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banku:
Go Back To Fix Your Wretched Communities: If So Smart And Rich

Nobody provided enabling an environment for African billionaires when they establish schools, factories or manufacturing plants in the middle of nowhere and in the face of discrimination against all odds outside Africa. More Africans could have made it at home but for greed, self-hatred, pulling down one another and distaste for locally-made products and services for preferences encouraged by foreign fraud and deceptive trade practices.

"Go back" is not new as it has been used against Irish, Polish, Jews in Europe and even German socialists in early America. But the only people it is still stuck with are Africans or people of color no matter how many generations have lived in Europe and the Americas. Our looters and those who joined in putting down their own countries are put on notice that you and your family even if you escape from home, would remain second class citizens, killed on the street like dogs but given due process as the last rite in a court of law; regardless of how highly placed or how much money you stashed in their banks.

On the other hand, if foreigners are so rich, why are they so mean spirited, afraid to compete on an equal playing field and scared of their shadows? But for the rich environment and good connections, most were lucky to be born into, they would have degenerated into wretchedness worse than Africans. Rich communities save many of us while poor environment retards the development of the gifted but unfortunate, without the opportunity to use God-given talents.

It does not mean that since a man is born in poverty, wretchedness is born in him. Talents come from unexpected diversified communities, even from the most deprived and environmental dumps. If foreigners were not in our communities sucking every living cell out of life in Africa, acquiring cheap resources and free labor to build their empires, there would be no need for a few of us to get out in order to make it. Meaning: If You Were Not Here We Will Not Be There.

If Africans wretched their countries hoping to escape to greener pastures, you have no place to hide or run to. Those that returned found our countries worse than how we left it, different to countries built by Herbert Macauley, Kwame Nkrumah, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ernest Ekoli, Obafemi Awolowo, Albert Luthuli or Jomo Kenyatta. Those that want to return are stuck as economic refugees because of the wishful thinking of ingrates expecting to create paradise outside Africa.

Unlike Independence fighters that returned home to wrestle in order to make Africa a better place. By their labor, most of us could not wait to get back home. If you do not come back when you finish your studies, folks would say: you wan kill your mama. Later, Military and vagabonds in power turned Africa into forsaken countries. These vagabonds became foreign cronies (costoma dada ni) patronizing foreign institutions, Structural Adjustment, and Devaluations for plundering our resources, waste talents and vandalized Africa into poverty never imagined.

Yet, we celebrate fake success at home or abroad where you are constantly told to "go back" and rescue your ancestral countries? Those on the land of American Indians before Columbus are told to "go back" by immigrants that met them there. A reminder that none of us, Africans at home or in Diaspora will be respected anywhere in the world until one or more African communities can be successfully ruled and managed in their own countries economically and politically. Your acquired accents, education and hospitals can't save you from hell – “Go Back”!

Stokely Carmichael reminded us that West Indian countries were not built to be self-sufficient or successful but used as a sugar cane plantation. It is up to us to change Africa into a sustainable place that can trade within and negotiate fair and equal trade with the rest of the world. We cannot cry over the ways others protect their self-interest anywhere if we do not protect assets and talents at home. There is nothing wrong with loving yourself or your own people as others do, but everything wrong with self-hating and justifying their policies and insults against you.

Therefore when Africans celebrate their riches at home on social media and brag about just landing from “civilized climes”; you may want to know at whose expense they are celebrating. Indeed, some of these Africans would drive a hot shaft through their mothers and throw her under the bus like their colleagues at home to make money and gain fame. Some of them blame “natives of color” and Africans victims in Diaspora for their own predicament.

Even worse are Africans and minorities who champion, excuse and echo the derogatory slurs of their tormentors to elevate themselves, wishing that they will be accepted or accommodated. You can call them wannabe, traitors or Uncle Tom but they do it for selfish interest since they have lost all respect for one another. When Africans in Italy and Alberta Canada were elected, did you check out the platform of the parties that gave them the “opportunity”?

These are extreme right-wing parties looking for minorities to enforce hatred they have for Africans and minorities like them. History books and Libya exposed those Africans allowed to discipline other African slaves. They were brutal and worse than the “Massa” of the slaves.

Nevertheless, self-aggrandizing in the midst of poverty is nauseating. It is a curse to get high in the midst of want. Those of us that are lucky enough to “jam luck” with or without blood and sweat, must invest our wealth in productive endeavors that bring returns not only for our families but to our communities. Enough celebration on depreciating vanities. It does not profit a man to gain riches while leaving his people poorer. Invest that money in progressive ventures.

