₦airaland Forum

NaijaPikinGidi: So what will you say of a fellow who keeps a blind pair of eyes to the slum settlements around his own vicinity but calls out the media to villify his neighbour for having overgrown grass in his yard?

Who is that? I am not sure I am with you.

zetdee: NaijaPikinGindi, You've been threatening to expose South Africa for a while now. What is it about South Africa that is hidden, anyone can do a Google search to find many stories about crime, poverty, rape etc, you can find stats on South Africa easily online, YouTube has many videos of our slums, cctv films of robberies taking place etc. Go to any SA news-site, you'll find mainly negative stories about SA, even here on Nairaland you find threads depicting SA in a negative light. Each day on our news we see people living in shacks and poverty. The image below shows that SA has many people in slums, but its not in the majority as you're suggesting.

I have seen slums all over the world. Even here in the US, we got places that are pretty close to being slums.

Amazing about Botswana.

I just checked.

In fact, it says here that Botswana is the best governed country in Africa .

Botswana and Mauritius, I suppose.

They are solid.

http://monroviapost.com/botswana-ranked-best-governed-country-in-africa-then-namibia-s-africa-ghana-see-full-list/

andrewza: I am impressed with ethiopia they have done a lot with there food and starvation problem, the barcode joke no longer works with them. Not to forget botswana if they had South Africa's resources and population they would be a global power

Yes - I worked in Botswana for two months in 2011. They took me through their management of the diamond industry (on the government side). They seem to be up there with the best in terms of actually managing the industry. Think a lot of Afrcan governments could learn from them.

I spent one mont in Ethiopia. They are seriously undersold. The country poor, but they are determined. They now send their young people overseas to be educated, which is great.

Governments never say enough about African civilisation, astronomy and science?


What do think about Mali, Timbuktu and the Dogon?

I think it's an inspirational story that should be told more...

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http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/dogon.htm

The Dogon and the Sirius Mystery
"Several specialists now claim they have found the long-sought "final evidence" of visits made to earth by ancient astronauts. The myths of the Dogon tribesmen of Mall, West Africa, contain astronomical knowledge which the native people could have neither learned by themselves nor guessed. Obviously, the researchers say, some more advanced civilization told them. These fascinating Dogon legends speak of Jupiter's four moons and Saturn's rings, which were not seen by human beings until the invention of the telescope. They speak of the star Sirius and of a pair of invisible companions. One of them circles Sirius every fifty years, the legends declare, and is made of a metal that is the heaviest thing in the universe. Astronomers have discovered that such an object (called "Sirius-B" does exist but only the most sophisticated and sensitive instruments -- unavailable, of course, to the Dogons -- can detect it." from The Sirius Mystery, by James Oberg

Look at these GDP growth rates. It is a story to watch.

andrewza: i am white and agree with you

What I find interesting about Kenya is that they used to be one of the most corrupt nations in Africa. They still are corrupt, but they have worked hard on it. They are going places.

andrewza: i am white and agree with you

I am mixed and I agree

NaijaPikinGidi: Dear Coma_Berenices, you definitely bring a whole new dimension to the debate and this is what makes virtual interactions like this to come alive. If you don't mind please go a step further by giving these excerpts some personal context. Except where you are totally aligned with the actual view presented. More like unpackng some of the figures/data for better understanding.

You asked for pictures and truths. What I have posted so far are facts, which you asked for. You said "truths", not views. If the pictures need explaining, I will explain. I think they have been pretty straightforward so far.

Hidden truth:

Cape Town is in the top ten on the list of the most beautiful cities in the world.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/22/paris-london-travel-lifestyle-travel-tourism-new-york-top-ten-cities_slide_7.html

Hidden truth - Namibia strikes oil

http://www.zambianwatchdog.com/brazilian-company-discovers-oil-near-namibian-coast/

Hidden truth:


Africa's tallest building could catapult continent into skyscraper big league
Centurion Symbio-City, near Johannesburg, poised to become world's 14th-tallest freestanding structure



David Smith in Johannesburg
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 31 May 2012 12.45 EDT

An illustration of Centurion Symbio-City, which will soar to 447 metres – higher than the Empire State Building
Visitors to the "Top of Africa" have been known to feel a little let down. The observation deck, 50 floors up, at the top of the continent's tallest building, the Carlton Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, is somewhat threadbare, with a quaint tuckshop and old photos on the wall.

But plans have been announced for a tower that by 2018 could catapult Africa into the world's skyscraper big league.

The African continent's corruption perception index

Hidden truth - despite what we have been told, Twelve African countries are ranked among the 75 least corrupt nations in the world, according to the 2012 index published on 5 December by Transparency International.

http://www.rnw.nl/africa/article/12-african-countries-rank-top-75-anti-corruption-index



As published by our top partner allAfrica

Published annually, the Corruption Perceptions Index draws upon a range of data sources to determine how corrupt countries' public sectors are perceived to be. On a scale from 100 (highly clean) to 0 (highly corrupt), two-thirds of all countries scored below 50. This year's survey includes 176 countries, down from 182 in 2011.

The top eight in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in 2012 also led the list in 2011, with approximately the same global rankings, ranging from 65 to 43. Liberia – at number 11 in sub-Sahara with a score of 41 – saw its global ranking rise 16 points – from number 91 last year to 75 in 2012.

Botswana, Cape Verde, Mauritius, Rwanda, Namibia, Ghana and Lesotho led the SSA rankings, along with South Africa, which dropped two places this year – to nine from seven. Gambia, which was ninth last year, dropped this year to 21 in SSA and 105 globally. Tunisia, which is grouped with Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries, is tied with Liberia at 75 on the global rankings.

Nigeria and Kenya both received the low ranking of 139, compared with 143 for Nigeria and 154 for Kenya in 2011. Cameroon, the Congo Republic (Brazzaville) and the Central African Republic are ranked 144. Angola is 157, DR Congo 160 and Equatorial Guinea 163. Crowding the bottom among the most corrupt in the world are Chad (163), Sudan (173 and Somalia (174, last).

For the rankings (SSA/Global) and scores for all SSA countries in the index, see full article originally published as 'Africa: Twelve Countries Rank in Top 75 on Anti-Corruption Index' here.

Hidden truth - Africa's democracy index

Hidden truth -

Africa's racial tolerance index.

Fascinating, isn't it?

I love this map

Hidden truth - The arch of the covenant is in ethiopia :-)

The hidden beeeeg secret

Nigerian fashion. Lovely

The hidden truth - Kenya is beautiful !

The hidden truth - Africa democracy map.

I see that in the other thread, they were posting pictures.

The hidden truth - Bikini walk, South Africa

Ah! My favourite topic !

You can't tell me a thing about Africa. I know you lot. Trying to work it out here. Thinking you'll lie to unsuspecting people.

all4naija: Where are you getting those images? Is the last one the image of your uncle?!

You can't hide the truth.