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Many things has been said about colonialism in Africa, but there are some evils and crimes committed against indigenous people of Africa, by the European imperialists that has never been told.

While these atrocities in Africa don’t get regular mentions in international sphere, Robert Mugabe championed Land redistribution in Zimbabwe, has dominated international discuss.


In this series AfricanQuarters, in keeping with our objective, we will be unravelling some of these atrocities from the South of Africa to the North . 

Congo Genocide by Belgium King Leopold 1885 – 1908

After the Berlin Conference of 1884 the 905,000 square miles of the Belgian Congo [now the Democratic Republic of the Congo ] became the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium.

His genocidal exploitation of the territory, particularly the rubber trade, caused many deaths and much suffering. Murder and mutilation were common.

Failure to meet the rubber collection quotas was punishable by death. The Force Publique were required to provide a hand of their victims as proof when they had shot and killed someone, as it was believed that they would otherwise use the munitions for hunting food.

As a consequence, the rubber quotas were in part paid off in chopped-off hands. Sometimes the hands were collected by the soldiers of the Force Publique, sometimes by the villages themselves. There were even small wars where villages attacked neighbouring villages to gather hands, since their rubber quotas were too unrealistic to fill

Under the control of Leopold II of Belgium numerous crimes against humanity were committed upon the indigenous Africans of Central Africa.  Estimated killed: 10,000,000 The Herero and Namaqua Genocide by Germany 1904 – 1907

The Herero and Namaqua Genocide in German South-West Africa (present-day Namibia) occurred between 1904 and 1907. Eighty percent of the Herero population and 50 percent of the Nama population were killed in a brutal scorched earth campaign led by German General Lothar von Trotha. Between 24,000 and 100,000 Herero perished along with 10,000 Nama.

A copy of Trotha’s Extermination Order survives in the Botswana National Archives. The order states “every Herero, with or without a gun, with or without cattle, will be shot.

I will no longer accept women or children, I will drive them back to their people [to die in the desert] or let them be shot at.” Olusoga and Erichsen write: “It is an almost unique document: an explicit, written declaration of intent to commit genocide”.

These mass killings were named as the first example of a 20th-century genocide in the 1985 Whitaker Report, commissioned but never adopted by the now defunct United Nations subcommittee ECOSOC

https://www.Africanquarters.com/forgotten-european-attrocities-in-africa

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#1 The United States


Ah, good news US fellas! You enjoy the highest level of disposable income! No doubt, the United States is the most powerful country in the world. The US has abundant natural resources; it’s the largest importer of goods and the second largest exporter in the world. Americans receive $41,355 annually after the average 31.6% tax is deducted, which is more or less the same as in Canada. However, in the US many people have no health insurance. In fact, the US ranks first for health care expenditure but last for coverage. And there’s no national paid parental leave. And… well, I guess I shouldn’t spoil it for you. Let’s just be happy with the results!

#2 Luxembourg

If Bank Of America, Citibank, and Chase were a country, it would be Luxembourg. Luxembourg is more or less the financial center of Europe. Once the primary provider of steel in Europe, its vast exports market now includes chemicals, rubbers, and industrial machinery, and of course financial services. The average income after taxes in Luxembourg is $38,951 per year, but there is a 37.7% tax wedge, which provides all of its citizens with all that good stuff I’ve mentioned before.

#3 Norway

Norway is one of the wealthiest nations in terms of natural resources including oil, hydropower, fishing, and minerals. Like Sweden, Norway has universal health care and higher education, but this, of course, comes at a price: Norwegians give up slightly more than 37% of their wages. Still, at the end they receive $33,492 annually. But what they give up in taxes, they make up for in overall free time. The average weekly number of hours spent on paid work in Norway is 33.4hrs

#4 Switzerland

Switzerland ranks high in several metrics of national performance, including government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic competitiveness, and human development. No wonder the country finished third in the OECD life-satisfaction study. Switzerland’s manufacturing sector is the most vital and robust in all of Europe. It produces healthcare and pharmaceutical goods, specialist chemicals, precision measuring instruments and musical instruments. Yeah, think of it as Detroit before Detroit went tits up. Switzerland’s annual disposable income is $33,491, and they work around 35 hours weekly.