There are some honest hard-working middle-class Africans like Godwin Maduka, the Texas-based anesthesiologist that turned a little village in Igbo land around in Nigeria. He has a place to proudly call home. So if you are ridiculed and told to “go back” to your impoverished invested ancestral homes, show them the village you come from. Abi you dey shame?

The best way to illustrate the familiar “go back” to your ancestral land is to look at Libya and Congo as more recent cases. They bombed the heck out of Libya and dislocated the “paradise” Libyans now realized they had under Gadhafi. Subsidized education, health care, housing, first car, and first weddings. Libyans gave all these up for "democracy and freedom". Gadhafi was humiliated to death by his own people just as Lumumba in Congo. Na democracy we go chop?

When Libya became engulfed in a civil war, even guest workers and non-Libyans from neighboring Arab and African countries lost all their contracts and means of survival. As Libyans fled the dear country and tried to cross into Europe and the Americas followed by other Arabs and Africans, you guess it right. They were told to “go back” to their countries. The plight of Africans drowning in the sea, dying in the desert and enslaved; another story.

The point remains that if they were not in our Continent to exploit, destroy and subjugate people they consider disposable, there was no reason so many people would have fled their homelands to seek democracy and freedom branded in their countries as their human right. These are the same people that denied the same democratic rights for their minorities to vote. Anyway and anyhow they could: to suppress their votes.

African countries head the poverty list with most children used to beg for arms and foreign aid. We need to wake up and help ourselves, confront our exploiters and negotiate terms of trade as a United Continent, not play up as the small colonial divided ethnic nations. Apoda, who cares about which foreign hospital you die in or the foreign school your children graduated from when the poverty you created to get the money at home cries out loud to your Massa?

By Farouk Martins Aresa
https://www.modernghana.com/news/945919/go-back-to-fix-your-wretched-communities-if-so-smart-and-ri.html

lilwetdick:
northerners are not the problem, you are the problem, check your environment, what have you done to improve it, if given that report, will you even act on it, check the state schools in lagos are they even up to standards, pls just stop your blaim game

uuzba:
Well, let's look at it this way.
There are many tribes and villages in Nigeria.
But everyone does not live inside village

Many live in City. And the number now rising.
The language not the city is basically the colonised language, English. The city is the most mixed up part of Nigeria and if all city expand more, everyone will have to be speaking English.
People cannot expand their villages due to culture. So those areas will shrink. But people are interested in expanding cities.

Maybe I'm wrong but I see more people losing their native tongue and speaking city English instead.
I've not met a Yoruba man who traveled to the east, entered an Igbo village, learnt Igbo and built house there. If at all, he will travel to the city and that what Igbo guys do also. Travel to city in the west and slowly expand it

franchasng:
When we talk, they say we are talking nonsense that black people are smarter than white people.

Until black Africans accept their weakness as a race and begin a honest process of finding solutions to their weakness, Africa will remain backward and joke of all races

Black Africans and all blacks must stop all the blame games black people give that it is the whiteman or western world that made them backward, then liberate yourself like the Asians.

Is it white people that are telling Buhari to remain tribalistic, myopic, and nepotistic in his leadership of Nigeria

Is it also white people or Neo-Colonialists that are telling Buhari to be silent about Fulani herdsmen his brothers destroying Nigeria's agricultural sector with their archaic cattle rearing practice and lack of respect for other Nigerians who aren't herdsmen

Is it also Neo-Colonialists that told Buhari to be appointing key government officials based on tribal and religious sentiments instead of by merit and competency without minding their tribe and religion

These are the problems black race have and I doubt it will ever be solved because if you try to solve it, they will hate you, sabotage your effort and possibly murder you with your good intentions.

Who built the conducive environments for Japanese people, for Chinese people, for American people, for British people, for Germans, for French people, for Singaporeans, for Dutch people, for Swizz people, etc

They built their conducive environments to enable their citizens to succeed by themselves, not by aliens......they coordinated themselves, coordinated their leadership and carved a beautiful nation for themselves, so they are not holding black African nations back from coordinating themselves to also build a conducive environment for their black citizens to succeed in black nations!!


