Brothers, i have watched overtime the flow of international politics. i have seen how the US, UN,EU etc have given assistance to African countries. but there are questions beyond these assistance. foreign aid is usually tied(conditional) and these conditions are usually against poor African countries interests. the issues in WTO(World trade organisation) ensure that africa remains poor forever and the powers that be wont change it. when we need these guys most, they fail us. they failed us in somalia, they failed us in liberia, they failed us in sierra leone, they insulted us in rwanda(when they prefered to save animals than Africans)
but information is distorted by western media. e.g, Mugabe has been the leader in Zimbabwe, we never knew how bad he was till he turned against the british, then we saw, steadily on BBC how despotic mugabe is.

my question is;do you think these guys(US,UK,EU,UN)Really love Africa truly.?

I don't think so. I've always maintained that even though we're "free", we're not really free. There's still something called imperialism.

I really believe that if any president makes a move that isn't beneficial to the powers-that-be and refuses to back down even when threatened with debts, he'll be assassinated. I also believe that they have a hand in our politics. It takes time but someday I truly, truly hope that they'll get exposed for what they are.

Face it -- Nigeria is far richer than the United States so if we ever make it to the top, they're doomed.

toshmann:

my question is;do you think these guys(US,UK,EU,UN)Really love Africa truly.?

Why do we need them to love us?

I can understand the poorer African nations but there is no reason why we Nigeria should require aid from anyone. Before we blame anyone for their "hate" of Africa, we should look at ourselves. The foreign media can exaggerate or show only the bad stuff, fine. Foreign countries can look down on us, fine. But we should realise that we will always be lightweights in international politics as long as we are lightweights in trade/economics. We don't have to trade with the US or Europe to be economic heavyweights. The African market alone is almost a billion people, Asia even more, all apart from our over 100million people.

Anyone historian will tell you that to be strong in international politics you have to be strong economically _{or have nuclear weapon}. The connection is undeniable.

Fixing our economic issues means fixing our internal political issues, so until our politicians start to show us love, don't expect any foreign govt to show you love. Afterall they obviously will love their citizens more than you.

THERE'S NO FREE LUNCH IN FREETOWN! That's what I tell people. Once you are willing to ask for and receive assistance from a third party you should magnanimous enough to live with the conditions otherwise, you turn it down. Even blessings from God come with conditions! You must keep the 10 commandments.

In every society or association, there's always an appointed or self appointed leader. In the present world there are power blocs. This is not unusual. To be reckoned with, you must earn it, you can't beg for it and no one would dumpt it at your feet.

We should put our house in order one way or the other. There's politics everywhere, even in our homes. We should stop grumbling, instead ensure that our leaders transform this country so that we can be reckoned with.

On the Mugabe issue: When he was fighting against apatheid, we considered him a hero. But now there's no apatheid to fight, so he has turned on his people. And that's the truth. Did the western world make him do that? I was in South Africa a while ago when I read about his retirement mansion. Gawd!!! I puked. This mansion, is worth more than the present presidential palace (~£3.75million). On record he has officially earned less than £630,000 since coming to power about 23years ago. In a land that has been ravished by famine. And we blame the west for picking on him.

There are no permanent friends or enemies, but permanent interests in international relations.

well said idekeson
is bush fighting a war on terror, or stealing petrol from the middle east?

For all I know they haven't turned up a single WMD or any of the nuclear devices they said were there.

Capitalism is the worst form of Govt There I said it
Makes the poor poorer and the rich even Richer

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Look at Bolivia, Equador and Cuba they don't need the UN or US!How many resolutions at the UN have been kept by the powers that be?We can take care of ourselves, we don't need anyone, only that the individual is yet to come lead us!

they are worst than Lucifer himself and some stupid African Leaders run to them with their tails behind their back for loan for their pocket all in the name of rebuilding one infrastructure or the other and such international community never bordered to check mate them on the said loan they took. i tell you both are worst than Lucifer i tell you

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