never seen a chinese guy wit a black girl IRL
Optimism has not saved africa from the euros and it is bit going to save africa from the chinese. This coupling going on I don't like it.Chinese minded blasians will be dealt with if they present themselves as a threat to the system. Not unlike minorities in the US...or at least I hope
Truth be told I've got my fears too, I'm just trynna stay optimistic breh.
YES because many are naive and have repeated the same mistake so many timez before.Different times and very different circumstances between the two "invasions". Unless you're saying that Africans are doomed to repeat history regardless, in which case I guess that's just how you see us breh. And that's cool too.
It's honorable to fight but to fight aimlessly for the sake of the struggle is stupid.I don't really know the situation in Libya currently, but I know that the real blacks in Mauritania are the minority. And yet they're still trying to fight for their rights out there. Hopefully with the internet the international pressure for human rights will increase over there but I honestly don't know how it's gonna play out...but I do know that the blacks will never give up the fight for what's theirs by right, and I salute that.
But ultimately I can't deny that you and I share the same fear: that African leaders may be too lax with controlling the chinese movements in our homelands. Thus putting us in round number three of the fukkery.
It's just that this time I believe things won't be so easy for the other side; because we've literally got no reason to not stop the leap-ish frog when we can already see it gaining life.
As an African I've gotta have faith.
Breh, this is trying to get everyone against China's investment in Africa. China has money, American has guns. It's a battle of the superpowers.
I somewhat agree. You can't expect any superpower to not have interaction with a resource rich and incredibly dependent Africa. African leaders need to be smart and think in long terms. There needs to be foresight on China's long term agenda when it comes to investing in the continent.
The Chinese think in terms of decades, perhaps centuries. What they are doing now is planting the seeds and meticulously waiting for blossom.
It's quite interesting seeing the hidden power struggle taking place on the continent right now. The United States is building military stations ALL over Africa and the Chinese are building bridges, roads and vital infrastructure that stimulate economic growth. Both powers have long term agendas for the continent. It's essentially the U.S. and USSR during the cold war all over again.
Well said...but some of these posters don't want to hear you though. They think china is just waltzing in the continent with no plsn past economic development.I somewhat agree. You can't expect any superpower to not have interaction with a resource rich and incredibly dependent Africa. African leaders need to be smart and think in long terms. There needs to be foresight on China's long term agenda when it comes to investing in the continent.
The Chinese think in terms of decades, perhaps centuries. What they are doing now is planting the seeds and meticulously waiting for blossom.
It's quite interesting seeing the hidden power struggle taking place on the continent right now. The United States is building military stations ALL over Africa and the Chinese are building bridges, roads and vital infrastructure that stimulate economic growth. Both powers have long term agendas for the continent. It's essentially the U.S. and USSR during the cold war all over again.
Well said...but some of these posters don't want to hear you though. They think china is just waltzing in the continent with no plsn past economic development.
Optimism has not saved africa from the euros and it is bit going to save africa from the chinese. This coupling going on I don't like it.
YES because many are naive and have repeated the same mistake so many timez before.
It's honorable to fight but to fight aimlessly for the sake of the struggle is stupid.
That's what I was pointing out in the thread when I eas being consistently bombasted.
My faith om african leadership is at level 0...I choose pragmatism, fact as well as empirical evidence. Africam leadership has left much to be desired and continues to do so.
The only thing that csn change this wave is for the population to mobilize itself to impose what they will not accept/tolerate by leaders.
Well laid out points.
Optimism by itself certainly makes for a poor dish where achieving one's goal is concerned BUT without optimism the fight for independence in the whole of the continent would've been impossible. Before pragmatism there ought to be optimism, men fight for what they dream and dreams are born of hope/optimism aka the ability to have the faith that things can one day be different.
Many are naive but in this particular decade naiveté about neo-colonization is harder to maintain because information is available even to those that aren't quite looking for it. This isn't the days when tribes/kingdoms were so insulated from one another that they failed to get together for a common cause. There are many Africans very familiar with the term "neo-colonialism" and we can thank radio, TV and the internet for that. We are not exactly the deers caught in the headlights that our ancestors were before.
My bad if my argument came off as urging Africans to fight without an aim because I was actually parting from the principle that our aims are much clearer than they've ever been before. I was appealing to the human nature to fight against oppression, the same nature that got us out of colonialism in the first place. It took time but we made it, and no one can take that away from any African. We are not the losers that western media try to make us out to be, just because we started late in the road to development.
Where does pragmatism and empirical evidence come from? Education, and a lot of Africans are educating themselves nowadays at a rate never before seen. Besides those in the diaspora we've got many universities within the continent educating millions of Africans so that we can rely more and more on our own strength...it's just going to take time and the help of outside sovereign nations because quite simply we can't do it all on our own. That's our pragmatism at play.
Well laid out points.