Why is it that blacks only succeed and excel when they travel to whiteman's nation

Why is it that blacks only find their voice only when they travel to whiteman's nation to live and learn, why

Why is it that black people hardly excel in their home black nations

Why is it that black people only remember black activism when they travel to whiteman's nation or when they are living in whiteman's nation

Why can't black people living in black nations come together and start a black revolution to emancipate the black race from poverty, disease, undevelopment, backwardness, darkness, dark practices, inhumane practices and then launch their black activism from their black nations instead staying in whiteman's nation and be rocking shoulder with the same whiteman sheltering and providing for them, why why why

The black race have a fundamental weakness from the start of mankind, and the black race needs to accept this natural weakness first, then begin a true search for lasting solution starting from their homelands not from a whiteman's nation!

Go back to your black nation, organize your youths, enlighten them, start from grabbing leadership power to enable you and your team have enough power to change things....and when you grab the power, don't forget your mission like Buhari and other failed black leaders who forgot their promises to their nations once they get to power....and become selfish and focus on enriching themselves, their family members, close friends, close allies and few selected people....don't be like them because that is another bigger weakness of the black race - SELFISHNESS!

Black people are selfish.....they are mostly concerned about their well being and that of their immediate family members, others can go to hell!

Black people hardly think of collective growth....that is also evident on this thread where some people arguing with me will be bragging that they are more successful than some white people they see in the white nations they live....they forgot that I am not here to talk about individual monetary success but here to talk about collective national success of a race, a people which black nations have failed woefully to achieve due to their natural weakness of selfishness and self centeredness!

BLACK RACE HAVE A FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM FROM CREATION OF MANKIND, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SLAVE TRADE OR NEO-COLONIALISM, IN FACT, SLAVE TRADE AND NEO-COLONIALISM ARE BIGGER EVIDENCES THAT WHITE RACE ARE SUPERIOR TO BLACK RACE IN THINKING, INNOVATION, POWER, ETC BECAUSE IF NOT, TELL ME WHY BLACK RACE SAT IN THEIR ASSES AND ALLOWED THE WHITE RACE TO COME ALL THE WAY FROM THEIR FAR AWAY LANDS TO ATTACK THEM, CONQUER THEM, SLAVE TRADE THEM AND ALSO COLONIZE THEM FOR CENTURIES IN THEIR OWN BLACK LANDS

lilwetdick:
pls stop saying nonesense, the islamic world is more developed than your country, saudi-arabia, UAE, omar, kuwait, even iran all islamic country are more developed than even the christian part of nigeria

uuzba:
What blame game? Is the Federal school his personal property?
Well to continue, he was called out of retirement to principal a private school in Lagos by people who appreciate good things. The school is doing very well as he finally implemented all those things Federal Government refused to implement in their schools.

But now every private school will go ahead and implement different standards uncoordinated. Some private nschools are so stupid that they train their children straight for Western nations. Those kids are TOO BIG to survive in Nigeria and that is another WRONG education that the wealthy cannot understand.

Reference:
Africa... oh my Africa. The only continent that has never and will perhaps never dominate the world. The moddle east has had their time, the West has had its time and now the East is rising...

Africa, the only continent totally conquered from tip to toe but even in the height if the great Egyptian empire of antiquity never was able to cross even the Red Sea to conquer is neighbours....

If brother cannot agree with brother to build a simple dwelling, how will communities agree to build a strong nation, how can nations agree to build a strong, world conquering and world dominating continent.

Every African has in his DNA a gene of avarice, discord and strife... of reckless pride and debilitating greed..... of mediocrity and failure...

DesChyko:
Well said.
Like a friend said "The day I gave up on Nigeria is the day they saw a young Sowore and abandoned him, choosing to fight over Atiku and Buhari instead, same old men that played huge roles in driving Nigeria to the sinkhole it's in now"

uuzba:
A German overseas is very much proud of Germany back home. There is some sort of correlation.

A Nigerian overseas is confused. Does he identify with the whole Nigeria, here or with his tribe/village inside Nigeria?

Most other western countries don't have this problem
Definitely not Chinese. Chinese is Chinese.
I was in UK once. As they foreigners there can speak, Italian, Spanish, Indian, German, somebody asked me to speak "Nigerian" let them hear it

Can you see the problem? There's nothing called "Nigerian". Hence people don't know how to help this nation.

Dpharisee:
Marrying a white woman is emotional thing for the couple involved. The Igbos and also a lot of Yorubas abroad like competing with whites in schools and in every sphere which you hardly see in other Nigerians

TooMuchStuff:
Oga, don't u get it? I said Islamic ideology in competition with democracy doesn't give development.
UAE is and Islamic nation with over 70% non Muslim population. Saudi is a theocracy with large tourist money and oil.

uuzba:
My Dad worked as an Educationist. He was a Principal of Fed Govt Colleges, later an inspector of Govt Colleges.
So he was always under the Minister of Education. First, Babatunde Fafunwa, then Jibril Aminu. .
He wrote reports and recommendations for schools. These report were carried UP the ladder and eventually get to the desk of the Minister to read and implement.

