i do take issue with ur use of the expression “dark continent” though. it evokes that joseph conrad-like imperialistic thing

Rwanda Genocide and Army of thieves 1
-chan mongol

We forgot Genocide in RWANDA
Deads and massacre in Africa.
Floating on water and lifeless
Almost all men in their villages!

Published in media and Newspapers
Always presented terrible pictures.
They got ongoing profitable industry
On humans hardship and misery!

General Romeo Dallaire told us all
About the blood-bath humanity fall.
He mentioned how hateful coward
Bangladesh Army UNO sponsored!

We found lot in book and memoir
Written by General Romeo Dallaire
Bangladesh Military’s very low life
Stole soap, towels, smoke and pipe!

Rwanda Genocide and Army of thieves 2
-chan mongol

Coward Military crooked, dramatic
With greed and defected! genetic!
They beg and pray for victim public
In stealing, robbing disturbing sick!

What good are they, bandits, immoral
Bloody, miscreants, dummy and peculiar!
General Dallaire said in his book
Bangladesh Army’s notorious look!

They should be cut from UNO fund
No more exercise in UNO’S ground.
Small country very poor finance
They shouldn’t have Army Importance.

Coward fighters Officers ranks
Bad history with souls full blanks.
In webmaster@bdmilitay.com
Said, Africans in monkeys form.

Racist website must be banned
Their rubbish military should be end.
Misuse of fund, no more good
To make rascals unpolite rude!

Very true and it’s not only in Africa but in Asia too. It seems that the goal of those NGO people is not to help victims rather, to live like diplomats.

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The greater absurdity is how few can speak or understand the national language of whatever country they are in – unable to read a newspaper, follow the TV news, enjoy the radio or understand the water cooler gossip of their colleagues. Quite cut off from public debate.

These same organisations also pay ‘local’ salaries that are some of the best available, but they won’t make you a millionaire or anywhere close in most internationally traded denominations. To what extent these lead ‘local’ employees to be cut off from the real world, I’m not so sure. No more than the rest of the small but growing elite with similar salaries in the private sector.

My opinion on NGOs is not well-informed enough but I have always been uncomfortable with aid workers and the style in which they live.

All you have to do is to walk in the working-class neighborhoods of big African cities to feel like you are on another planet. The whites there live in bunkers which they only leave in 4×4s. They would claim the contrary but they only go to certain neighborhoods (which they believe are working-class!) At Mokolo, in the Brique à Yaoundé neighborhood, you almost never see whites. Also over there, they called me “the fake white” because I walked on foot…it’s funny…

What I am trying to say is that the “white man” is almost invisible on the dark continent, he is made ghost-like, essentially through the media (the Western media that is); he represents wealth, power, and more seriously, knowledge and culture, as though they [the Africans] themselves were not rich in culture and secular traditions. In this sense there is a real sort of inverse racism that consists of thinking that the other is superior. It is because of this that Africa dies and is so docile in the face of the pillaging and of their continent. Some still think they cannot live without the West, it’s hallowed bread for Western profiteers and their African accomplices. Here we can just how much, and here I measure my words, the treatment of blacks, colonization and the liberal neocolonialism in its duration (many centuries) and as an uninterrupted historical phenomenon, constitute the biggest crime ever committed by man. What is killing the African is not so much the deplorable political or economic conditions as it is the feeling of inferiority that has been engrained in him after centuries of slavery and racism.

Il suffit de se balader dans les quartiers populaires des grandes villes africaines pour se sentir extra-terrestre. Les blancs là-bas sont bunkerisés et ne se déplacent qu’en 4×4 rutilants. Ces derniers prétendront le contraire mais en fait ils ne vont que dans certains quartiers (qu’ils croient populaires !). A Mokolo, au quartier de la Brique à Yaoundé, on ne voit quasiment jamais de blancs. D’ailleurs là-bas, on m’appelait « le faux blanc » car je marchais à pied…c’est amusant … Là où je veux en venir c’est que le « blanc » sur le continent noir est presque invisible, il est fantasmé, essentiellement à travers les médias (occidentaux faut-il le rappeler) ; il représente la richesse, le pouvoir et plus grave, le savoir et la culture comme si eux-mêmes n’étaient pas riches d’une culture et de traditions séculaires. Dans ce sens-là il y a un vrai racisme, inversé dirons-nous, qui consiste à penser que l’autre est supérieur. C’est de cela que meurt l’Afrique et qui fait qu’ils sont si dociles au pillage et à la mise sous tutelle de leur continent. Certains pensent encore qu’ils ne peuvent pas vivre sans l’occident, c’est du pain béni pour les profiteurs occidentaux et leurs complices africains. Ici on peut mesurer combien , et je pèse mes mots, la traite des noirs, la colonisation et le neo-colonialisme libéral constituent dans sa durée (plusieurs siècles) et en tant que phénomène historique ininterrompu, le plus grand crime commis à l’échelle de l’homme. Ce qui tue l’Africain ce n’est pas tant des conditions politiques et économiques déplorables que le sentiment d’infériorité qui s’est immiscé en lui après des siècles de servitude et de racisme.