Why can't Africa feed itself yet?

Because the government is corrupt, money is mismanaged, the government is living a good life so they could care less about the people, and aids there is... God, no words can tell you what aids is done to that place. People are not well educated in Africa about aids and all the sexually transmited diseases. When they want to help people and send donnations like that it is mostly because there are children that are orphans because their parents died of aids and they are left hungry, with nothing and having to take care of their little brothers and sisters. So they don't just wanna help the country, they wanna help the children. I do think that we need to take care of our children though, I mean look at our health care system? A family lost their little baby boy to cancer and there was a major problem witht heir health care plan, about A MONTH after thei little boy died they got a bill for I think it iwas five hundred thousand dollars or so from their health care company, so I think they have to sell their house or something like that. The same thing with Israel, they are taking over you know where with the help of you know who! I mean, I have nothing against us helping people in need but Israel has had enough help, now it is someone else's turn! Sometimes I think that Iraq is " our next Israel" and we are going to support them forever. Hope not!

The thing about Africa being in sand may have some to do with it, but mostly it is because of the government robbing the people, I mean Egypt is in sand, they are a country that is well... Well they are not as horribly managed as Africa, Saudi Arabia is in sand so?! Sand has nothing to do with a country being rich or poor, the government has. Brazil is a country with so much potential, it is not "in sand" as Africa, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and that country is so poor that childen DIE of hunger and no one brings that to anyone's attention. I was watching something on tv that they showed a little girl's picture and said that last month that little girl died of hunger and no one knows about it. Any country has potential, even Afghanistan has potential, we need to take care of our own children first, our health care system, our homeless people, and latter help other countries get their corrupt government out so the country can grow. Africa and any other place that has a corrupt government is NEVER going to grow if the people don't get together and do something about it's government! I mean, people think... I am only one person, I can't do anything about it, I go there alone and no one will listen... Well that is the good thing about the U.S we know we have a voice because we make our voice heard, we don't care if we are one person, 2 people or one thousand people, we make our voices heard even if only one person is talking, screaming we make ourselves heard. People in these countries need to get together and make their voices heard, not just wait for the US to come around and other countries and help out. Africa is not a problem of the United States, Africa is a problem for the whole world to help out with. And teach them to help themselves out, fix their own problems.

I would help Africa if I was financially able to, I love helping people and would help anyone financially if I can and if they need it, I have done it many tmies, but I am a problem solver, I like to help people and show them how to fix the problem in the future so if the problem arises again, they will fix it themselves and I can move on to help someone else. Now we keep on collecting donnations over and over from the US and other countries to help Africa but we don't teach them to fix the problem, we don't help them fix THE GOVERNMENT problem, what are we going to do, send donnation for the next 100 or so years? We need to help them financially, we need to teach them to fix the problem so they can stand on their feet, one continent, one people all together, one voice ALL HEARD!

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Was the USA booming 50 years after idependance from England?

Did you know colonization put different ethnic groups in the same country. Did you know Africa is very diverse and some country have lists of ethnic groups in them. Theres not a country in Africa where the country even speaks the countrys language ie England Eglish, France French. Have you ever hear of Nigerian or Ugandan languages they dont exist they have many within them.

Idependances have only happened over the last 50 years do you expect the devestated continent to all of a sudden become a super power.

Did you know half of Africas population in under 25

When Europeans left they simply did just that unlike what USA is not doing in Iraq and they left for only the brutal to take over and the curruption began. They needed to keep their authority against all those other ethnic groups and took big loans from the world bank which the western world allowed this created debt which loweres their currencies and this makes buisness intrests in these countries fall. Then the countries become dependant and infryustructure collapses no one wants to intervene but simply send aid to the governments because as long as the western world keeps Africa chaotic can they get what they want without even ruling them no more

And this is how chaos profits:

Aid- Is sent to African leaders who they know will do sh.it with the money so it basically keeps the chaos going.

Media- The reason you are even asking this question is beacues what you see on your TV With mostly negative media on Africa can people think not to go there let alone do buisness there making African nations only able to do buisness with the western world governments and they can make the rules because African nation are desperate.

Unfair trade- As they are desperate for trade the western world decides the prices they will buy the African exports (since when do you walk in a shop and say how much you are going to buy something).

Theres so much you dont know about how the real western world really is if they cared about humans Africa would not be the way it is but they care about profits first and they are simply profiting from poverty.