The Minister did not read, and did not implement. Next thing, they bring one northern who knows nothing and place over my dad as his boss.
This is what Ministry of Education did. Till my dad retired. He was upset many times. The Minister is put there by politics. All other permanent secrety and government staff are placed by qualifications. But it started turning into Man-know-man positions.

Hence you can see the BS we have today as Education standard

lordskid:


Few solutions

1. Restructure this "contraption" into 3 nations & make the native language the lingua-franca in each nation.

2. Revamp the whole Legislative & create a new constitutional laws.

3. Discard the old crappy educational system and replace it with Plato's philosophy (mode) of education.

4. No more fiat/paper money. Embrace electronic currency.

5. Ban all religious practices (both Xtianity & Islam).

6. 100% focus on the Agriculture sector.

7. Place ban on certain SM platforms: FB, IG, Twitter.

skywalker240:
i weep for the Nigerian Youth cos the Nigerian youth today are total failure, [b]just imagine some so educated idiots on this forum spilling rubbish from that phallus of an anus they call mouth during the election. [/b]Some said why cant he contest for councilor or LGA chairman first? Some said he is inexperienced in political affairs, and yet the experienced old idiots keeps ripping them apart.

if there is a word called 'LOST', it should be used to classify the youths in this country.

even when another messiah comes again, these stupid youths would still abandon him for any of the old fools.

Fela said 'SUFFERING & SMILLING' What else do you want me to say.

franchasng:
When we talk, they say we are talking nonsense that black people are smarter than white people.

Until black Africans accept their weakness as a race and begin a honest process of finding solutions to their weakness, Africa will remain backward and joke of all races

Black Africans and all blacks must stop all the blame games black people give that it is the whiteman or western world that made them backward, then liberate yourself like the Asians.

Is it white people that are telling Buhari to remain tribalistic, myopic, and nepotistic in his leadership of Nigeria

Is it also white people or Neo-Colonialists that are telling Buhari to be silent about Fulani herdsmen his brothers destroying Nigeria's agricultural sector with their archaic cattle rearing practice and lack of respect for other Nigerians who aren't herdsmen

Is it also Neo-Colonialists that told Buhari to be appointing key government officials based on tribal and religious sentiments instead of by merit and competency without minding their tribe and religion

These are the problems black race have and I doubt it will ever be solved because if you try to solve it, they will hate you, sabotage your effort and possibly murder you with your good intentions.

Who built the conducive environments for Japanese people, for Chinese people, for American people, for British people, for Germans, for French people, for Singaporeans, for Dutch people, for Swizz people, etc

They built their conducive environments to enable their citizens to succeed by themselves, not by aliens......they coordinated themselves, coordinated their leadership and carved a beautiful nation for themselves, so they are not holding black African nations back from coordinating themselves to also build a conducive environment for their black citizens to succeed in black nations!!


Why is it that blacks only succeed and excel when they travel to whiteman's nation

Why is it that blacks only find their voice only when they travel to whiteman's nation to live and learn, why

Why is it that black people hardly excel in their home black nations

Why is it that black people only remember black activism when they travel to whiteman's nation or when they are living in whiteman's nation

Why can't black people living in black nations come together and start a black revolution to emancipate the black race from poverty, disease, undevelopment, backwardness, darkness, dark practices, inhumane practices and then launch their black activism from their black nations instead staying in whiteman's nation and be rocking shoulder with the same whiteman sheltering and providing for them, why why why

The black race have a fundamental weakness from the start of mankind, and the black race needs to accept this natural weakness first, then begin a true search for lasting solution starting from their homelands not from a whiteman's nation!

Go back to your black nation, organize your youths, enlighten them, start from grabbing leadership power to enable you and your team have enough power to change things....and when you grab the power, don't forget your mission like Buhari and other failed black leaders who forgot their promises to their nations once they get to power....and become selfish and focus on enriching themselves, their family members, close friends, close allies and few selected people....don't be like them because that is another bigger weakness of the black race - SELFISHNESS!

Black people are selfish.....they are mostly concerned about their well being and that of their immediate family members, others can go to hell!

Black people hardly think of collective growth....that is also evident on this thread where some people arguing with me will be bragging that they are more successful than some white people they see in the white nations they live....they forgot that I am not here to talk about individual monetary success but here to talk about collective national success of a race, a people which black nations have failed woefully to achieve due to their natural weakness of selfishness and self centeredness!

