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I laugh at my continent when foreigners call us poor. You make a statement online about the continent or any country in it and the first thing that comes to people mind is "That poor country or poor continent". Who is to be blamed for all these, it isn't just the leaders anymore but the people are to be held responsible because they voted those leaders into power.

The image below shows you how wealthy Africa is and if she wasn't being raped she would had been the richest continent on earth.

         https://i.imgur.com/nBUQ6N7.jpg

What my continent have failed to realized is that power won't be given to you unless you fight for it. If the world was a fair one most African countries would had been among world leading country but instead we get treated like slaves and our wealth is been enjoy by other continents. What a shame >:(

From the marvel movie "Blackpanther" i believe the solution to the continent (Africa) problem is to act as the past Kings of wakanda did with their natural resource: Vibranium, they should learn to manage their resources themselves and later they can sell finish products to the outside world.

I never called Africa as poor continent, I think these people who thinks like that are just depending to the documentaries they have watched that shows the places that struggles.

Have you heard of the word "Revolution"? not just in one area... I'm talking about the entire continent.  Stop bitching and make a Change. it can only come fro0m the people of Africa.

Well technically South Africa and Libya were pretty good, Qaddafi had water in the desert from the Man Made River Project
Of course that all went south down there.
Raven Ein Tag Im Morgenland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1GK9KhooTY

https://theecologist.org/2015/may/14/war-crime-nato-deliberately-destroyed-libyas-water-infrastructure
https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/98/985575_re-use-this-re-libya-water-protodraft-how-s-this-look-.html

Zimbabwe is a mess internet access restricted, president flew away to Russia after making a tax hike on oil prices, that said resource rich development poor.
On the bright side at least they have China wanting a piece of it, that will force raise the bar by extension of competition.
China will not let the US destroy their interests and China will not yield giving Africa a chance.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/17/emmerson-mnangagwa-increase-zimbabwe-gas-tax-harks/

well there is a difference between having ressources in the ground and

having them processed into consumabel products, its plain and simple in a way that processing is more expensive.

I pray for Africa. Yes, it has incredible resources. But, like the example in Venezuela has shown there are also other things needed in order to have success. Responsible leaders are one of those. Little interference from outside forces is another. Finally, as someone mentioned, those countries need the financial backing to be able to to use those resources.
But, look at countries like China and India and their growth. There is certainly hope for the future!

right, so you need:

• Modern, well equipped, well trained army
• Diverse and free journalistic culture
• Diverse and free business culture
• Infrastructure to support all the above (communications, fortifications, transport etc)
• The army must defend all the above equally

If the army just defends the natural resources, then the people cannot act as the 2nd line of diffuse/distributed defense against those trying to interfere with and exploit the minerals. This is what made countries like Iceland, Switzerland and the US difficult to attack.

If you get the balance wrong, China, US, Britain or France will launch a propaganda campaign against you, then kick your ass in the ensuing war. Actually fighting for power is not easy.

Was literally just going to say this, it's a lot easier said than done when it comes to establishing a country that can hold itself up.

I do also think that certain African countries have a vested interest in continuing to be poor, as the foreign aid they get from other countries is only present due to their dire financial situations -- this is while this money is being siphoned by the leaders of the country and the poor get none of it.

I also thought this quote was pretty funny, didn't know people took movies like this seriously.

The blankpantha vibraniam shows how powerful the African continent can be if only it can look inward and develope their technology, but the African as we have today is a continent with confused leaders and blind followers who only celebrate wealth without asking for the source of such wealth.

Africa needs coal and natural gas power plants. Then establish industry by the power plant.

Mate, Africa is one of the most economically rich countries because of its natural resources. The political leaders and tycoons are the people you could actually blame for this but I can see that Africa is really a reach country.

There is something needed to be changed in Africa and I think it's the overall system. What I hate about the people in Africa is that some of them are too manipulative and they always do their best to gain from the other's people innocence.  By doing their best to stop the people to learn things and study to have a pearl of great wisdom and education. People in Africa need a proper education to stop the leader to dominate them.

Also, the laborers are poor because they can't have the fruit they deserve. One of the problems in Africa is the wage. People tend to work a lot but not getting paid we can consider enough.

Please make a people power and fight about your rights. Someone needs to initiate and stop this oligarchy.

This is why Africa is poor. 

