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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?
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To: TimF who wrote (679)12/27/2006 10:05:29 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 1267
 
They might be small in number (at least in major positions of influence in the west) but there are plenty that ignore, justify and/or support lesser crimes and lesser stupidities.

Then their importance to western policy to Africa is somewhere between microscopic and irrelevant. How can they be a key focus for the problem?

They aren't. They are an easy straw man to knock down in a letter to the editor. Then assert that all the imperfect things in Africa should be perfect as a general principle, and you have set the moral stage for....

...more moralizing. Africa laughs that crap off decade after decade. It's a western parlor room indulgence until you actually construct schemes to get Africans to buy into it.

But that would involve those messy details that probably aren't covered at law school. How is it that African development became a subject of expertise for a law professor anyway?
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