NO WAY, IF WE IN THE WESTERN WORLD CAN AVOID IT!
TO DO SO, we have and are willing to use every possible means at our disposal.
From bribing local governments and making them into neo-colonial puppets to stirring political unrest to cunningly support and even get involved in national and inter-African wars.
WE DO NOT STOP ANYWHERE AND AT ANYTHING!
We even save politically convenient presidents from the well deserved internal consequences of their corruption, nepotism, cronyism, brutality and general power abuse vis-a-vis their own people by saving and installing them in a neighbouring country or provide political asylum in our own!
From where they continue to rule indirectly through the self-interested loyal members of their party who were left behind.
We support and tolerate this, of course, only if this can assure a continuation of our own economic and political interests in the countries concerned!
DEVELOPMENT AID – THE BIGGEST LIE AND BS
The biggest lie of all, however, is what Western World governments call development aid and into which they allegedly pour billions to ‘help’ the poor of Africa to ‘develop’.
It is total and utter BS from the beginning to the end.
Its sole aim is to keep Africa and Africans as ‘underdeveloped’ (in Western World eyes) as is possible even if it costs us billions of bribe money if it guarantees us another decade of exploiting and importing Africa’s natural resources and paying a pittance (or nothing) for them so that we can validate them and cash on the huge profits of the validated goods.
Make no mistake – our development aid goes to the national governments – the ‘official’ channels, of course.
Only these can ensure that not even the tiniest fraction of these funds ever reaches to where Africa’s poor vegetate.
If it ever does, rest assured it is by mistake and not intent.
Which is quickly remedied by the donors.
They simply stop the next grants necessary to continue the project.
Which practically guarantees that every project collapses almost immediately.
Real development in Africa will take almost as long as the colonial powers exploited the continent!
The reality about development aid?
SUBSIDISING THE WEST!
Our so-called development aid for Africa is nothing else but an indirect subsidy for bad consultants, western world airlines and hotels owned by Western chains (or the corrupt African elites), totally useless machinery, equipment for which there is no use and no maintenance and goods produced by us in the Western world from seeds to pesticides to medicines to food to textiles to……
Where services and consultancies are concerned, these are almost always supplied by our own consultancies and the surplus of our bad experts who cannot find employment in our own countries.
They get, of course, double the fees of any local consultant, without whom they could not move an inch in the countries concerned as they seldom speak any of the local languages or have any real understanding of the subject matter for which they are supposed to provide Western World expertise.
And, of course, to find a good-sounding ‘cover-up’ term for more bribe money channeled into national governments because most projects need local NGOs – Non-profit goverment organisations, which are willing to sign off on any stipulated result of a funded project for a little bit a the share of the fees even if the project has never gone beyond the initial application phase.
WHY IS THAT?
MAKE NO MISTAKE, FOR AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS AND ALL INTERMEDIARIES POVERTY IS A HUGELY PROFITABLE BUSINESS!
The poorer, deseased or illiterate (in our languages!) their population, the more money their governments get.
So being a poor African nation is a hugely coveted source of direct unearned income of billions of dollars and euros now that Brexit is making it harder for the Brits to add their share.
BEST OF ALL – the governments do not even have to produce anything for these billions!
They do not have to sell any licences for mining their precious natural resources from ancestral lands. flog off traditional expertise and intellectual property of their ethnic people living within the artifical colonial national boundaries or sell their human labour knowing fully well that the farmers, the miners, the artisans, thei tradesmen and women are working below any minimum wage guarantees or any health and safety regulations, which we so religiously preach for our own Asian manufacturing countries.
For neo-colonial African governments their poverty status in the world’s statistics of poorest countries is like hitting the jackpot at a stock exchange!
Obviously, our ‘development aid’ bribes always go up with the increase in poverty, child death, illiteracy etc.
HOW SIMPLE CAN IT BE!
The return on this investment pays for new government buildings (constructed by their family members or cronies), salaries for more functionaries (mostly from their own ethnic people or party members), who need a profitable handshake for their political loyalty.
It pays for the fees of private international schools and universities attended by their for their own offspring so that the latter can get all the good jobs in government and international diplomacy frozen until the kids are of age.
Most importantly, however, it pays for their steadily growing bank accounts in Switzerland.
Or any other country where their money is safe – from any confiscation or intervention of the next set of African leaders should a government really be disposed by an angry populace that has reached the limits of its endurance.
Above all an African owned bank account has to sit in a country, where banks do not look too closely at the origin of millions of money once these are transferred from a ‘reputable’ bank in the USA, France, Great Britain.
Or even a recognised ‘African bank’, which is mostly also at least under a part control of one or the other of the former colonial masters.
THE WAY FORWARD
VALIDATING AFRICAS NATURAL RESOURCES BY AFRICANS FOR AFRICA!
AGAINST ALL ODDS!
And they are many!
Read the next blog!