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/90/a9/28/90a928cb2d8b70e1d0846a1451e67d63.jpg

The only way you are ever going to be able to do anything about it is to take the facts into consideration and plan accordingly instead of trying to blame it on everything and everyone else..

i definately dont share, this oppinion africans can also be trained to solve IQ score tests to score them as good as asians or westerners

thank god i was able to free myself from racist upbringing in school.

Name me some African brands... Natural resources aren't indicators of country wealth ::)

Looking at Africa as a whole is about the same as looking at Europe as a whole. Each country has it's own sources of wealth and problems and they differ vastly from state to state. You can't compare Egypt to Sudan just like you can't compare France to Romania as all nations and both groups have vastly different cultures and GDPs. I agree that there's a certain misconception about Africa in the West, but that's what they get taught in school and there's a whole lot of whitewashing of their history and demonizing of them as peoples. You're basically taught that Africa is/was poor and helpless and is/was full of savages until they were colonized, which isn't really the truth. Demonizing races or peoples is the easiest easy you can get away with abusing them and justifying invasions and colonization etc and it still happens today, but focus has shifted to the Middle East because those are the wealthiest oil-rich nations and are the easiest ones to demonize and invade.



It's not really but that's what a lot of white supremacists like to tell themselves to justify abuses. What's the source for this study and how were they tested exactly? You will find that a lot of low IQs go hand in hand with poverty and a lack of education, and there are a whole load of reasons for that. Without access to a good education you're not going to have a very high IQ and the cycle repeats itself. I'm sure if you took the IQs of white American's living in trailer parks and in poverty you'd find they wouldn't score very well, but we wouldn't blame their race for that.

Yea. The Chinese lends money to African countries. Then, when we can't pay back, they take their money back in form of our natural resources.

Interesting ... this ancient cradle of humanity - also the stupidest locale on the globe.

PS: What is IQ of the Greenlanders? Why are they left out of the scores? Grey is such a dull color.

You think that is what is being taught in western school? You are terribly mistaken..
In school they teach white guilt and extreme PC culture at the expense of demonizing science..

https://www.rt.com/news/448732-james-watson-titles-revoked/

If this was based on white supremacy it would never be admitted that East Asians have higher average IQs than whites..
http://www.8asians.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/race-and-iq_bell_curve_shift.jpeg


And no white supremicist would ever admit that infact Ashkenazi Jews have the highest average IQ scores of all peoples..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence

So am I a Jewish supremacists or Asian supremacists?

How is genetic IQ science white supremacist if whites don't even win and are topped by asians and jews?
What that is is PC Slander.. (calling me a white supremacist)



Correct..
https://i.imgur.com/VXmNaBg.png
https://i.redd.it/a2td3vgych301.png
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_JmO-Uhj61U/maxresdefault.jpg





Correct.
Poorer whites "living in trailer parks" tend to have lower IQs than rich whites living in affluent neighborhoods.

This is not blaming any race for anything
Their are very high and very low IQ examples of people from all races. Their are plenty of very low IQ asians and high IQ blacks, but this is about averages
and the average IQ of a country correlates almost perfectly to the success of that country..



They are loan-sharking African countries and will control your entire country, not just take your oil..



https://www.arealme.com/iq/iq-map.png?1

This one shows Greenland.
It must have been omitted from the other one.

Not all datasets are exactly the same but they all show a very similar pattern..

https://catalanslliures.cat/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2-1.png


Denying the science is going to do nothing but keep Africa as poor as possible.
The only way you will ever find a solution to the poverty problem in Africa is if you recognize the true causes in order to develop a solution.


Go ahead and call me a Jewish supremacist if you can't handle the truth..  


Most importantly OP..
Stop blaming it on everyone else!

Training, to an extent.

Iodine deficiencies during childhood are a major cause of low IQ in Africa and the Middle East; also to an extent, genetics.

Eddie your first IQ graph is wrong.
The second one correct.



Main issue in Africa is not the IQ but the deep rooted culture of corruption.

