"What plans do Africans in the west have for Africa apart from being border
line mouthy in discussing African politics."

Here in lies the answer to your dilema:

"All of us may not live to see the higher accomplishments of an African
empire, so strong and powerful as to compel the respect of mankind, but we
in our lifetime can so work and act as to make the dream a possibility
within another generation"

It all boils down to the individual to make the collective.  Not just
Africans in the diaspora (West in this case), but also those in Africa.  I
think we should start from the specific (invividual countries) and work
toward the general (African continent).  As long as we want to spend most
of our time talking about what a continent needs to do to get ahead and
not even participate in what happens in our individual countries, then we
would be running on the same spot at best.

As I write, at this very minute, Sare Ngai is a very good place to start
the ball rolling.  Unfortunately, the discussion on Africa drops dead the
moment we need to transition to the implementating of the very ideas we
come up with to save Africa.  I wonder why?  The road to a developed and
prosperous Africa starts in Sare Ngai, for Gambians.  Are we representing
in Sare Ngai? That is the million $ question.  Please join the STGDP in
Sare Ngai to change to a progressive leadership in the Gambia, for a
better Africa.

Chi Jaama

Joe

>    After Critically reviewing  the article, I was greatly disturbed and
> my
> mind was choked with the contents of it. Africa was very independent and
> self sustaining before the slave trade and colonialism, But since these
> two menace came to the continent,  we have been struggling and are never
> ourselves again. Destroying our human resources for no just cost is a
> curse, This reminds me of when President Johnson opposes  Black Suffrage
> in 1867, he said " If it were practicable at this time to give the
> Blacks a government exclusively their own, under which they might manage
> their own affairs in their own way, it would become a grave  question
> whether we ought to do so, or whether common humanity would not require
> to save them from themselves."
> He emphasized  that no independent government of any form has ever been
> successful in The hands of the Negroes, on the contrary, wherever we
> have been left to our own devices we have shown a tendency to relapse
> into barbarism. A divided nation where people don't apply common sense
> for the general prosperity is a cursed nation. But if anything can be
> proved by known facts,if all reasoning upon evidence is not abandoned,
> it must be aknowledged that in the progress of nations, Africans have
> shown less capacity for government than any other continent.
> What is Africa's Problem? Is it a Curse, Poor leadership or the Mass
> Migration of ambitious and Talented Africans to The West.
> In reality, I think if it is a curse, We Africans inflicted it on
> oursellves, by been selfish, hateful and corrupt we ruined and continue
> to ruin our continent with the ticking of each second.
> What plans do Africans in the west have for Africa apart from being
> border line mouthy in discussing African politics. I guess we should
> confront our leaders with ideas and suggestion, and if necessary, show
> them the way. A sense of Direction is what we need to subvert the curse
> into a blessing or else we will falter.
> It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of
> our lives, to change our current direction,we have to change our
> philosophy not our circumstances, With a good philosophy our
> circumstances will change for the good.
>
> Edward
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