[t.D.A.]

Just for the sake of contrast I will talk about some of the great things I have observed and think that we as a continent have done:
1) Until recently, 50+ tribes in Kenya actually co-existed peacefully. Even in this violent time, almost all of the tribes still get along with all the attacks being directed at one tribe. If you study European and American history, you read a history of cold blooded colonization of Europeans by Europeans (Romans with the British, British with the Irish and US etc, Eastern Europe by Western Europe etc etc. In America, any time a new group of people landed in the country, they were met with huge backlash, the Irish when the first showed up had to fight for their piece of the pie and do we really need to talk about slavery and how they had oppressive laws such as child labor laws, 16 hour days etc etc).
2) In spite of our poverty, the major disease of our time has not wiped us out and doesn't seem like it will even though it still ravages through our continent. Think the Black plague vs AIDS.
3) The work ethic and productivity of our people once we are put out in the West to compete...need I say more.

I could go on and on, but my general point is that, as bad as our continent maybe, we are miles ahead of Europe in terms of where they were at the same time (e.g. England after it stopped being a Roman colony). Europeans were still slaughtering each other all the way until WW2.

What do you think the chances are that Africa will erupt into a continent wide war? I must apologize for not having references to back up my claims, if any one has any references that back up or dispute my claims please feel free.

One of my missions in life is to get rid of that ,"What's wrong with us Africans?" line of questioning. Personally I think it's futile and won't move us in a positive direction. I prefer questions like: " How can we best use our current situation?" "How can we turn what seem like problems into opportunities and use them to drive our continent forward?"

I hope this serves to shake up your thinking a little bit.