This is a great article how africa changed.

https://goldenfront.ru/articles/view/white-american-tanzania/


Everyone trying to cheat everyone.

doesnt matter in my oppinion if the society gets developed africans will become smart as indians and could also be used for engineering stuff. instead of mining like dogs in the pits.

secondly it doesnt matter how smart you are, if you dont print the money you are selling your time

there are societies where the money printers are basically idiots, and low lives and just print money and have/expects others to be smart for them

     It's not about the region itself. It is about history, political system and perception of reality. These are past mistakes that are currently being perpetuated. This is a chain that can not be broken. It has been strongly solidified by corruption, exploitation and lying. You cannot say that Africa is poor. You can say that the resources are wrong managed. Obviously, there are indicators of resource mobilization capability and as you can see it is a circle. I strongly recommend the book that is called "Why Nations Fail" . The central idea binds the concept of vicious circle and virtuous circle, along with in-depth analysis.

Not only African nations experience this. Most of asian and south american nations too. And sadly, in many cases, the rapists are no other than our own governments.

The story is always the same. Everyone feels Africa is a third world continent. But that's not it. Africa shouldn't be viewed that way but sadly it is. No doubt Africa is one of the richly blessed continent just that, these resources  are mismanaged by our leaders. It's quite unfortunate. This is why I'm happy to embrace financial revolutions like Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies. Let's see what the future holds.

Anyway, Great to see a post about Africa right here on Bitcointalk  :)

True. But we are overpowered and being used simply because we allow them to. It is the masses that are putting people into their positions and seeing them rape the nation over and over again and yet we put the same kind of people again and again. People are afraid to fight for their own rights and they are fine getting drops from barrels of goodness which are supposed to be theirs.

This is the sad reality that continent like africa was being tagged as one of the poorest country in the world when the truth is this country is somewhat the one of richest in everything world needs,if people only knows how to value each resources for sure this cant be this same situation

Some countries in asia also has this tags but the truth is they are being raped by big countries who take over their places long time ago until now

Every African country has been colonised by at least one European country in the past ,and even after the indipendance the control still exists in form of treaties ,cultural and economic agreements , language and so on , for example Morocco still pays an anual feel to France ,lets them use coast for extensive fishing that kills local fishermen , forces the country to have french as a language of any form scientific studies , they even pushed us to add an exta hour to our local time (was GMT ,now uts GMT+1) for some economical reason. And here i am struggling to write this in English because i was forced to learn in french.

There's many reasons why Africa is in the state that it is and many of them have been mentioned in the thread. Take slavery for instance. Slavery did not start because white people were hunting for black men, putting them in chains and transporting to the US, the UK, and other countries. Most slaves were simply bought. THey were treated like property in their local villages and sold by the elders for alcohol, knives, and other things the white people were bringing.
The next question could be: why aren't they developing? If you go to Uganda or Nigeria you'll see that the people there aren't interested in education or building anything. They live a happy life drinking homemade alcohol, taking drugs and feasting together. While drunk they conceive children that later run around chasing chickens and goats all day and watching their parents get wasted. I can bet you that these countries aren't going to get anywhere in the next 50 years.

I also disagree with this notion that African are poor. I think Africa is rich though they cannot really enjoy that riches because of the greediness of their leaders that do sold they interest. If the leaders will have change of mind Africa will be the best place to be.

Yes I agree Africa is not poor as a continent, lots of countries in Africa are bless with natural resources, and also Africa is bless with an agarian climate an soil, corruption and bad political leadership is the rape Afric countries are going through, until there is a revolution this will keep happening.

so how did they actually reach those places in Africa which most don't even have internet connection? how was the IQ exam conducted again? and assuming this image is accurate as well as your statement which concludes  "Poverty is directly related to IQ", then why do high IQ countries lunch wars for Oil and natural resources? why send a dozen of people with high IQ to kill dozen of people with low IQ for Oil ?

not sure which IQ frequency i have to tune in to understand the logic   ;D

I think someone who has an average IQ score would figure this shit out by themselves  ::)

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now let me break it down  to you real simple.

Most African countries are still colonized, after WW2 the nature of colonization has changed, you do not need to have troops on ground, just control the government, create some opposition armed troops, create parallel armies and protect the government , grab them by the balls and take full control of resources, and should you lose control, launch a war against them in the name of war against terror/protection of civilians,mass destruction weapons and the list goes on.

