DEAR CAMEO JOEY

THE TROUBLE WITH AFRICA

A Political Dialogue Between Cameo Joey an American intellectual and Orikinla Osinachi an African Writer in May 2005.
This discussion has been published on line on the Current Affairs Board in the open forum of www.ukraine.com
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Hi,The trouble with Africa is such a long list that I cannot start to explain it, but I will speak on some of the critical issues of what is happening.Last year in Moscow, Russia, 40 or so students were executed by a fire disaster in a dormitory that was set ablaze and locked as to not let the African students escape. The action was a murder of innocent students who were considered the cream of the crop from Africa. Maybe they were the ones with money rather than the cream? The dormitory was nothing special and some Russians did not like the cream of the crop. It seems the conditions were not too good anyway, but the fire was arson and it was murder.
Africans are warned to beware in the subways after dark, as they could be stabbed, robbed, etc. what are the problems in Africa? Too many to list.Africa has not contributed much to humanity as history and text will show. Not many if any inventions. Little or no donations to other countries of the world. Millions of deaths caused by AIDS, which cost the civilized world billions of dollars.

Africa does not provide or contribute to the world in hardly any area.We read about Africa and it's problems. We read about Africa and the lack of progress. We read about how Africa needs your money. Africa needs money, but nothing is ever achieved by giving Africa money.
The French have ruled many parts of Africa for years. The Belgians have ruled Africa too. You can name many countries that have run Africa and you can see Europeans ran the slave trade with permission of the Africans. What other countries do you see selling their people with no regard in history as Africa has done?What does the future hold for Africa? Lots more of the same as history shows us is what Africa has to look for. List me the nations in Africa who have good or even almost good economies, health standards, clean prisons or hospitals, etc. Okay, just see if you can start a list and if you can, are those places created by Africans and is the money coming from Africa?

Africa has failed for hundreds of years and I dare say nothing will change, because as long as corruption and (NO UNITY) for any and every cause exists, then the same things will take place.Maybe Osi can blame America for the failures of Africans but anyone with half a brain will understand Africa is a failure because of Africans.

Camster.


Cameo Joey,

You are wrong to say Africa has not contributed to the advancement of human civilization when Africa is in fact the cradle of human civilization. The Nubians ruled ancient Egypt for centuries and developed the foundation of Mathematics and Sciences.

In fact, researches have confirmed that we taught the ancient Greek scholars.Lest, I bore you with the typical Osinachi's fables, simply log on http://www.emeagwali.com, the web site of the intelligentsia of the African Genius.Dr. Philip Emeagwali is the super genius of the Internet and Dr. Oyibo has solved the Unified Law of Relativity discovered by Albert Einstein. Dr. Oyibo is being nominated for the Nobel Prize.Both geniuses are from Nigeria. And Prof. Bart Nnaji who is one of the top seven masters of Robotics in the world is also a Nigerian.There is also Dr. Bankole Olowofoyeku who is a computer genius about to launch a new revolutionary operating system.We have our own totally made in Nigeria Computer called ZINOX.The names will make a long list.Just log on http://www.emeagwali.com and read about all our achievements and contributions to the advancement of modern civilization.I don't want to mention Literature where we have won over four NOBEL PRIZES since 1986 when my elder compatriot Prof. Wole Soyinka won it first and my contemporary writer Ben Okri who has won the BOOKER PRIZE in the UK will win another NOBEL PRIZE in literature in the future. No matter what Petro, SRD and clique think, if God keeps me alive for four more decades, I will most likely win the NOBEL PRIZE in Literature. I have eight novels, ten volumes of plays and four anthologies and TOLSTOI has inspired me since my first book was published in 1987. And the book "Children of Heaven" has become a classic. We have great inventions you are ignorant of.

Not Much

Hi,

The cradle of civilization is no more and to deal with the dynamics of how humans evolved would be interesting if we had all the answers.You listed four Nobel Laureates, but if you check the records that would make about one percent of the awards given. In regards to INVENTIONS you will find that out of 270 major ones, the Americans have about 60% or 70% with the English and other Europeans rounding out the rest.There are a few things you could mention, but not so many, my friend and that are just the simple truth.As far as geniuses go, it's not hard to find them all over the world. The difference in the genius is not what makes the contribution but rather the WORK.So the Dutch colonized Africa along with the English, French, Belgians and a host of others? Right?

