Consider Your Investment Abroad Wasted Unless It Benefits Africa

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How many wealthy Africans do you know that have not spent his first thousands or million abroad? If he hasn't, he is wise or has not made it big to impress. If he has a land or a house, the prodigal son would sell it to buy a ticket and visas. From cradle to grave: even when the rich die, the obituaries would list foreign hospitals where they were treated. Looking back, at the way wealthy Africans invested their life and legacies in such areas as education at any level, houses, hospitals and children with laundered money abroad, they are indifferently impoverishing Africa.

The most painful are the rich children trained abroad by diminishing prospects for all youths in the same country depleted by their parents. Most of the hard work, perseverance, resources and funds spent to train them abroad yielded little returns unless they give back to individual African countries. Yet, most Africans abroad, except their children would like to retire and be buried at home. But what use is our dead bodies if Africa is only good as our cemetery?

God bless those that studied, worked hard and sent money back home to build projects, support relatives and friends. But most of the contributions abroad that could have saved Africa, were taken for granted there. Like their parents, they are told if they are that good, go contribute to Africa and make it livable for Africans at home and willing blacks in Diaspora that longed to live in Africa. Why make Western countries richer when you can create more opportunities; as our founding fathers did to free Africans?

Isabel dos Santos is another prodigal daughter declared wanted in Angola. It became obvious that, while we are bragging about some of the children that were able to obtain the best education money can buy in some of the world's best private schools like Isabel, most are underemployed abroad. They seldom help parents or their countries except to assist in laundering opportunities. Education itself, like idle talent without use to achieve progress in Africa is useless.

The spoiled brats are the ones that put their parents in senior or nursing homes and fight over their estates. Note the different behavior between children that grow up with parents abroad and those that grow up in foster homes or with nannies could hardly bond with their parents. It means you paid dearly for children that do not take to your culture, speak your language and only come home on visits, to spend two weeks at home or at your funerals before they go back. You put them in Foster homes, they neglect you in Senior homes. Do me I do you!

When Hilary Clinton "discovered" - It takes a village to raise a child - in the United States, she was referring to the Africa she knew compared to American generation of - Me Myelf and I. Well, privileged Africans have changed it and only care about their children raised in the Me generation world. Africans no longer invest in the future of our village children but launder their money abroad to Me Myself and I: kids, family and lovers.

Africans have always travelled, are very particular about Education as a ticket out of poverty or ignorance, and rightly so. Information and knowledge is a prerequisite for our development but it does not have to be unadapted, only foreign. Africans have passed down learning and family professions even before the establishment of Timbuktu Sankore University. So, making sure children are educated is not new. What is new is a system of education denigrating ours in favor of theirs. We wilfully neglected our duty to sustain ours.

However, wealthy Africans are not seeking education to escape poverty. Our eagerness to obtain it by fake, hook, or crooked ways is beyond reason. African billionaires donate unsolicited good money to European and American universities just to get Awards and honorary degrees while universities at home are starved of funds. Forced to go begging for local and foreign endowments.

One friend called the other in America telling him his son has been admitted to one of the universities but lacks foreign exchange to pay or see him through. He wanted the friend abroad to take a collateral loan on his house. Well, financial planners abroad always warn that unless the working class have a way of getting your pension or retirement savings back in kind from your children, they are better off taking student loans. If you are still secured in your old age, you can help them pay back. Otherwise, you may end up in a poor house or nursing home abroad, because adult children will be too absorbed with their own family responsibilities to pay you back.

If they refused to pay back their own father or mother in cash or in kind leaving her in senior homes, how will they pay back loans from their father's friend? There are many good universities that are affordable in Africa but the lure of foreign colleges is irresistible. We could not leave Africa to looters and riff-raffs that took over the political system, then complained that they wrecked Africa.

Many Londoners came back home sober and retired because Africa reveres our elders. You can spot these retired Africans shopping in the local markets without their wives and children, stingingly pricing goods like the old days. They still look agile from the good healthcare they had but some stay away from the responsibility of new families. There are stories that some of them are targets for swindlers that want their pensions and savings from foreign countries. Unfortunately, it is not safe to live alone, especially the older ladies, as many have become victims of drivers, gatemen, househelps or accidental falls.

This fear contributes to the reason other retired Africans start a new family at home to make sure they have children that can carry on their side of the family tree. Otherwise, out of all the children your father and mother had, you will become the missing link that cannot show any offspring at home. When we were growing up, they always claimed their children were not around. We knew them as barren fellows: Okobo ki bimo si tosi. Mafo type!


Therefore, in order to reinvigorate their line of family tree, they would start new families with younger blood. Any member of their new families in Africa that even try or get close to a foreign embassy looking for visas are disowned. They see it as a repeat of lessons learned, getting lost abroad. They insist new members of their families must find a college in African countries.