There are many examples out there, the latest was Libya.

it was on a roll, Gadaffi decided to take full control and not supply Italy and some other countries with cheap/free gas and oil , he was also planning on building major harbors that would take a huge cut from the EU sea trade, as well as one of the largest airports in the region, these and many other reasons put EU in some competition danger, they tried to negotiate with him, he refused, they made up all sort of lies and B.S about him, "NATO flew 26,500 sorties" just to "protect innocent people who gaddafi suddenly after 42 years decided to kill  ::) " and you all know the rest of the story " i suppose ".

and they will do the same shit to every government that tries to take full control of it's country's resources, because they need those resources, IQ alone means NOTHING.

Libya has been going through a mess for the past 8 years, ISIS were all over the place, not a single gas/oil field was touched  ::)  almost everything has stopped at one point (hospitals, markets, airports ,etc,,) but not a single gas / oil pipe that delivers to EU or "sells" to U.S was touched.

use some simple logic, and you should be able to understand how things actually work, and trust me, they are usually way different from what your local news tell you.

I would not go to as far as the OP tho, yes we as people take a large chunk of responsibility , we can't deny it, but sure as hell it has nothing to do with us having  low IQ, it's more like the "High IQ countries" still occupy our lands.

I don't call Africa poor because Africa is more like of my country, Philippines. And in my country, we were also got raped by our leaders. My country is being surrounded with many forms of water, yet we still got water shortage on all places. My country has the finest land of all and you can plant rice on rice fields and you can get abundant harvest yet, we still need to import a lot of rice form different countries. My country has a lot of resources, yet we are not the miners of our own lands, it is always the foreigners. My country consists of 7000+ lands, yet we are not the businessmen of our own to produce works for my countrymen. Well, we still more like of your country. We're the same.

When the countries don't have skillful leaders and the current rulers won't care about their country's future and citizen are getting bribed in millions from those foregins countries to steal all those wealth from them.So choosing the right leader is the only to make countries better.

I think so as well. Though i think it's leaders are doing a very good job in suppressing the people and using africa's rich resources to keep themselves in power. The people there should be educated as well. It's been too long that africa is seen as the overly deprived country with dying children in the streets. They have the resources but their leaders doesn't seem to be interested in making this country better.

Africa is not poor.  Africans are.

To develop and manufacture new products you need scientists, engineers, IT guys, business managers.

What the "Blackpanther" movie portrayed was pure utopia.

What Africans can hope for is to go the Chinese route (attract foreign investment), but one crucial ingredient is missing: education.  Chinese communist education system is among the top education systems in the world.  Africans don't have a world-class education system, that is why they will never be able to compete on the world stage unless they tackle that issue first.

Lack of knowledge from the residents caused the foreign countries to take all the resource from their country and making them as poor even when they have lot of wealthy resources on their land.

Op has given a detailed description about Africa and its wealth which were taken by the foreign countries. Africa has got all wealth, but the lack of power in their hands and the caste issue has made them to be slaves. This has continued for a long, and when the people realized about the scenario everything has gone out of hands.

         https://i.imgur.com/nBUQ6N7.jpg

None of this means anything if the continent can't become more civilized than Western Sahara.

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Africa really has alot of solid mineral and great deposit of oils and gold but the citizens are the poorest around the world.  Africa is raped by the world power and most of the leaders has been bought up by the world power.  However,  I strongly believe that recovering and salvation is going to happen one day.

You really think communist china is spending billions of $ in the 3rd world out of good will and welfare?


No wonder the west is short before its downfall...


I guess time to immigrate east and accept the loss.

China benefited from the greed of Western corporations.  It was a mistake by Western governments to allow this shift of Western capital and infrastructure to China.  Militarily, a really stupid mistake.

Now we see the aftermath.  China is flexing its financial muscle all over the world, buying up resources, real-estate all around the world, from Africa to South and North America.

They don't give a flying puck about the long-term welfare of the subservient countries, whether it is Ecuador, Ghana or Canada.

They are investing heavily in the industrial sector in Africa.  Just like the West was investing in China since the late 1980s.

Do I think China cares about the welfare of Africans?  Probably they do care a bit.  Just like the slave masters 200 years ago did care about their slaves so that they do not die in large numbers.

Africans are the resource.
 

Of a truth Africa isint poor .
Take for example my country Nigeria.... Nigeria is a country bleesed with abundance of natural resources.
The challenge of Nigeria is the kind of leaders she is bleesed with.
Leaders with no vision for the country, leaders who are only interested in their pockets and those of their kitties, leaders who are unpatriotic to the cause of the nation, leaders who are so selfish and greedy that even the devil Marvel's at the level of their greed.
Nigeria is richer than so many developed countries  but bad leadership make it seem poor.

