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To: longnshort who wrote (577767)7/24/2010 7:10:28 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572295
 
If that were BP or Exxon shipping crap to Middle America, you wouldn't find a thing wrong with it...



To: longnshort who wrote (577767)7/26/2010 4:58:18 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Respond to of 1572295
 
Re: nice guys you Europeans, shipping sludge to the lands of the brown people

An insignificant --if unfortunate-- blip on Africa's millennial journey through History... It's obvious that, in twenty years from now, historians and Africanologists will view the current period as a transitory era --a crossover span between "white colonialism" and "yellow takeover". The 40-year-long span between 1960 and 2000 will go down in African History as a period of flux and turmoil... Four decades where most of Africa has been left to its own devices, following the departure of the Whites (decolonization), and before the massive arrival of the Chinese:

chinafrique.com

Great pictures by photographer Paolo Woods (whose pictures illustrate the book "Chinafrique"):

paolowoods.net

(picture #1015 shows a cute Afro-Chinese child)