#5 Australia

Another one of those pesky socialist democracies. Australia has one of the most robust economies in the world and is a huge exporter of foodstuff as well as oil and minerals, and it imports relatively few goods. In terms of average wealth, Australia ranked second in the world after Switzerland in 2013. Australia’s average disposable income is $31,588 per year with a tax rate of around 27,7%, which, of course, goes to making sure its citizens are healthy and well educated. Oh, and on an average, Australians work 36 hours per week.

#6 Germany

Although Germany didn’t make it to the top on our list, it is the first place winner in several other aspects. For example, Germany is the largest and most powerful national economy in Europe! However, Germany is also the first regarding the amount of taxes deducted from its citizens‘ income with 49.8%. Almost half! Can you believe? However, Germany has the world’s oldest universal health care system, so in return, people receive free health care and education on all levels. Oh, I almost forgot to mention, Germans‘ annual disposable income is $31,252. Not bad!

#7 Austria

Would you have thought this Central European country with its beautiful landscapes and adventurous history has the 12th highest GDP per capita in the world? Well, yes, Austria has a highly developed industry, besides, the most important part of the national economy is its international tourism, which accounts for almost 9% of the Austrian gross domestic product. People get (after taxes) an average $31,173 salary, which is not bad considering that 49.4% is taken away as income tax and social security contributions. This amount, of course, covers universal health care and higher education.

#8 Canada

Oh, Canada, how Americans love and slightly distrust you. Canada is Wealthy with a capital W. The U.S.’s neighbors to the north possess the third largest oil reserve in the world just behind Venezuela and Saudi Arabia (which makes you wonder why America imports so much of its oil from Saudi Arabia…). The country is also rich in zinc, uranium, gold, nickel, aluminum, and the Canadian Prairies are one of the most important global producers of wheat, canola, and other grains. The average annual disposable income of the Canadian fellows is around $29,365 with a tax rate around 31%. That 31%, of course, pays for universal health care and public education. And, Canada’s average work week is around 36 hours.

#9 Sweden

Based on World Bank data, this beautiful scandinavian kingdom is the sixth richest country in the world in terms of GDP per capita. Sweden is an export-oriented mixed economy: timber, hydropower and iron ore constitute the resource base of the economy with a heavy emphasis on foreign trade. Sweden’s engineering sector accounts for 50% of output and exports. This socialist democracy (of which you’re actually going to see quite a few on this list) maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides universal health care and tertiary education for its citizens. In return, people have to give up 42.4% of their income, but on the average they still receive $29,185 a year.

Do you ever wonder which country pays its workers the highest salary? Have you ever thought that you’re not truly being paid what you’re worth? Let’s take a quick look at the top 10 countries where people enjoy the highest level of disposable income. What is disposable income? It’s the amount of money that a household gains each year after taxes and transfers, so it basically represents the money available to a household for spending on goods or services. These averages are based on the OECD research calculated for single workers without children. Do you think your country is on the list? Let’s find out!

http://topmensmagazine.com/top-10-countries-with-the-highest-salaries/

#10 France

Well, the infamously discontent French made it to the top 10 list! France is ranked the world’s seventh largest economies. To explain why the French per capita GDP is lower than that of the United States, the economist Paul Krugman stated that “French workers are roughly as productive as US workers”, but that the French have allegedly a lower workforce participation rate and “when they work, they work fewer hours”. That may be due to the 35-hour workweek law introduced in 1999. By the way, the French receive $28,799 a year after all taxes, which are 49.4% on the average. This is the second largest tax wedge across the OECD countries.

Life is in phases and men are in sizes

They should have brought in professionals to get it alive and a special dam built for it instead of adding to the number already on extinct.

It's a pity

Tolexander:
source?

Done sir. I was just carried away by the good news

"A prophet has no honour in his own land"... The book of Peace.
If it were to be in Nigeria, they will keep playing politics especially because of the region he comes from until this global vision would die. Now that this vision has come to pass, Nigeria is taking the glory, not the region. And somebody would tell me that Buhari is only appointing " Competent" people to his administration as if "Competence" is an exclusive reserve of any region. Even my once-respected Pat Utomi also supports this barbaric theory. From news making rounds for a while now, we can now see the type of houses these proverbial "rejected stones" are now building.