Erm ever heard of Japan? A resource-poor country with a feudal society that was FORCED to open up and trade with Westerners. Industrialized within a few decades, conquered pretty much most of East Asia and Southeast Asia, got nuked to defeat, still a big economy. Resources are not everything.

Also never forget that Africans sold each other as slaves to whites centuries before Europeans even thought of colonizing the continent. I believe every place is fucked up in its own special way but Africa IMHO is fucked up in more ways than others.

Anyway, stop babbling and catch up with Asia (which also happened to have suffered colonialism but is faring better by comparison).

The leaders in Africa are the main cause of the problems in the continent. Unlike politics in the western world, most of the leaders in Africa enter politics to enrich themselves to the detriment of the citizens. It is time for people with the right mindset to lead politics in Africa because the political leaders are the real people raping the continent.

Nigeria is officially a democratic country right? So who is responsible for picking the right leaders?

People should also need to be in long vision while picking the right leader when they want to be a better place in future.

See Japan on the charts I have posted..


then why don't they just go mine them instead of this? https://youtu.be/_dwvzXdy9PA

Have you seen this stuff yourself? How bad is it really in your direct experience?

Same with India. Just stop throwing stuff in your rivers already!
The people have to stop making such poor decisions, like polluting, for shortsighted reasons of convenience..

This stuff pisses me off a bit.
they ban straws in the US so they can't end up in the ocean, but africa and asia are the ones dumping everything in the oceans, ruining it for EVERYONE..
http://apeuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/GlobalProblem-Top10Sources-1.png
Knock it off!!
What is your experience with this in nigeria?

You can't even burn a regular woodstove in europe but africa and asia have fields of plastic on fire..

It must be a cultural difference..
Here, if some people out boating, hiking, swimming, fishing or hunting caught you throwing trash in a river I imagine you would be lucky to only have the police called on you and be thrown in jail. We would very much want to stomp their face but most of us are pretty civilized so their would be a half chance of that not happening..

Africa is just used to being on its knees , I also think that this continent is very rich in minerals, I think if the authorities were those leaders who could develop very much and sell for a lot of money they would be ahead of Europe many times , In Russia, this situation is due to the fact that the dictatorship in power , and a lot of corruption, the country is very far behind

Corruption is already on its core, a newly elected president like Duterte has to make drastic move to eradicate the corrupted officials and probably kill who ever deserves to. Africa is a black men's country, if you are a white man I think you really aren't from that country. You're great grand pop migrate there hence white men are there too. Am I wrong with this?

the problem in africa is that manufacturers, are outside of africa and they are in minority and have no access to capital.

Africa blame other continent for their predicament failing to understand that the problem of Africa is an internal problem they blame the white for colonizations but failing to understand that the real colonization is they mental slavery mentality couple with lack of good leaders and follower's.

i think that's happen in my country too, indonesia.
in indonesia, we've lot of natural resource but most of our natural resources being "raped" by foreign mining companies.

Saw a recent post saying Africans are been help too much well I don't think so, instead what I see is the so called helpers taking advantage of the continent Africa all in the name of helping them. When you want to help someone you teach them how to fish not by giving them fish. These nations help with their right hand and take away more with their left hand, you call that help?

Africa need the help of the developed countries to survive in every aspects, take for example some of the African countries after gaining independent go straight into civil war what is the cause of this, the answer is simple greedy leaders who know nothing to how to steal government found without providing the necessary infrastructure that will enable development.

you are basically calling us Africans a bunch of monkeys who cant live on their own ? thats some bs all what the devolped counries did was make africa suffer. it would have been much better without what they are calling 'help'.

I have a friend in Ethiopia. He and his family have been living there for more than 10 years, now. Ethiopia alone has, like, 70 different tribal nations within it. And a whole bunch of them are against the others.

Another friend has been there (Africa) with his big guns. He favors Central African Republic, or Mozambique, because he and his buddies have the guns... although that is changing somewhat.

When you get a few shrewd African leaders who have brains, they make a whole bunch of money helping other nations to African wealth, often slave wealth.

