[HUNDA]

This is a Quote from the Nations Editorial

It is widely believed among correspondents in
Africa that the only stories their editors back
home are really interested in are those about
their own nationals, preferably in trouble, and
about wild life. I once asked a German
correspondent which stories his editors wanted.
He thought a long time, then said, "Actually,
they would prefer me not to send anything at
all."


Have you on accasion imagined that the European (or other) Media have taken very negative story lines as news from Africa. That sometimes the bad attitudes of people all over the world (even Africans themselves) towards Africa stems from the potrayal of the Media????????

[ngong]

why do u think they refer to Africa as the dark continent? si we are in the darkness and they believe nothing good comes from africa. they see africa as one big game reserve. they make great efforts to see africa remains a jungle so tourists can be able to go for "safaris" away from their "civilised worlds".

this is why i think us as africans we should tell the rest of the world to fack off. they are not helping us they are just exploiting us. we don't need the rest of the world to survive. there is no natural resource that is not found in Africa(prove me otherwise). we have huge human resource. we should unite africa. that is why i support mummar gadaffi in calling for the africa union so that we start depending on ourselves. i'm tired of the bullshiit of the 1`st world using us to enrich their countries. wana tuuzia mamtoo ili tujimade ndio tuwakindie madiamond sare.na hiyo munde tunapata tunaitumia kununua mamtoo hata zingine ilitujiue. ilikuwa hivyo hivyo hata wakati ya slave trade.

mugabe when he told tony blair to fack off "we are not britian, we do not want to be british. we are zimbabweans and will keep our zimbabwe" The first world given half chance will divide africa again kama vile walifanya huko lancerst.

[Chameleon]

If you really want to know how bad a westerner thinks of Africa then you have to talk to the one on the streets.

The only picture anybody sees of Africa is of disease, war and hunger. In other words its a place where nothing good can come from.

This kind of racist condescending attitude did not start the other day, its an old time way of attitude that the white person always likes to prove, that the black person is helpless and useless and he is better of being guided.

Its an attitude that can be found in their history books, movies and newspapers that Africa and Africans are empty people with no ideological or religious thing to offer to the rest of the world.

This is the reason why western ambassodors, NGO and financial banks always feel the need to stick their noses in our business.

A good example is when we intiated the African Union, Instead of the western media being positive about the whole thing, they started critisizing and asking each other if it will fail like the OAU.

The question is why do they have to always put as down? Why are they afraid that we might succeed?

.

My solution is that we have to break away from this people. We have to start coming up with our own original ideas and solutions to our own problems. We have to start behaving like free people and clean up our act.

The truth is that a leopard can never change its spots. We should always remember that the westerner is the same person who enslaved us, colonized us, forced us to be christians, communists and capitalists.

He even offered us sham independence, therefore we should never think that he wants us to be free from depending on him.



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[HUNDA]

The press is too powerful and big money is running the big press like CNN. I hear that Lybia is a really good country where health services and housing is available for all people. The standard of living there is very high. Does anyone have any websites or newsclips that can back this up. I am really fed up with the press in the Western world.

[jakanam]

You had very good points but later on you decided to use a language that I do not understand. Otherwise you better use kiswahili/English next time. Please do me favor

[jakanam]

@Chamelion

I do support majority of your sentiments on the International Press.However, I also beg to differ with you that Africa should detach/distanced/separate itself from the western World. I feel that we need alot to learn from them just in the same way they need from us. There are some crucial things that we lack in Africa not because we are being oppressed by the westerners, but it´s because we´ve not embassed them as part of a neccessity in day to day running of a government i.e infrastructure, the education system and most importantly the health system in Africa in Africa. When I was in Kenya( my beloved country), i noticed that Schools and health centers constructed and run by the European Missionaries were clean and seemed to be better managed than the Kenyan Public ones.( This was my own observation)

Later on when I went to Europe, I witnessed a very big difference though I also didn´t like the racist character that they(europeans) had against africans. Even the beggers in the street were better organised than the ones I saw in kenya(my beloved country)

We need the Westerners and the westerners need us.

