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July 09, 2005
Is Africa A Victim Of Pity?
Dr. John Kabayo, coordinator of the Pan African Tsetse & Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign at the AU Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, states in a July 7, 2005 article in New Vision of Kampala, Uganda, that:Africa has been like a patient, with different experts peering down her throat, offering to diagnose her condition and prescribe yet another cure. When, finally, over the years the patient does not seem to be getting any better, the experts have began to blame it on the inherent inability of the patient. Some critics view the continent as a victim of external forces, citing slavery, imperialism, exploitative trading practices, a distorted geopolitical world economy and, above all, the damage resulting from centuries of systematic exploitation of Africa's resources and unrelenting undermining of her self-confidence.
Dr. Kabayo said, "Others blame Africa's ecological conditions, its hot tropical climate and the diseases that thrive there, arguing that the natural forces of tropical ecology are against us and influence our development."
See "Africa: Victim of Pity?" for more of his commentary.
Posted by Munir Umrani at July 9, 2005 12:32 AM
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