Check out "Tippu Tip, or Tippu Tib (1832 – June 14, 1905), real name Hamad bin Muhammad bin Juma bin Rajab el Murjebi... " - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tippu_Tip. Africa has a wealth of stupidity that won't allow them to unite against the rest of the world.

Clive Cussler wrote a novel, Sahara, that shows you what it is all about. Check out the movie at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318649/.

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EDIT: And check out Western Sahara, a country that is so dumb that they can't even form their own nation. Morocco is gradually taking it over. But Mauritania, who said they withdrew their claims decades ago, is moving back along the SouthWest border of WS. And even Algeria wants a piece of the action, although they won't say it formally. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Sahara.

EDIT 2: The life of Tippu Tib - https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028752644/cu31924028752644_djvu.txt.

One way to see if a place is "poor" or "rich" is to see how well they have preserved their most valuable things.  If a people are poor, they have to sell the family heirlooms.  The most valuable things on the planet are:  the arable land, the healthy rivers and ecosystems, the biodiversity.  These are without a doubt the gems which are not a fad but are irreplaceable.  Some places on the earth have turned themselves into deserts such as the midwest USA, deforested, killed the river dolphins, etc,  different problems all over.  Looking at the map, it appears that much of Africa has had the wherewithal to not destroy itself with industrialization and suburbatardation.  In this regard, I see the African continent as perhaps the wealthiest on the planet. 

This is good. Why? Because most of the Africans aren't interested in advancing to the status of humanitarian, where they progress to using African resources for themselves.

Somebody should use the natural resources. If Africans won't, why just let the resources sit there? Rather, let someone else develop them.

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They let other government decide for their future so they decide to rape them. What African countries need are people who has nationalism and has compassion to its people but has the political will of the Xi Jin Ping.  Right now they flood the people with democracy being good but what does it do if without boundaries?  The Chinese are already starting to help these nations though, these are the good guys. They are not going to kill your presidents.

Given the state of the continent it's probably a good indicator of mismanagement and political corruption.

That is to confirm that African continent is rich but the major problem that has led to her underdevelopment is foreign countries coming to reap where they have not plants anything in the of they are  coming to help her.

I think that the West doesn't call Africa poor as a continent but as each and every economy on this continent.
African Soil is full of rich elements which can provide a lot of money to countries. It is about their leaders who want to keep their citizens poor. If you want a change you have to change and reform your whole society.

Africa is certainly the most exploited continent. I do think it is also the poorest continent, but this is because Western nations have exploited Africa remorselessly for hundreds of years. Africa certainly has huge natural resources, and would be much wealthier were it not for Western interference.

A bit of a tangent, but Africa does suffer from geography to an extent. There is a question as to why in the past Africa has struggled to develop as quickly as other nations. I think this is due to the fact that the river system is not easily navigable. Particularly compared to say the USA, which has easy river navigation throughout the country. Africa's major rivers on the other hand have frequent disruption from waterfalls and rapids, which significantly hampers trade and development. Apologies if I'm veering off-topic slightly, but I think this is an important point historically.

You said right, Africa is not poor, we visited your country last year, it was fun.

https://zizihub.com/21a0.jpg

With abundant natural resources, but unfortunately Africa has been plagued by prolonged hostility to this day, I am very worried that the people there cannot enjoy so many natural products.

https://zizihub.com/4661.jpg

With very fertile soil conditions and abundant agricultural products such as: corn, coffee, beans, Ethiopia and many others.
Such as: chrome, gas, oil, gold, platinum, tin etc.
This is a sign that the African continent is indeed a super natural continent of its wealth.

https://zizihub.com/419f.jpg

I am personally proud of the kind and friendly African community.

I hope that hostilities in Africa are fleeting and people can live in peace and peace.

Greetings Africa. Peace.

Africa, oh Africa. So historical, and many stories are not told properly I suppose. Much blood has been spilled trying to attain that goal. As it is, yes, it is not poor - it is poor because it cannot hold itself together. Like the other post mentioned, its African killing fellow African because they're from another tribe. Its African killing fellow African to get what big corporations are offering them - less than 1% of what they really should own. All the violence, all the pain, and all the turmoil it is experiencing has not ended because of so many things.

People are generally acting like the past Kings of Wakanda - which is fictional mind you. These are your warlords, fighting against each other - extracting the resources to buy weapons and they're all playing the colonizers game of buying the weapons of the military-industrial complex. Blood Diamonds, blood gold, blood oil - you name it.