If all of us consider the situation of brothers and sisters in Kenya or any part of Africa,You will agree with me..........

[SHEILA]

Actually, I am now at the point where I seriously dont care what the westerners think of us.
In this day and age of technology noone can plead ignorant to the real deal unless you are content being that way.
If people think Africa and Africans are all poor and diseased...there is nothing that Africans can do about that as people just always have to have a group to look down on to feel better about themselves. Forget them!

[ngong]

jak, pole i guess u r not from nairobi. what i was asaying in the latter part is that these people sell us guns so that we can kill each other. then they are able to buy our resources e.g. diamonds in liberia. then the money they give us we use to buy even more guns. most of this wars are for control for the land(country). lakini they(europeans) are the one who are the root cause of thr problems. its them who decided in Lancerst to draw lines across the continent of africa. before that we did not have kenya, uganda , zambia, CAR. land was land pure and simple. u and your community settled on the land. u farmed it and community shared the harvest. we produced enough to feed the community. had parties to celebrate the harvest, our ancestors, births and we mourned our dead. we did not care about the economy of the region, what we cared for is the welfare of the community.

lakini those people brought to us the individualistic capitalist bullshiit in which everyone cares for himself and readily facks his neighbour(economy wise) in order to get ahead in life. suddenly individuals started owning land. we had poor landless people with no way of making a living and getting a decent meal.

i think africans where more of a communistic nature then the poisonous capitalist.

[jakanam]

@Sheila

Another point That I observed when i went to Europe is that They had a vast number of the elderly people than the case is in Africa( An Evidence of better medical services). The elderly population are people who know how to read and write unlike africa..Infact, you can bear me witness that in Africa, We also have a number of young generation who do not know how to read and write.....MEN WE NEED THE WESTERNERS........THOUGH WE SHOULD FIGHT RACISM BECAUSE IT´S EVIL IN ANY HUMAN SOCIETY AND THE WESTERNERS ARE WRONG TO PRACTICE IT......

[Chameleon]

Jakanam,

Yes we might learn alot from this westerners, yes we need to clean up and reorganize ourselves.

But if you look at all the problems that face Africa from wars, coups and mismanagement have all originated from the west or from corrupt African leaders who were propped and supported by this westerners.

This are not our friends, this are people who want to maintain the same dependance system that we have on them.

Do you remember the NEPAD plan, do you remember how much they agreed to pledge? Why do you think that they insisted on dealing with individual African countries by themselves instead of dealing with Africa/Nepad as a whole?

Its because Africa is supposed to be fagmented, because its easier dealing and controlling segments than dealing with a unit as a whole e.g Nepad or AU.

Thats why there is so much cynism in the western press whenever we try to organize.

Everybody knows that Africa has alot of potential, we have the population, manpower and minerals to shoot up without depending on them.

Compaired to most of this western countries which have either depleted or polluted their enviroments, Africa has everything that it needs in terms of minerals.

A good example is the Congo, a nation which is the size of western europe. People have been killing its nationals and stealing minerals from Congo for almost 1 hundred years, and yet the minerals have never been depleted.

Ask yourself, why should Congo export raw diamonds and colton (mineral that makes cell phone) when they can cut and process the same minerals in Congo by opening their own industries?

Thats why no matter how much they critisize us, they still insist on living in the same hopeless countries that they hate/envy because they know its potential-why would anybody want to live in a place that is hopeless i ask?

We are a different generation of Africans, we are probably more exposed than our forefathers, we dont suffer from the same inferiority complex our old leaders have towards westerners.

Some of us have lived out here in the west and we now know how the game is played, and the game being the world is about economic power and controlling other people.

It has very little to do with religion, race or friendship, We have to stop being naive and start being suspicious and selfish about our land and interests.

Let me tell you something, this guys are always 100 hundred steps ahead of us, You will be suprised about the kind of data they have on us, they know about our weakness and where we will stamble.

The only way we can stay ahead is by thinking and staying ahead, we should remember that we are the hunted and they are the hunters and we as the bait have to stay ahead of the hunters, because my friend the world is a jungle.



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