This has to be regarded as another form of the slave trade and abolished ! Individuals must be accountable for accepting loans and not nations. If loans are then made to leaders of nations then the person making the loan has to accept the consequences of stupidly loaning money to a person who has no intention or means to pay the loan back.

If we collect 300 billion dollars and pay back the loans, then the loan sharks happily remain unaccountable as do the African “leaders” who will repeat the exercise all over again in future.

We need an African constitution written by African people which every African leader in every African nation has subscribe. Constitutions are written to define the role and authority of government and to prevent them from abusing their positions. The constitution has to make sure that leaders thus responsibly serve their nations and not own, it like a tribal chief thinks he has a right to do.

God bless.

African Leaders :
1. Rule their nations the same way as tribal chiefs who obtained their positions through dominion and cunning.
2. See their subjects as their personal tribal possessions eg. Mubage said “So Blair, keep your England and let me keep my Zimbabwe” to the applause of his African colleagues.
3. See their countries resources as belonging to themselves alone as a tribal chief
4. Are extremely covetous to possess everything which benefits themselves alone, and if it is outside of their sphere of influence and ownership to obtain it by whatever means
5. Very desirous to be seen as benefactors to their subjects and to receive this praise
6. Love the recognition of their subjects even if the compliments are complete self-delusion
7. Have no understanding or sympathy or empathy for the suffering of the people they rule
8. Are masters of manipulation in obtaining personal gain through guilt from anybody foolish enough to feel indebted to them.
9. Will appear to pursue a noble cause in order to fulfill their lust for dominion. eg Robert Mugabe was installed into power in Zimbabwe by the liberals in Britain who he fooled into believing he wanted liberation for Zimbabwe when he actually wanted Zimbabwe for himself. The moment he came into power he slaughtered thousands of Matabele opposition. Today the false myth is still perpetuated in Western liberal circles that Mugabe was once a righteous man in an attempt to remove the egg from their faces for foolishly installing him into power.
10. Understand that to keep all the possessions they covet they need to create a system which will protect their situation from any other African who is as covetous as they are and so the military and police are employed as personal bodyguards.
11. Will sell anything belonging to their nation for personal gain and recognition.
12. Live in a stupor of self-adulation and self-congratulation
13. Do not see the problems that their nation have as their problem to solve, as their own vision does not extend further than their own needs.
14. Will not stand as an individual to decry the violent crimes of a colleague who is also in African rulership as it might damage his support when he needs to do the same thing in the future.
15. Accepts no responsibility and denies all responsibility for faults in his administration and lays the blame on somebody else.

These are the character traits that have not changed since the days of slavery which occurred before the worst kind of Europeans arrived into Africa. From the outset, relations between Europe and Africa were economic. Portuguese merchants traded with Africans from trading posts they set up along the coast. They exchanged items like brass and copper bracelets for such products as pepper, cloth, beads and slaves - all part of an existing internal African trade. Domestic slavery was common in Africa and well before European slave buyers arrived, there was trading in humans. Black slaves were captured or bought by Arabs and exported across the Saharan desert to the Mediterranean and Near East. Europeans of equally wicked moral character merely found that African chiefs were willing to sell anything for their personal benefit including their own tribe members. That is why Africa was the source of the worlds slaves, since it was unheard of in any other society, where a patriarchal figure does not vehemently protect those in his care, but sells them for his own benefit. Even today African parents have very large families for entirely self-beneficent reasons, as they see them as a resource to take care of them in their old age, which I believe is where the entire African leadership model has its source.

In Tim Jeal’s authoritive and very well researched book on David Livingstone he reports that missionaries in Africa were only tolerated as “gun-menders” and that David Livingstone warned other missionaries not help weak tribes in African gain the ascendancy over tribes that plundered them, to sell their members into slavery, as they would then become slave traders themselves. In fact African leaders would sell members of their own tribe into slavery if they could not capture members of neighboring tribes. Also weaker African tribes would follow the slave caravans of the Arab and Portuguese traders and when they discarded the sick and weak captives along their journey to the coast, these tribes would collect, care for and help these poor people to recover and once healthy, then sell them to the next slave caravan. That is why it was so easy for a few slave traders to collect so many human slaves on a continent where they were hugely outnumbered.

David Livingstone tried to explain to an African chief that he was as guilty of slavery as the Portuguese and Arab slave-traders were, for selling his people to them but the African chief denied any responsibility and said that the slave-traders were the only ones to blame because he would not have sold people into slavery if they had not offered him goods for them. This is the logic that so baffles the mind, that the moral persuader gives up trying !

The solution to this problem:
African has to accept responsibility for its faults head-on like anybody with a problem has to admit in any program or self-help situation before any solution will every be achievable or even become evident. “A slap in the face from a friend is better than kisses from an enemy”

The African leader could not remain in power were it not for the exact same characteristics of the people of Africa who as individuals have the same flaws and aid and abet their leaders and refuse to censure their decadence as it reflects their own, but only oppose the leader when his leadership is a personal problem to their own benefit. Although sometimes the support baffles all logic: a Zimbabwean lady I heard on TV, say, that she was going to vote for Robert Mugabe again, as he had got them into this problem and that he must get them out of it now !

Main problems to face:
Covetousness, pride, selfishness, self-adulation, connivance, moral cowardice, self-seeking to name the most obvious. These are the characteristics that make Africans so vulnerable to the worst of the predatory characteristics of those who would exploit Africa for themselves outside of Africa.

I apologise to those great Africans who are the exception to this corruption and suffer to rise up against the African present African culture which drags any exception en masse to conform.

An example of the exception would be Archbishop Pius Ncube of Zimbabwe who stated that although the 53-state African Union last month condemned human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, so far African leaders have shied away from imposing sanctions, saying that would only hurt Zimbabwe’s poor. ”All they do is back each other up and drink tea,” the archbishop told one interviewer.

I love my friend Dr Dave’s post about Africa:

Nope, there is one simple reason you may want to avoid letting the whole continent slowly sink into perpetual famine and epidemics: because at one point, some of them will stop killing each other long enough to get together out of desperation and kick whatever foreign interest is implanted on their soil and reclaim stuff that probably should be theirs in the first place. And that, usually, doesn’t do any good to countries whose comfortable lifestyle depends on cheap, easy, access to said resources.

So as long as we keep pumping “aid” money into Africa so that Africans don’t ever get desperate enough to do something about their oppression, we’ll be able to continue our symbiotic relationships with the murderous dictators of their countries and get their natural resources on the cheap? That sounds logically correct to me, but I don’t think it’s morally right. I have the same problem with Saudi Arabia, where we prop up the terrorists and despots who oppress those people, all in the name of cheap oil. I don’t think it’s morally right to support the oppression of people so you can get their country’s natural resources cheaply. The money that we donate and pretend is helping them is merely being used to keep them complacent. It may help them stay alive, but it also keeps them enslaved. No one has the balls or the moral fortitude to help free them, so we perpetuate their oppression and once in a while we feel bad, and send some food over.

you’re so right about the live8 concert. i admire the effort and i agree that we should spread awareness. but goodness, imagine the amount of money we couldve raised for NGOs and UN organizations like UNICEF. ;\