BLACK RACE HAVE A FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM FROM CREATION OF MANKIND, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SLAVE TRADE OR NEO-COLONIALISM, IN FACT, SLAVE TRADE AND NEO-COLONIALISM ARE BIGGER EVIDENCES THAT WHITE RACE ARE SUPERIOR TO BLACK RACE IN THINKING, INNOVATION, POWER, ETC BECAUSE IF NOT, TELL ME WHY BLACK RACE SAT IN THEIR ASSES AND ALLOWED THE WHITE RACE TO COME ALL THE WAY FROM THEIR FAR AWAY LANDS TO ATTACK THEM, CONQUER THEM, SLAVE TRADE THEM AND ALSO COLONIZE THEM FOR CENTURIES IN THEIR OWN BLACK LANDS

darkelf:
Kettle calling pot black.

Challenge with facts and not insults.

People like you will cause strife and division if given rule over a local govt.

Learn to challenge notions intelligently. Wars are started with wrong words Mr

RTSC:
Every race in America have been told to go back home at a point in their history.
Even the mighty German people were told go back home.

The difference between those groups and Africans was that they actually went back home and develop their countries.

Now they can afford to go to america with dignity and honour.

The Diaspora was rooting for sowore, while the backward nutjobs in Nigeria were campaigning for buhari and atiku.

You can't help those that don't want help. Trump should remember that when next he asks Africans to go home.

blindjustice13:
Please view and take out time to read to the end.I know it is long. Its time we start changing our orientation

TooMuchStuff:
No modern world is developed with Islamic ideology in competition with democratic tenets.
We cannot develop together because Islam does not integrate but seeks forceful domination in any mixed society. Therefore we need to restructure or divide outrightly.

grandstar:
Most of what he wrote here is gibberish. Writings such as these leave me seething. He has a poor understanding of how things work.

Ukraine is poor despite 930,000 of people of Ukrainian American. Ukrainians going back achieves nothing.

They say a fish rots from the head. Same with countries. As long as the head can't formulate policies that will change the economy, no amount of return will change things. Africans didn't ruin their economies. Their leaders did.

Also, there are developed black countries such as the Bahamas and Barbados. There are even some respectable ones such as Botswana and the Seychelles.

Returnees can make only the amount of change they are permitted to make or know how to make. A good example is Okonjo Oweala. She tried her best during the time of Jonathan's Presidency but the weak man did not follow all her advise.

If the Europeans all went back to develop their countries, there'd be no America to go.

Italy was transformed by Italians living at home even though over 9 million millions of their country men emigrated worldwide to all parts of the world. 2% of Scots have Italian blood. Sylvester Stallone , Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and so on are either 2nd or 3rd generation Italian Americans.

The article also neglects the fact that many African economies are growing quite fast and I am sure in 25 years time, many will by unrecognizable then. If the world hasn't come to an end by then, people like this writer will eat humble pie.

franchasng:
When we talk, they say we are talking nonsense that black people are smarter than white people.

Until black Africans accept their weakness as a race and begin a honest process of finding solutions to their weakness, Africa will remain backward and joke of all races

Black Africans and all blacks must stop all the blame games black people give that it is the whiteman or western world that made them backward, then liberate yourself like the Asians.

Is it white people that are telling Buhari to remain tribalistic, myopic, and nepotistic in his leadership of Nigeria

Is it also white people or Neo-Colonialists that are telling Buhari to be silent about Fulani herdsmen his brothers destroying Nigeria's agricultural sector with their archaic cattle rearing practice and lack of respect for other Nigerians who aren't herdsmen

Is it also Neo-Colonialists that told Buhari to be appointing key government officials based on tribal and religious sentiments instead of by merit and competency without minding their tribe and religion

These are the problems black race have and I doubt it will ever be solved because if you try to solve it, they will hate you, sabotage your effort and possibly murder you with your good intentions.

Who built the conducive environments for Japanese people, for Chinese people, for American people, for British people, for Germans, for French people, for Singaporeans, for Dutch people, for Swizz people, etc

They built their conducive environments to enable their citizens to succeed by themselves, not by aliens......they coordinated themselves, coordinated their leadership and carved a beautiful nation for themselves, so they are not holding black African nations back from coordinating themselves to also build a conducive environment for their black citizens to succeed in black nations!!