After the civilization took place, then what have the Africans done with it? Can you show me a good economy? I can show Nigeria as a great oil producer who pays its workers no money other than less than minimum wage and few people take the rest. With all the dollars involved in that country, it remains poverty stricken and a terrible mess.As usual Africa begs for money while they have money. African governments squander anything and everything they have or are given and in the name of hope and a future they turn to me and ask for my donations for hungry children. At the same time they have more oil than TEXAS and more poverty than the poorest countries of South America. Can you explain the logical and stupidity involved here? I can explain it and the problem always falls to culture, greed, brutality, stupidity, and ignorance.Top

Dollar

When a country comes into Nigeria and goes fishing as you put it, it means they are doing business right? They are doing legal business and paying good money for the oil right?
What Nigeria does with the money is Nigeria's problem as it seems and the poor situation cannot be blamed on any western country because they are paying the going rate for the oil. These western countries do not have ANYTHING to do with how the money is paid to workers right? These western countries are just buying a product. It's the same old problem where the failures of a people with ample monies and business cannot give the average citizen anything in return other than a few dollars per hour.

I doubt you want the UN to come in and tell Nigeria to be fair? I doubt you want western countries to point out the problem? This would be just another excuse to blame America, Britain, France, and a host of other countries for your own failures. Have you ever wondered why the western countries don't want to deal with Africa on a large scale? It's because the corruption, murder, riots, etc. This is something you can try to blame on America but it will never work and only aid the corruption level that already exists.


Dear Cameo Joey,

As I noted earlier that your analysis of the trouble with Africa was factual and I actually passed on your points of view to the appropriate authorities that often think I am over-critical of the government whenever I make the same observations.

I will not want to totally say the advanced countries are not guilty of the problems in Africa. They have been very much involved in the governance of the peoples of Africa directly or indirectly through their proxies.

The Western Conspiracy cannot be dismissed. As Dr. Matthias Rath noted in his critical document I have called the MATTHIAS RATH REPORT reported as "THE UNITED NATIONS COMMITTED SUICIDE" on my web site, http://www.nigeriantimes.bravehost.com. There is an economic and political manipulation and exploitation of Africa. And I can attest to this fact, because I have been engaged in projects done by the USAID and the UNICEF in Nigeria.

Most of the programs sponsored are only meant for Social Marketing of Western Products and Services. For example, the so called HIV/AIDS Aid to Africa is to export shipments of HIV/AIDS Drugs and Condoms to Africa to be paid for in the long run and the so called "Roll Back Malaria" program is meant to export anti-malaria drugs manufactured in America and Western Europe to African countries.

The World Bank and IMF give us loans to be used for projects contracted to American and Western European multinational companies.

For example, I live in the NIGERIA LNG Estate that has been rated as the most developed town in West Africa. But outside the town is an underdeveloped Bonny town. The multinational oil and gas companies could have developed the remaining parts of Bonny Island, but they only built the estate to their taste, because they are going to live there. The places the Americans and Europeans live in Africa are as good as anywhere in America and Europe. And their African cronies live there with them, while the rest of the millions of the poor majority live in the ghettoes all around them.

They want to perpetuate the poverty, because the poor masses provide them the cheap labour they need, such as drivers, messengers, office assistants, houseboys and house girls and other forms of servile labour. Our Police and Army barracks look like Concentration Camps in the USSR. You can see up to 100 people sharing two toilets in a block of single rooms in Police barracks in Nigeria.

I know a Nigerian soldier who was recruited when he was an unmarried man and his single room accommodation has not changed since he got married and started to raise his family. My friend George who is from the Niger Delta has been living in the same single room since 1995 when he was still single to date that he is now married with five children. And his status has not improved and the government has not factored the need to have different accommodations for young officers with wives and children, regardless of their rank and file.

How can police officers with a family of six live in a single room for 10 years?

The UN has many agencies claiming responsibilities for social welfare services they don't render in Africa. More millions of dollars are spent on workshops in five star hotels and accommodating UN Staff in posh houses in reserved areas than the amount spent on the medical services provided for the deprived children and women they often advertise on public billboards and on CNN as the beneficiaries of the billions of dollars American and European countries have donated. But as a former UNICEF Consultant and also a consultant for the USAID, I know how they wasted millions of the billions of dollars in Africa. In 1988, when I was a UNICEF Consultant, I was accommodated in a double suite in a five star hotel in Nigeria. And I asked what do I need a double suite for? Just for only me? So, I had the luxury of jumping from one bed to the other and there was also room service at my beck and call. What the UNICEF spent to pay my bills in one week could have provided a borehole for water supply for a village of 200 Hausas in Maiduguri, Nigeria.

The UN and US and allies are collaborators and accomplices in the economic and political exploitation of Africa.

We want to change all the corrupt leaders and rulers in Africa by peace or by force.

If they won't repent, they will perish.

I am ready to sacrifice my life for the revolution that will bring about the transformation of my people for our common good.

The days of reckoning are coming.
Yes, they are around the corner.

The die is cast.

May God help us?