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Re: Should we just leave Africa alone?
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Uploaded on 11/18/2007

Description: We should invest in Africa's nascent industries.

Transcript: I think we should be doing business with them.  I don’t believe in aid because it has been proven for the last 50 years that it doesn’t work.  But trade.  Invest in Africa.  Let Africans change their own destiny.  I lived in Kenya for a long time, and when a mass uprising expressed in the form of demonstrations comes about against the government, the government then violently puts that down.  Now a number of the Africans that I spoke to and knew at the time would say if Daniel Radmore did not have all this money that he is getting from Britain and other western countries in aid, he would not be able to buy the weapons to crash us.  But in many African countries, because of aid, the authoritarian figures there can afford to get the weapons and the money to oppress their own people.  That’s an issue that aid workers simply don’t want to deal with, and I think it’s a shame.

Recorded on: 8/15/07

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Re: Re: Should we just leave Africa alone?

the majority of the problem with africa is not the africans. it has been a historically proven that while outside intervention in some cultures on certain levels can be quite helpful(medicine, and the like), elements like resource theft, and funding weapon development in cultures that are barely able to maintain their borders from their direct neighbors always ends in grave disaster for those cultures.

the theft of africa's natural resources, diamonds and amethyst, has kept those regions in constant turmoil just to be able to totally control said resources. no one, to this point, has tried to take a genuine stand against the diamond industry directly. embargo on, not just in the u. s., but a world wide ban on trafficking in diamonds.

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We should not give up on Africa.  We can assist people by micro-lending.  We can also help Africans by not turning a blind eye to repressive regimes.  We should also deal fairly with Africa when it comes to using their natural resources. 
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