My point is this:
Yorubas are good Administrators because they read a lot
Igbos are good inventors because they read & dare a lot
So, why concentrate key appointments made so far on one region and cite "competence" for the reason?

A Nigerian born scientist, Samuel Achilefu, has won the prestigious St. Louis Award for 2014 for creating cancer-visualizing glasses.

Dr. Achilefu, a professor of radiology and biomedical engineering, and his team developed the imaging technology in cancer diagnosis into a wearable night vision-like goggles so surgeons could see the cancer cells while operating.
“They basically have to operate in the dark,” Bloomberg Businessweek quoted Dr. Achilefu, 52, as saying.
“I thought, what if we create something that let’s you see things that aren’t available to the ordinary human eye.”
Dr. Achilefu won a scholarship from the French government to study at the University of Nancy, according to St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a regional newspaper in St. Louis, U.S., and is the 87th person to receive the annual award since it was established in 1931.

Married with two young children, Dr. Achilefu moved to St. Louis after he was hired by Mallinckrodt to start a new research department.
“Our efforts start with two words: ‘What if?'” Dr. Achilefu said during his acceptance speech.
“These words may sound simple, but they embody the belief that each person has the potential to make a difference, if only he or she can take the time to understand the problem.”
According to Bloomberg, the researchers’ technology requires two steps: First, surgeons inject a tiny quantity of an infrared fluorescent marker into the patient’s bloodstream. The peptides contained in the marker enables it to locate cancer cells and buries itself inside.

After the tracer flows through a patient’s body and clears from non-cancerous tissue – which lasts about four hours – the operation would begin. Wearing the goggle, the doctor can inspect tumours under an infra red light that reacts with the dye, causing cancer cells to glow from within.
This month, the goggles have been used on humans for the first time by surgeons at the Washington University School of Medicine.

Four patients suffering from breast cancer and over two dozen patients with melanoma or liver cancer have been operated on using the goggles since they were developed.
“The goggles function fantastically,” says Ryan Fields, a surgical oncologist who is collaborating with Dr. Achilefu to improve on the technology.

“They allow us to see the cells in real time, which is critical. Because the marker has not yet been FDA-approved, doctors are currently using a different, somewhat inferior marker that also reacts with infrared light.”
Julie Margenthaler, a breast cancer surgeon, says tens of thousands of women who had had breast cancer lumpectomies go back for second operations every year because of the inability to see the microscopic extent of the tumours.
“Imagine what it would mean if these glasses eliminated the need for follow-up surgery and the associated pain, inconvenience and anxiety.”

Dr. Achilefu and his team began work in 2012 after they received $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Before then, they had been working on a lean budget provided by the Department of Defence’s Breast Cancer Research Program.

After it was developed, the team spent years testing the technology on mice, rats, and rabbits to confirm the efficacy of the goggles.
“Nobody would believe us until we showed that the goggles work,” Dr. Achilefu says.
The Food and Drug Administration are still reviewing the goggles and a related dye Dr. Achilefu and his co-researchers developed, according to Washington University in St. Louis, a St. Louis based journal.
Dr. Achilefu says he intends to keep Washington University as the primary centre for clinical trials to evaluate the technology in patients.

“Making a difference in society should be the goal of everybody,” Dr. Achilefu

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/features-and-interviews/185477-nigerian-born-scientist-wins-award-for-his-cancer-seeing-glasses.html

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I stumbled on this as I was going through my Facebook page this morning. What do you guys think?

HVILLE:
after taking a good look at the pic with my roof guy, we came to the conclusion that it's a false roof not a really roof there is pent house and relaxation or view area that makes up the roof, the water and rain are channel through a careful constructed drain around the pent house to prevent from Lodging or demanding d decking on the second floor,the building is a two storey building not one, design can be reproduce here but it's going to had to cost of construction, the other way is to remove the penthouse area and cover it with a nice roofing sheet that will save some money,
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We do not need a two-storey building. All we need has been defined on page one. We do not also need any pent house. Let it just be a normal one storey duplex but with this same design and different roofing entirely. We need to see the sample of the roofing any designer proposes. We appreciate your efforts thus far!

eghosajohnny:
Doing all the checking I have made and concluded this figures to what will be needed to delivering this project afterall its in nigeria and its nothing more than a 6bdrm duplex all I did was see the building as a normal building and not the picture we are seeing here and calculatively a duplex of 6bdrm will not more than 22m and adding to it based on the specification of standard materials I presume jacuzzi and other things that are not seen to balance the cost to 25m,going further to the pool at 2.5m,fountain at 600k,compound design at 2.8m,fence 1.6m,gate 250k.

