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FOREIGN AID IS THE NUMBER ONE ENEMY IN AFRICA

Do you think Africa is fighting the right enemy? Do you still support foreign aid for Africa? Just ask yourself few questions: What kind of foreign aid did European countries receive during industrial revolution? What kind of strangers were there to help European settlers build the great North America? Who was there to guide Arabs and Asians sail through the giant Indian ocean to Africa? The answer is simple; none. If all these strangers could do it themselves, then Africa should also be given a chance to do it herself. Foreign aid has damaged Africa than it has helped her. Foreigners are killing African minds and initiatives by trying to do everything for them. The worst part is when foreigners give Africans money as aid, then few days later, they take their money back in form of African leaders personal-bank-deposits.... [More>]

OUR COMMON HUMANITY

Psychologist Carl Jung once said that, a great deal of institutional religion seems designed to prevent faithful from having a spritual experience. Indeed, instead of teaching people how to live in peace, today, religious leaders often concentrate only on marginal issues like: Is contraception permissible? Is evolution compatible with the first chapter of Genesis? Can a non-christian be elected to the offfice? Can a liberal be appointed to the Supreme Court? Instead of bringing people together, these distracting preoccupations actually encourage policies of exclusion, since they tend to draw attention to the differences between "us" and "them". These policies of exclusion can have dramatic conseguences.Most notably they have given rise to the militant piety that we call fundamentalism,which erupted in every major world religion during the 20th century...[more>]

HUMANISM: AFRICA'S NEXT CHAPTER..?

It is well known that the term “capitalism” has been widely used by Europeans and Americans to describe their respective economic systems while the term “socialism” was widely used by Russia and eastern Europe countries to describe their economic sytems respectively. In between, there have been different kinds of terms used by different countries to describe and define their social and economical sytems. All in All, societies either collectively or individually have been trying hard to allocate scarce resources among alternative unlimited uses. I don't want to rewrite the history, nor would I ever change the past. I am all concerned with what happened to  “Those who cant decide for themselve, we have to tell them what to do-countries." I am talking about Africa here, my poor Africa...[More>]

 

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