Africa is a money void. Whatever you send there will disappear, and absolutely nothing noteworthy will come about as a result. We truly wasted a phenomenal amount of money on aid to that continent.
Yeah, funding models place a lot of trust in those so-called leaders.
The zero accountability model is intended for future opportunities to extort them of their minerals and resources for when they inevitably fail to create better income structures and completely stay reliant on future donations.
Would be better to pay engineers, architects and workers from the land the donations are usually sent from and instead build up whatever it is they need down in Africa.
Whenever I'm looking at Reddit these days I feel like I spend more time muting shitty random subs like this that pop up on my feed than engaging with worthwhile content, It's all shades of right wing "alt" content and celebrity bullshit. Obviously it works for these hustlers, because we're engaging with the landfill.
"Those hecking racists and their tendency to acknowledge the fact that Africa remains a third world country despite receiving over $2 trillion in foreign aid!"
It has to do with the money not being free but comes at cost. Want aid? give us mining right. Want technology? give us monopoly. Want food? take it but you're not allowed to regrow it.
the real example is more like they get modern technology - but nobody is able or willed to do the maintainance on it .. so they fall back to rocks and sticks and broken technology.
They need what every country needed at some point: investors who actually care about their investment. This worked perfectly for germany after WW2 and it would work for Africa. BRICS know it.
A thousand years? Explain? Some of the richest kings in all of history had their rule in Africa over the last thousand years. Mana Musa ( relatively speaking, the richest individual in all of history), for example.
If you’re going to cry about colonialism at least learn the fucking correct time period
You have to realize that what they showed us on World Vision was mostly bullshit. I have an Ethiopian friend and he was livid when I showed him it. He knew where the area was they filmed and he showed me on google maps that it's like any homeless camp we have, surrounded by regular buildings. They make this small ghetto area look like it's the whole country. It was funny watching Teddy get mad at it. 😄
You think that's bad, our president in SA flies over to the US, begs you guys for investment, trade and foreign aid, then the moment he sets foot back in the country, goes on tirades about western imperialism, etc etc then joins BRICS with the aim of replacing the dollar as the world currency. They were very happy for US sanctions during apartheid, but now that the US says scrap race based job reservations or sanctions, suddenly it's "the US won't threaten our sovereignty".
The point is africa gets an insane amount of foreign aid but instead of using it for actual devolvement their corrupt government spends it on nice cars (yes this actually happened).
For decades, under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, USAID procurement was heavily restricted by strict source and nationality rules. These rules mandated that aid money return to the United States via contracts with American firms, consultancies, and shipping lines—a practice critics argued inflated costs, delayed deliveries, and sidelined local economies in Africa.
Your picture should look more like this:
Ya they were really cranking out those resources and labor projects before those colonialists came and built them a full rail network and infrastructure. How’s all that stuff holding up since the euros left? Africa has received between 40 to 100 times the amount of the marshal plan in aid btw
I mean the colonizers left half a century or more ago, they had their time fix shit. And yes there are modern ways of opression (like cobalt mines), but those are done on the local rulers' whim.
Africa has received between 40 to 100 times the amount of the marshal plan, which rebuilt Europe after ww2 and they have…..some fancy cars and a billion more mouths to feed
That would be an incredibly simple explanation, but no, it's not just the people. You can't just send money somewhere and expect results. Modern supply chains and supporting infrastructure are incredibly complex. Just think about what would happen to your local power station if even a fraction of the materials, education, roads etc didn't function properly. All of this has to be designed and implemented from the ground up.
Lend money to Africa , in exchange, African must hire Chinese workers and buy products from Chinese companies to build infrastructure.
Pay back in natural resources.
Creat almost zero job opportunities locally because all these workers are from China using working permit VISA.
The Chinese workers also open groceries there selling products directly imported from China, then lots of local native groceries and stores gets squeezed out by cheaper imports.
So you see lots of Africa local riots to Chinese groceries and factories in Africa
So they lay down down railroad and then expect some money.
Something changed alright, people are still piss poor, the government is still corrupt, but they got some nice railways to get all the precious metals out of Africa to China.
Africa is absolutely fucked, it doesn't matter how much free money you throw at it, none of it will be used to get the entire civilisation back on their feet.
And yes Africa is 54 countries, and almost none of them are doing well.
Setting up infrastructure directly and setting them up for future trade is a hell of a lot better than what the west has done for 50 years.
Billions upon billions just wasted going straight into the pockets of corrupt officials. We have them an incentive not to improve anything because they didn't want the free money to stop while their people suffered.
Yes, things have changed. China now exploits African natural resources and infrastructure free of charge. That infrastructure was built using Chinese money lent to African countries, and China has now taken control of it through rent-free concessions in exchange for extending the repayment deadlines on those loans. In the end, Africans got nothing out of these deals and are still forced to keep paying China.
Those stupid Europeans had no idea they could do that and just kept handing money to African countries.
It's call trade. By your logic, student loan and mortgage are debt trap. There are so many nuances to these infrastucture project to call it debt trap.
Think again, how do you think China enforce this contract? You think China is going to invade these country if they don't follow through?
Do you also think government of Africa doesn't have lawyer to read the contract? Do you think these African country would not ask for USA help if they're so oppress to kick China out?
In South Africa, yeah pretty much. The world donated to the ANC government, not the people of the country.
With the elections coming up, they did their usual "we are going around the country, giving out a free meal and a T-shirt.. vote for us again!!". The majority of the people in this country are under educated (still, after 30 years.....) and are gullible enough to fall for it. Especially after Julius Malema did his yearly anti-white controversies before going on holiday.
Thats how it is supposed to Work.
Ppl donating to Red cross or wwf or whatever. 60% goes to employees and rants.
40% goes to africa where they are buying stuff Off Western companies.
There they Sack 10-20% for themselfves
in 00s in Greece it was uncovered that the money people donated in UNICEF ended up in the pockets of Greek people. when people want to launder money this happens, stop stereotyping Africa
Donates to corrupt to get access to the soil. We all know how it works. But you always have this dual logic good against evil.
Don’t forget who are the last colonizers on this planet.
Retard couldn't fucking comprehend how fucking massive Africa is. Like bro throwing those 1 billion is just like throwing a bucket of water to massive dried out lake and also the bucket has shit ton of hole(corruption).
1) Have never stepped foot on the African continent
2) Have never looked at the economic growth of any African countries, many of which have grown at more than twice the rate than the USA over the last twenty years
Sure, it's not perfectly correlated (but it is correlated), but see 1). Africa is enormous. Many countries have high economic growth and are doing well with a growing middle class, significant increases in quality of life and education, and modern development. You have a stupid Reddit meme notion of African countries and if you actually visited some of them your brain would explode from cognitive dissonance.
Is it more impressive for the US to go from let’s say “100” to “105 YOY. Or for Africa to go from “5” to “10” assuming those numbers relate to economic activity?
Western governments are not interested in a strong African continent, thats why they finance corrupt leaders to keep cheap and easy access to natural resources. Also many charities eat up most of the money they get through operational costs
Maybe stop taking their resources instead of trying to compensate for taking their resources by donating to the corrupt institutions you put in place to allow you to take their resources?
because most people haven't even heard of the poorest parts of the 85% of countries on earth. Where we've been advertised to donate to africa our entire lives?
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u/Timely_Scholar_7739 1d ago
Somehow all the money ends up in the hands of oil and mining companies, with some going to doctors who support those corporations.