All this I did and putting all together for someone to handle wouldn't take more 27-28m and although I don't know much abt afikpo but once I need any assistance in getting materials to site I will to powerline tipper garage and I will get material cheap

Commendable effort.
Copied for onward processing/study/consideration.
As for the materials and other things you raised about Afikpo, itz a big town where you can get virtually everything. Whatever can't be found there can be gotten from the State capital which is just about one hour drive or there about and transport about N300 as it were!

EgunMogaji:
An estimate, from a seasoned house builder, doesn't have to be conservative or outrageous.

An estimate is different from a quote.

You may be right!

snakebeat:
Anyone can give u a conservative or an outrageous estimate, there are no dimensions on 3d, this project is somewhat big. Workable estimate can only be gotten when the arc & struct. Drawings are done. a Qs or an experienced blder or civil engr. Can take the estimate. So I suggest u contact a land surv. & an architect. visit any of the architectural thread & discussed with them. Thereafter an arc, blder, or engr. Will take it up from there, then practical construction cost can be discussed depending on ur finishes taste..

If the area is waterlogged, then a soil test must be done to determine the type of foundation, but whether waterlogged or not, it's always safer to test the soil, since it's a storey building...

Copied sir.

EgunMogaji:
So you were able to come up with an estimate

Free my guy jorh

HVILLE:
before we start talking cost of construction, a good arc is needed to reproduce what you want so we can know total area the building is going to cover and total length and breathe of each rooms other details needed
60k to 90k per sqm will idea what cost of construction when the arc and structural finish with there design, it can take like 4 to 6month to complete
Has for the roof I have sent the design to my roof man to take a look at it and come up with something realistic

I think you are close to speaking my language! I will be awaiting the roof sample

eghosajohnny:
First of all the roof type in india would not be advisable cos of our hot weather and the other one is where in ebonyi state are you building this edifice cos I have built there as at last year and I know the area well enough cos the farther the location the higher the cost of getting materials to site,which of the areas below is the plots location.

Ezangbo,abakiliki,nwofe,ishike this are close areas to town and only abakiliki is where materials are cheap so if yoi state the location then the lump total will be stated but the breadown will be sent your mail

U can call 07031886484,07014709098

Thanks. It's Afikpo! Hope that helps out

HVILLE:
Not at all lot of important information is missing like, size in length and breathe in Figure, soil test report we just can't build on land that we don't know soil structure and so many things to consider but let me give rough estimate 25million upward the figure can be more depending on the can of finishing you want and has for the roof I think is better you remodel it little bit to better design and cheaper finishing but if you want this design it can be work on, you can call 08056887674 or 568f9c24

Thanks for the insight. The land is 100 X 200 (2 plots of land). The soil is standard AGL. Looking at the description of the house I gave up there and the supposed facilities, I think a professional designer/builder should be able to come up with a workable estimate. As for the roof, I think Vicmoore has given me a sound backstage insight. What do you think you can do to the roof to amend it? Any pictures to support the type of roof you propose for us?
We are only interested in getting someone who can give us that exact design, including all of our descriptions with professional and approved estimates

EgunMogaji:
Any competent builder should be able to give you an idea but welcome to Nairaland where artisans don't know about ranges and wants you to call them.

Someone should be able to say that I can build this house for N20 - N30 IF the soil and land is standard.

If I were building this house there's only one builder I would consider but I doubt that he builds outside of Lagos.

I understand the angle you are coming from. I also think the guy was right to demand sufficient information. Thanks for your contribution

HVILLE:
Building a house can be easy and hard depend on the process followed. Lot of technical support is needed has this very early stage, stage 1,,,arc drawing and structural drawing,mechanical and electrical drawing,
Stage 2, soil test, most time is the soil test report that we use in structural drawing that helps to know the can of Foundation and other structure details needed
When all this are in place we can now talk of money what is total cost of construction. You can call me if you want for more details, 08056887674 staybless

Thanks for your contribution. Can't you make do with the information provided above? Isn't it that sufficient?

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Noted sir