Why is it that blacks only succeed and excel when they travel to whiteman's nation

Why is it that blacks only find their voice only when they travel to whiteman's nation to live and learn, why

Why is it that black people hardly excel in their home black nations

Why is it that black people only remember black activism when they travel to whiteman's nation or when they are living in whiteman's nation

Why can't black people living in black nations come together and start a black revolution to emancipate the black race from poverty, disease, undevelopment, backwardness, darkness, dark practices, inhumane practices and then launch their black activism from their black nations instead staying in whiteman's nation and be rocking shoulder with the same whiteman sheltering and providing for them, why why why

The black race have a fundamental weakness from the start of mankind, and the black race needs to accept this natural weakness first, then begin a true search for lasting solution starting from their homelands not from a whiteman's nation!

Go back to your black nation, organize your youths, enlighten them, start from grabbing leadership power to enable you and your team have enough power to change things....and when you grab the power, don't forget your mission like Buhari and other failed black leaders who forgot their promises to their nations once they get to power....and become selfish and focus on enriching themselves, their family members, close friends, close allies and few selected people....don't be like them because that is another bigger weakness of the black race - SELFISHNESS!

Black people are selfish.....they are mostly concerned about their well being and that of their immediate family members, others can go to hell!

Black people hardly think of collective growth....that is also evident on this thread where some people arguing with me will be bragging that they are more successful than some white people they see in the white nations they live....they forgot that I am not here to talk about individual monetary success but here to talk about collective national success of a race, a people which black nations have failed woefully to achieve due to their natural weakness of selfishness and self centeredness!

BLACK RACE HAVE A FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM FROM CREATION OF MANKIND, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SLAVE TRADE OR NEO-COLONIALISM, IN FACT, SLAVE TRADE AND NEO-COLONIALISM ARE BIGGER EVIDENCES THAT WHITE RACE ARE SUPERIOR TO BLACK RACE IN THINKING, INNOVATION, POWER, ETC BECAUSE IF NOT, TELL ME WHY BLACK RACE SAT IN THEIR ASSES AND ALLOWED THE WHITE RACE TO COME ALL THE WAY FROM THEIR FAR AWAY LANDS TO ATTACK THEM, CONQUER THEM, SLAVE TRADE THEM AND ALSO COLONIZE THEM FOR CENTURIES IN THEIR OWN BLACK LANDS

lilwetdick:
i love this

if nigerians are so wise, so clever and so rich, what again they love to claim, the most educated of most immigrant in the US, why arent they fixing up their wretched nation, it shows all those traits are in theory not in reality

show me one nigeria abroad that have come to developed nigeria with their so called skills and i will show you many of them whose main job is to complain and also loot the treasury when they arrive nigeria

DesChyko:
Well said.
Like a friend said "The day I gave up on Nigeria is the day they saw a young Sowore and abandoned him, choosing to fight over Atiku and Buhari instead, same old men that played huge roles in driving Nigeria to the sinkhole it's in now"

.Stokely Carmichael reminded us that West Indian countries were not built to be self-sufficient or successful but used as a sugar cane plantation. It is up to us to change Africa into a sustainable place that can trade within and negotiate fair and equal trade with the rest of the world. We cannot cry over the ways others protect their self-interest anywhere if we do not protect assets and talents at home. There is nothing wrong with loving yourself or your own people as others do, but everything wrong with self-hating and justifying their policies and insults against you

. quote author=grandstar post=80424496]Most of what he wrote here is gibberish. Writings such as these leave me seething. He has a poor understanding of how things work.

Ukraine is poor despite 930,000 of people of Ukrainian American. Ukrainians going back achieves nothing.

They say a fish rots from the head. Same with countries. As long as the head can't formulate policies that will change the economy, no amount of return will change things. Africans didn't ruin their economies. Their leaders did.

Also, there are developed black countries such as the Bahamas and Barbados. There are even some respectable ones such as Botswana and the Seychelles.

Returnees can make only the amount of change they are permitted to make or know how to make. A good example is Okonjo Oweala. She tried her best during the time of Jonathan's Presidency but the weak man did not follow all her advise.

If the Europeans all went back to develop their countries, there'd be no America to go.

Italy was transformed by Italians living at home even though over 9 million millions of their country men emigrated worldwide to all parts of the world. 2% of Scots have Italian blood. Sylvester Stallone , Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and so on are either 2nd or 3rd generation Italian Americans.

The article also neglects the fact that many African economies are growing quite fast and I am sure in 25 years time, many will by unrecognizable then. If the world hasn't come to an end by then, people like this writer will eat humble pie.