sa_lassie:

"Also power can be used oppressively when powerful countries partner with few elites/leaders from less developing country/countries to exploit their own people."
This is a key issue.

"As I look through the vision and ahead of Africa I am filled with a sense of risk and hopelessness emerging in the next century. Look: not only wars that is depopulating Africans but also the plague of HIV/Aids is gradually wiping our ‘race’ in this part of the continent Look at how HIV/Aids have infected our brothers and sisters and children in Ghana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya and Soweto."
I share the author's sense of risk, but I'm not filled by hopelessness as he is. Not that I can deny that despair about the state of this continent washes over me ever so often. I’m struggling in so many ways myself. Sometimes I just want to put my hands up in the air and say ”That’s it, I’ve finally had enough. I’m out of here.” Then I find myself remembering that scene in Blood Diamond where Danny(Leo DiCaprio) talks about leaving Africa. The colonel takes sand and pours it over Danny’s hand and says “This red earth, it’s in our skin. The Shona say the color comes from all the blood that’s been spilled fighting over the land. This is home. You’ll never leave Africa.” I’ll never leave either. Travel to other countries, yes. I enjoy learning about and experiencing other cultures, but this is home. Most of us will never leave. Despite everything, I still believe that Africa is the land of tomorrow. We have riches like oil, gold, diamonds, uranium etc., but these are not our most precious resource. Our people are. We need to learn how to harvest our various talents and work together for the betterment of all. If we allow ourselves to be filled with a sense of hopelessness, then we’ve already lost that bright future that I really do believe can be ours.

"The horrors keep coming upon us based on our own destruction and neglect."
I agree with this.

Side note: whenever I see anything to do with Ghana, I think of its 2010 World Cup football team. That match against the USA was one of the best of the tournament. Pity that they were robbed in their following match. Nevertheless, they made Africa proud. The Black Stars.



Entertainment

***[Steven Seagal | Mercenary For Justice]*** (2005) | Full Movie


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Sb9oIbUwo&feature=player_embedded#!



Steven Seagal ,
John Seeger
Jacqueline Lord ,
Maxine Barnol
Roger Guenveur Smith ,
Anthony Chapel
Luke Goss ,
John Dresham
Michael Kenneth Williams ,
Samuel Kay
Adrian Galley ,
Bulldog
Langley Kirkwood ,
Kruger (as Langley Jack Kirkwood)
Vivian Bieldt ,
Dekerk
Verity Price ,
Female Assistant
Bruce Young ,
Chief of Police Malik
Peter Butler ,
Ahmet Dasan
Farouk Valley-Omar ,
Elder Butler (as Fahruq Valley-Omar)
Tumi Mogoje ,
Eddie Jones
Faye Peters ,
Shondra Jones
Zaa Nkweta ,
Radio Jones (as Zaa Nikweta)

Mercenary John Seeger is one of the best in the business. John and his crew are battling some French soldiers on the French-controlled Galmoral Island in Southern Africa as they're trying to rescue the French Ambassador -- there's a coup going on. John gets angry when some of his soldiers unload their machine guns into the Ambassador and his family, blowing the mission and getting his best friend Radio Jones killed. John goes back to the U.S.A. and goes to the home of Radio's wife Shondra, tells her the news, and then promises her that he'll take care of her and her son Eddie. But shortly after he makes that vow, Shondra and Eddie get kidnapped. They were kidnapped by a CIA faction led by CIA dirty deeds man John Dresham and his boss, CIA Black Ops producer Anthony Chapel, who want to force John into doing a mission for them. Kamal Dasan, the son of prominent gun runner Ahmet Dasan,

this article brought tears to my eyes - the writer exposes the unspeakable atrocity that was the transatlantic slave trade and places responsibility firmly at the door of the white man.

MandingoII:

Which means it is a FLAWED writing. Africans wanted those Guns and Alcohol and was all to willing to sell of their Tribe and the next villages tribe to get more of it.

Lets keep history in perspective and TELL ALL THE HISTORY.

MandingoII:

Which means it is a FLAWED writing.  Africans wanted those Guns and Alcohol and was all to willing to sell of their Tribe and the next villages tribe to get more of it.

Lets keep history in perspective and TELL ALL THE HISTORY.

morpheus24:

Yep. Thats what them teachers in your schools have been told to teach your 'silly" black azz. If we share the blame around maybe we can get the AA recenting the Africans.

When will you understand that Slave trade was initiated by mostly Slave raiders and Dubious Kings who got lewed by the ornaments the "whites" flashed in front of them.

The African populous did not share in the bounties of this despicable practice nor did they gain any rewards from it, infact many families suffered the atrocities of being seperated from their kinfolk, Ergo they have nothing to do with Slavery in the context in which it was practiced in the WEST you "Numskull".

Re educate yourself Dumbazz

MandingoII:

Which means it is a FLAWED writing. Africans wanted those Guns and Alcohol and was all to willing to sell of their Tribe and the next villages tribe to get more of it.

Lets keep history in perspective and TELL ALL THE HISTORY.

In Ghana, politician and educator Samuel Sulemana Fuseini has acknowledged that his Asante ancestors accumulated their great wealth by abducting, capturing, and kidnapping Africans and selling them as slaves. Likewise, Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Awoonor has written: “I believe there is a great psychic shadow over Africa, and it has much to do with our guilt and denial of our role in the slave trade. We too are blameworthy in what was essentially one of the most heinous crimes in human histor[/b]y.

In 2000, at an observance attended by delegates from several European countries and the United States, officials from Benin publicized [b]President Mathieu Kerekou’s apology for his country’s role in “selling fellow Africans by the millions to white slave traders.” “We cry for forgiveness and reconciliation,” said Luc Gnacadja, Benin’s minister of environment and housing. Cyrille Oguin, Benin’s ambassador to the United States, acknowledged, “We share in the responsibility for this terrible human tragedy.

A year later, Senegal’s president Abdoulaye Wade, “himself the descendant of generations of slave-owning [and slave-trading] African king[/b]s,” urged Europeans, Americans, and Africans to acknowledge publicly and teach openly about their shared responsibility for the Atlantic slave trade

Wade’s remarks came months after the release of Adanggaman, by Ivory Coast director Roger Gnoan M’bala, “the first African film to look at African involvement in the slave trade with the West.” [b]“It’s up to us,” M’Bala insisted, “to talk about slavery, open the wounds of what we’ve always hidden and stop being puerile when we put responsibility on others . . . . In our own oral tradition, slavery is left out purposefully because Africans are ashamed when we confront slavery