a_unique_person
Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
Jon_in_london said:
Did you even read the link? It talks about that point exactly.
Never been any civil war in Malawi but its one of the poorest countrys on the globe. Zambia is also in a bad way but there has never been a war in which Zambia was involved. Never been civil war in Botswana but they aint so hot either and they are a single tribe in a nation-state. Lesotho is also a single tribe nation-state but yet a few years back armed intervention was required to prop-up the elected government. While Zimbabwe had some war 23 years ago, its current state of shithood has nothing to do with the war. Wars DO make things worse but they are more a symptom rather than the underlying sickness.
Which would mean chopping Africa up into a patchwork of principlaties few of which would be viable nation-states.
And afterwards- they can all fight each other in proper wars rather than just civil wars? Just like they did before the evil white-man came along?
RACE CARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The story of Modern Malawi is the story of it's ruler, Dr Banda. He was a tyrannical despot who set the stage for it's poverty.
It has also been subject to the slave trade, recently serious drought, overpopulation due to a ban on birth control, refugees from wars in neighbouring states, and aids.
http://www.angelfire.com/mac/egmatthews/worldinfo/africa/malawi.html
As my link points out, the emphasis on aid is to change it from simple charity to be more education based. Singapore, for example, has no natural resources, but a very high standard of living. The aids problem, which apparently affects 1/3 of those sexually active, would be improved immensely with the use of condoms and eduction.
