farms.
As a result, many local farmers were forced to give up their land and work on the companies' farms.
Not only were African countries unable to grow enough to feed themselves, they were too poor to buy food from abroad.
and u can read the rest yourselves. or google a slightly more in depth article.
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Lose the white guilt dude. You didnt do shit to africa. The Europeans did a number on afrcia yea, but that was over a generation ago. Their current situation is 100% their responsibility now. The only thing that industrialized nations can do to help them is to end farm subsidies, let them compete in the world market and stop giving them aid.
, lots of insecurity issues.
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