Even some younger Africans based abroad have decided their wives and husbands must be based in Africa. A friend banned the wife of his friend that kept on instigating his wife to ask for a vacation where their husbands were based. He branded the lady a bad influence trying to dislocate his new family. Well, the wives just wanted to be with their husbands or boyfriends abroad. The husbands on the other hand, may not be stable, eking out a living, being modest to send more money home or may have oyinbo wives abroad planning to return home to African wives.

Whatever the case, old or young men and even ladies these days are coming to realize that it is easier to raise a stable family in Africa if they have the means than in Europe and America where 66% of black families are headed by single parents. https://www.actrochester.org/children-youth/single-parent-families-by-race-ethnicity The lure of "modern" life and foreign education in a hostile environment abroad are nightmares for most blacks or Africans in the Diaspora. Africans expect the good life abroad created for their own color, not for you that longed to cash in. Even blacks there before Columbus cry out against injustice.

Where is your legacy? If you think that is discomforting, a few of the children at home are uncultured. They and their parents speak English, French or Portuguese to one another. Many of those wealthy youth at home are proud to patronize exotic tastes, even race cars and claim they do not understand their own local language. Shio o!

If some of the children abroad attend summer schools where cultural organizations and universities teach them African languages, especially when professional colleges require a second language; who are these homebred kids?

They trained us in schools based on Christian and Muslim ethics since they saw our culture as a competing threat with their missions.

10 July 2020
By Farouk Martins Aresa thenigerianvoice.com

True, we should never forget home when we're investing abroad.

When is America embassy open for visa application? I'm leaving here by Gods grace. I'm tired already.

Tumbulum:
When is America embassy open for visa application? I'm leaving here by Gods grace. I'm tired already.

You cannot prevent flies from following dead bodies to their graves.

jara:


You cannot prevent flies from following dead bodies to their graves.

yes you are right cos I have seen flies feast on the bodies and carcasses of Benue citizens butchered by armed herdsmen.
They are yet to get justice till this moment.

With all these, I can't advice my enemy to invest in Africa. The more you try to contribute your quota the more they frustrate your effort. African leaders keep preaching investment in Africa but they have refused to provide enabling environment for businesses to strive.

edoairways:
With all these, I can't advice my enemy to invest in Africa. The more you try to contribute your quota the more they frustrate your effort. African leaders keep preaching investment in Africa but they have refused to provide enabling environment for businesses to strive.

Your worst enemy? Please mention one enabling environment that favors your investment there.

I guess you do not know what it is by All Odds working against you. It is then you will realize all your blind opportunities in Nigeria.

If successful Africans abroad only work half as hard as they do abroad, in Africa, Nigeria will return to the golden opportunities it was for Africans.

You have been programmed and indoctrinated to hate your very being and that is why those that cry for help could not believe what they encounter outside Nigeria. They kiss the ground
at the Airport when Air Peace rescue them.

jara:


Your worst enemy? Please mention one enabling environment that favors your investment there.

I guess you do not know what it is by All Odds working against you. It is then you will realize all your blind opportunities in Nigeria.

If successful Africans abroad only work half as hard as they do abroad, in Africa, Nigeria will return to the golden opportunities it was for Africans.

You have been programmed and indoctrinated to hate your very being and that is why those that cry for help could not believe what they encounter outside Nigeria. They kiss the ground
at the Airport when Air Peace rescue them.

For a start, do you have constant power supply?

edoairways:

For a start, do you have constant power supply?

My Baroda! You fall my hand no be small.

Ask the richest man in Africa that made the same complaint about constant power supply where he got that in the middle of jungle in East Africa where he built huge cement plant and in other African countries' jungles.

After building his own power supply, he built roads leading to his plant, even housing for his workers.

You know what? He sold cement cheaper in those countries than Nigeria without enabling environment.

BTW, where else but Nigeria can you become rich selling pure water, puff puff, gala, Mama Put e?

I didn’t bother to read the article because I assumed the header summarizes it.

My opinion is that wherever you decide to make home is home.

jara:


My Baroda! You fall my hand no be small.

Ask the richest man in Africa that made the same complaint about constant power supply where he got that in the middle of jungle in East Africa where he built huge cement plant and in other African countries' jungles.

After building his own power supply, he built roads leading to his plant, even housing for his workers.

You know what? He sold cement cheaper in those countries than Nigeria without enabling environment.

BTW, where else but Nigeria can you become rich selling pure water, puff puff, gala, Mama Put e?

