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To: shades who wrote (66740)7/30/2005 10:37:45 PM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
"if your company said we are going to give you big bonus and pay raise and early retirement and 20 virgins if you got to africa will you say no...?"

The 20 should not be virgins because I'd be too busy teaching unexprienced people to do productive work to be able to teach them. LOL!

I am veteran of 8 and hald years i Nigeria in the 80s. Returned there last year for 6 months more.

The problem there is -as always- not the people, but the regimes they have. This idiotic thing they did after WW II -called independence- was a bad mistake.

The guy who makes things happens in those God forsaken places I work, should be able to get to know what's wrong with the place and its people in the next 6 weeks after arrival.



To: shades who wrote (66740)7/31/2005 2:09:54 AM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 74559
 
"When aid money keeps coming, all our policy-makers do is strategize on how to get more," said the Kenya-based director of the Inter Region Economic Network, an African think tank.

"They forget about getting their own people working to solve these very basic problems. In Africa, we look to outsiders to solve our problems, making the victim not take responsibility to change."

Economist blames aid for Africa famine
businessweek.com