Yes, Africa is not poor because of a lack of resource. Africa is poor because it is not united in peace.

Well documentaries is somehow our inner voice or eyes on some country we cant go into for example is the north korea right so we cant say
that africa isnt poor i think the right word is africa has been isolated because of some things we cannot see for example again is the electricity and such.

That`s why you never relay on one documentary, on one source of information. If you are interested in something you need to check it from more sides. Think critically and question everything.


So western nations are rapping Africa for hundreds of years?

I would like to hear the names of this western nations that are rapping continents and countries. Anybody knows who are the bullies, or they are nameless?

Nah, they just need to get their shit together and you know, stop falling for people that rob them blind.

I would also say that private individuals should stop sending aid. That should force corrupt governments to actually do something for their people else risk getting toppled. These "donations" are also killing whatever native industry managed to spring up. Imagine being a shoe manufacturer and then all of a sudden free shoes are coming in from abroad...

I believe that the main issue here is not about Africa being raped but who is raping Africa or is it just a 'false wolf cry'?. Rightly said, Africa is undoubtedly a rich continent, however we the Africans have refused to liberate or minds from poverty and the choice of bad leaders who are constantly destroying the justice system to be able to bring satiety to their insatiable desire sat the expense of the progress of the continent. And the sad part is how we the masses still put them back in power to rule. 'So who is raping who'?

Africa is blessed with riches and resources that is enough to make the citizen never taste a day of hunger for life,  the problem of African handling the riches converting it into wealth for everyone is the first problem, the government in most African countries are such greedy that the amass wealth for themselves and their family, there is a saying the if you want to hide a secret from the Africans keep it in a book, Africans are so endowed with intelligence now that most people end up using it in another continent since it is not well appreciated and valued.

I don't think that if Individuals stop sending aid to Africa, governments are going to act.
They will keep killing people without any purpose. Because giving aid to them would cost them money which now go to their pockets.

For decades, the dominant image of Africa has been that it is poor and helpless. This image is wrong. i blame the documentaries that has been recorded over the years that has tainted our image for a long time. We have enough of everything to go round.

Africa isn't poor. Africa is being developed. While there are many intelligent Africans, many are too ignorant to even understand the benefits of development. The development of Africa is bring many ignorant Africans into a better state of living. It's simply taking a while.

Don't tell me that the black slaves of the whites, that were brought to America were ultimately not in a better position in the US. Look at where their descendants are. Some of them are in Government. And it is similar in the UK.

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jes then all should simply stop trading with africa, let the africans sell their crap to each other, lets mine in arctic and russia, so africans finally start to blame themselves.
africans are constantly pissed off and blaming and demonising everyone else.

Especially the big bad white man that comes and takes. They don't remember that white man also builds and gives but they don't respect what is given to them.
They get hospitals, they steal from them. They get schools they burn them. All because of their stupid pride that white man's shit is bad and they will make their own. And then they get dictators who make slaves out of them and murder them and white man has to intervene to make them free again.

Do you know why black men were made slaves in the first place? Because they had mental characteristics of a slave. They cared only about their basic needs like food and shelter and once someone provided that they would work without a complaint.

You guys only turn us against ourselves, you claim to be helping when all you do it take from us. In my local area the land, rivers and air have all been pollution by the big shell companies drilling oil from the soil. We're migrating to the cities which aren't safe per se just to avoid getting poison by the unpleasant environment the foreign companies have brought into our villages.

Did a thread recently titled: The Xenophobic attacks on Africans by South Africans, what's your take on this. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5182484.0) technically this is the same situation happening in most part of Africa although the South Africa thought theirs too far. Africans are turning against themselves since they can't compete with the white in demanding their rights. We're open for development but do that rightfully and not enslave us in our own land, that's a slap to our face.

you'll never understand what they feel, with all the things that they have been through because of "the big bad white man's" greed it is expected from them
to build hatred towards white people and I don't blame them.