The richest man had the money not an average business man. If it were easy to set up power plant,why haven't we see more Nigerians setting their businesses? Persistent power cut we are to contend with, security is another issue.

jara:


You cannot prevent flies from following dead bodies to their graves.

The moment you brought Isabel dos Santos to your article without doing research about her, I knew your were writing from emotional frustration. Now let me school you about Isabel dos Santos

Isabel dos Santos was born in 1973 to a Russian mother and an Angola father, her father met her mom while they were both student in the former USSR. After her dad finnish his study he return to Angola to continue his struggle with the MPLA until 1975 when Angola got independence and he was appointed minister of foreign affairs.

Isabel dos santos grew up with her white Russian mother after her parents divorce her mother took her to london and personally train her in school because the mom herself is from a wealthy russian family.
After her university education she return to Angola and join her father who was now the president of the republic of Angola.

Most Isabel dos santos investment, Business and properties are in Luanda the capital of Angola, while other properties and business are in Lisbon, Portugal.
I still wonder why you drag her to this your article because to me she did nothing wrong, if her father use his position to enrich her then your anger should be directed to her father and not her. Thanks

Kenplay,

Thanks for the compliment but I did not write the article, I culled it.

What you wrote, if anything, buttressed the point the writer was trying to make. You are right, he should have consulted you. But I think the article is probably too long for some already.

Please read the article again. If Isabel that would never be accepted anywhere including where she was born as a niigga could become so filthy rich because of her father as President of Angola why are the people of Angola so poor?

It is children like Isabel that the writer was pointing attention to. Which investment does she have in Angola like Nigeria leaders children that Angola and Nigeria should be thankful for?

The info you gave about her is not knew, many privileged Nigerian children including you would identify with her.

Isabel dos Santos is another prodigal daughter declared wanted in Angola. It became obvious that, while we are bragging about some of the children that were able to obtain the best education money can buy in some of the world's best private schools like Isabel, most are underemployed abroad. They seldom help parents or their countries except to assist in laundering opportunities. Education itself, like idle talent without use to achieve progress in Africa is useless

Published on Jan 24, 2020
Oil Banker Found Dead in Lisbon as Angola’s Government Comes After Africa’s Richest Woman
Europe 15:06 GMT 23.01.2020Get short URL The billionaire daughter of the former President of Angola, Isabel dos Santos, has been charged with money laundering and mismanagement. Her father, José Eduardo dos Santos, ruled the country between 1979 and 2017

https://interpol.einnews.com/country/angola

jara:
Kenplay,

Thanks for the compliment but I did not write the article, I culled it.

What you wrote, if anything, buttressed the point the writer was trying to make. You are right, he should have consulted you. But I think the article is probably too long for some already.

Please read the article again. If Isabel that would never be accepted anywhere including where she was born as a niigga could become so filthy rich because of her father as President of Angola why are the people of Angola so poor?

It is children like Isabel that the writer was pointing attention to. Which investment does she have in Angola like Nigeria leaders children that Angola and Nigeria should be thankful for?

The info you gave about her is not knew, many privileged Nigerian children including you would identify with her.

Your ascertion and the article smells of envy, hate and in-built frustration. Jao Lorenco has a personal beef with the dos santos dynasty, he was such a coward that he cant touch Jose Eduardo dos santos but goes about humilating his children.

For your notice, its also my dream to marry a white lady and have children who school in Europe and will handle my global business empire in the future, if that makes you angry then go to hell.

Just spot one of Abacha children

FYI, marrying a white lady does not give you white privilege. It might even make you a target for racists in their country. Actually you, your white wife and children automatically become nniiggaas.

Where are you going to get money to invest there? Of course from Nigeria loot. By the time you pay lawyers bank managers and handlers, you will be lucky to end up with half of your loot.

You will still remain an untouchable with your family. You think it is Nigeria where they worship white skin or anything close?

Go and marry one of those light skin beggars on the city streets to get your children white skin.

Kenplay:


For your notice, its also my dream to marry a white lady and have children who school in Europe and will handle my global business empire in the future, if that makes you angry then go to hell.

jara:
FYI, marrying a white lady does not give you white privilege. It might even make you a target for racists in their country. Actually you, your white wife and children automatically become nniiggaas.

Where are you going to get money to invest there? Of course from Nigeria loot. By the time you pay lawyers bank managers and handlers, you will be lucky to end up with half of your loot.

You will still remain an untouchable with your family. You think it is Nigeria where they worship white skin or anything close?

Go and marry one of those light skin beggars on the city streets to get your children white skin.

Truly, you are ignorant. You think after I travel abroad and hustle there I will keep my money there? Lol...mr man, any money I make there am bringing it home to invest.
I might keep only 30% there with my daughter/son names as a bi-citizen of that country.