Trust me if Africa economys grow will the western worlds slow down and will be equal and I know they dont want this to happen.

Then again Africa has 53 countries and is not filled with poverty I ve been there many times and I have not seen a person starving in person yeah beggers but you can find them in any city of the world.

I read that entire passage and although most of it MIGHT be true, one can still also bring up other examples/find flaws in the passage. I shall do that know: Slavery- Although Arabs and other blacks did sell Africans to Europeans as slaves, slavery was mainly capitalized by Europeans, and then Americans. The article makes it seem that blacks and Arabs started the concept of slavery, when in Europe there were Polish, Roma (Gypsy), Slavic, slaves for some time. The Vikings captured Irish, Scottish, and British people and sold them as slaves during the Middle Ages. Also, in the 16th century, Japanese captured Koreans and used them as slaves. Lets not forget about serfdom in Europe, which was practically slavery. The passage also brings up that slavery "remains extant in places like the Ivory Coast". Well, there is modern day slavery all around the world in places, whether it be sexual slavery or slave labor. In the Soviet Union, the forced labor camps (gulags) was pretty much slavery. In Muslim countries today children are used as camel jockeys in conditions that would be defined as slavery. Even in Nepal there are hundreds of thousands instances of sexual slavery by young Nepalese girls. Cannibalism: "I want to mention Bokassa snacking on human remains..." Eww. In China there was an event known as "The Cultural Revoltution" in the 1960s. It was led by Mao Zedong and was initiated by young communists. The intent was to purge China of Western influences, religion, capitalism, and other concepts. It eventual got out of hand, and communists were killing, torturing, raping, and even devouring bodies of people who opposed them. Imperialism- I'm going to keep this short. Imperialism might have done good in building of infrastructure and bringing religion into the natives life, but imperialism/colonialism also caused the harsh labors of natives such as in India and Africa; chopping of hands and feet of natives in the Congo if they did not work hard enough, which was done by King Leopold's Belgian forces; the raping of natives; and the over-exhaustion of natural resources which have crippled Africa's and Asia's economy and prevented them from ever excelling in the world stage. Also, Africans should be able to fend for themselves. They got independence, now they should use it. I was not condemning anyone or any group of people. I was just offering rebuttals to the passage. I'm done now, and I'm sorry about this extremely long post. :)

that's a really good point... the question i think should be, are we really helping Africa or are we pulling them down? the problem is the mentality of both US and Africa. In this relationship, I think that Africa is leaning too much on us, but at the same time I think we are tolerating such things to occur.

I'm not saying not to help Africa, the point I wanted to raise is that if you give a beggar a fish, he eats for a day. But if you teach the beggar how to fish,he eats for a lifetime. People are so generous really, but their generosity is out of their emotions (sympathy, pitty?) that we end up making irrational decisions. I think the best way is to teach them how to fish, not give them fish.

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Dude, the land in places where African people are starving is almost completely SAND. Seriously, what grows in sand? Until the people move (which they never will) or acquire educations at least average on a world-scale and bring in businesses (little hope there too), we'll always be sending them aid.

Africa is being regularly robbed, manipulated and stopped in its progress by powers from the outside and inside.leaders and their families network and wire all the riches for themselves, etc... There are so many riches in the soil, agricultural, industrial and other opportunities that benefit a few nationals and many internationals while the rest of the people survive, live, thrive despite the lacks.

what you say is right

things seem to have been like this for as long as i can remember

now with so many people dying of aids and so many orphans it doesn't look like it is going to get any better

crooked politicians who syphon off the aid leaving the people no better off is part of the problem

big spending on arms for the never ending wars that happen in a part of the world where tribal allegiences are more important than anything else

and these problems seem to be happening in most of africa......

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looking at the pattern of thumbs down it would seem that someone is reluctant to accept that corruption is a major component in the poverty of this region

have you seen the way the politicians live and dress?

and mugabe is 80+ in a country where the average age of mortality is 38.....he doesn't look like he has missed too many meals

Govenment mismanagement and corruption, poor economic management, dictatorships and military juntas. If it was managed properly it could be very prosperous, Africa has a lot of natural resources, including some wonderful farming land.

the sad truth is that african countries r being governed by corrupt leaders. u'll be amazed that one african president has more than the amount being sent to aid the entire country sitting in his account. they just keep stealing money for their personal gain while d entire country remains under-developed.its just plain evil.

Cuz the mega bucks go to the people governing Africa, and they keep most of the money to themselves.