Maybe we should all live in the past? The Chinese should never achieve anything because they were once abused by the Japanese, the Japanese should keep hating the Americans and half of Europe should hate the Germans. No wonder Africa can't achieve anything with such mindset.
So many countries were destroyed in the 2nd world war and managed to move on and rebuild. Africa was never hit as hard as countries like France, Poland, or the UK.

its called trade, you sell ressources, from your mines that have already been build so you can buy foreign stuff.
if you would still be a colony then europeans would actually invest into africa.

besides. you wouldnt be able to build an industry without european langauges. the problem is that without colonialism there would be more langauges in africa than in india.
and even india is only capable developing because it was once a colony. india is developing according to english langauge. without it it wouldnt be able to be unified.

if mining ressources doesnt make africans rich then simply try burning off your wilderness and build agricultre farms there so africa one day becomes 10 billion people, what can go wrong?

I agree, Africa has vast natural resources too. Exploitation by foreigners,invaders? ,corruption,greed,mismanagement makes them suffer. They should elect an honest,incorruptible  and upright leader who has compassion to the poor.A leader who can inspire his people.

Because of mismanagement and corruption, it leads to detrimental conditions of majority. Poverty and hunger should be address extensively.Education should be prioritized too, an educated  citizen will help their nation  rise to prosperity.

I agree with you if the African continent is managed well there will be no starving people.
only people in the government who enjoy the blessed natural products on the African continent.

Africa is not only rich in minerals and other resources but the people are also very warm which is also another form of wealth. Leaving that alone, the moment Africa realizes it's potential and first learns to trade within herself, the growth will be unstoppable.

The word poor or poverty is used to describe the state of mind of someone or a group of people. In as much that the continent Africa has all this resources, once you don't the necessary mind set and knowledge on how to utilize the resources, you are poor in the aspect of knowledge to utilize the resources. The continent Africa has an assumption that it needs the help of others in order to survive. 

those foreign companies where asked by your "leaders" and "warlords" to drill there for natural ressources so they can afford infrastructure to feed their lazy poplation, who didnt't wanted to work in the imperial european agriculture structures.

Perhaps,  African nation ain't poor,  but the government in those countries are making the citizens to be poor due to selfishness and greediness,  I read an article online about how lots of African countries are blessed with natural resources,  just that they lack good leaders in maintaining their resources

Obviously it has very little to do with the OP, but one thing we can all agree on: IQ is a score on a test, for which the average score receives the IQ score of 100.  Also without a doubt is that practice increases test scores, and that different tests yield different scores.  How useful such indicators might be for a given discussion is unclear.  Generally speaking, we can be clear that those who wish to put fancy labels on test scores and use them out of context disregarding these basic facts are also likely to score poorly on such tests. 

In some cases people from different geographic locations have on average practiced different skills more than others, and sometimes people with different physical features have on average practiced different skills more than others.  Perhaps an interesting statistic, but what are the conclusions?  There are very few conclusions to be drawn here.  Individuals still certainly need to be tested separately from one another for any skill you might wish to test, as it is also beyond dispute that any statistical average from a geographical location or physical attribute can most definitely not be used to determine the score of a given individual on a test. 



       

Africa has so many natural resources that it should be exploited by local populations

they actually do that, and those that do it the best prevent other parts of it from doing so called "Illegal mining"
so only the big boys can sell natural ressources to the industrialised world.

africans also fuck up each other equally

just because their natural ressources have low value compared to european industrial expertise, doesnt mean european are evil, they also have a system to maintain.

besides it was the africans themselves that stopped their colonization and economic development.

not really africa could easily be replaced for europe and france with russia/eurasia

it is french mercy to keep its worthless damaging and destructive colonies, which prevents europeans to chaning its mineral sources.

well lets just stop trading with africans them, let them enslave and kill each other, and send zergs over the sahara desert to the arabs.

Because Africans are poor they're raped more The influence of the dominant people in society is high on them. they're subjected to exploitation and torture in some ways. the most reason for this is often because their government system is weak.

You are right that their government system is weak The common people are deprived of all the facilities and are left poor because they are giving their country wealth to another country. Very sorry for Africa They are deprived of social benefits.

I think most countries in Africa's best bet is to petition to be annexed by the USA, so we can get some real government and organization over your heads to help you succeed..
Not too dissimilar to times of colonization.. Do you want to move into the 21st century or not?

China will do nothing but try to rape you.. The west does actually care about you.. I care about you..

Any of you still think western colonization was negative for you?? Nah imo...

We can help you build roads and infrastructure, be productive, harness those resources, and evolve..

Beware of china.. They will skin you alive in boiling water like a dog..