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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (31726)	4/18/2003 12:19:35 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

KC, there is nothing. Absolutely nothing, a westerners can do to improve the conditions of Sub-Sahel Africa. It was tried: 1) Colonization by slowly making African better. 2) Independency by given them self-rule. The whole western hemisphere from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, was colonized and became a civilization. (I am leaving aside the human costs, since I can't judge what was done in the 16th century under today's social standards). Don't think I'm anti anything. Only Nigeria has a bigger balck population than Brazil, but we create a civilization out of that. I am not implying that it is a bed roses down there but it working in a civilized manner. There is things that we can't change. Only time. Long time will solve the problem. Let the Africans live their dark age as the white man lived theirs.

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (31726)	4/18/2003 12:53:05 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

No it is not flippant. I know it is very simple issue. But viewed from the perspective of people who haven't been involved, witnessed the brutality, the suffering and the wasted lives, it appears flippant and appears complex. I poundered for years how could we change the lives of thje balckman for the better: It is very very very easy to solve the problem. (Excerpt from my book) The evidence of the harm of the display of nationhood caused by the newly independent African countries is the fact that Africans are today poorer than 30 years ago. The African has to have contact with a foreigner who is neither the colonial master or the expatriate brought in by a contractor or by the multinational corporation. Those have been just passing by and experience show that they have left almost nothing behind. Aid institutions which bring to Low Developing Countries (LDCs) a young inexperienced from a developed country isn’t of much help. What is needed is the old experienced people. The retired American firemen went to Brazil to share his experience with the Brazilians after attention of the Americans was called because of two big fire in buildings. The retired power equipment specialist from Canada went there to teach Brazilians when Brazilian Traction owned a power utility. Nowadays the retired power equipment or telecoms specialist goes to Angola to share their experiences with the Angolans. Nigeria needs some Israeli specialist to produce fruits in an arid environment but keep importing syrup to make soft drinks. It needs the Brazilian cotton specialist to exploit cotton plantation in Northern Nigeria but keep a lot of money is spent in the a transplanted California such as the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture—IITA. Classified ads offering positions for the IITA in Ibadan, Nigeria, offer such benefits includes: “...housing, personal car, assisted education, annual home leave travel, health services and non-contributory pension scheme. The institute’s headquarters, research facilities, residential and recreational areas are situated on an attractive 1.000 hectare campus outside Ibadan.” Lately they stopped mentioning in the ads the private golf course at the headquarter of IITA. All that to “...raise productivity and income of small-scale farmers.” Ad in The Economist.