Idiots like you disgust me because you lack critical thinking skills and y’all the types that have been leading black people to slaughter for the last few centuries.
Can you walk and talk at the same time? Of course the West is being self serving. But the way African male leaders are partnering with China is screwing their people over and is nearsighted like all their past partnerships with every single other foreign nation. African male leadership need to help its citizens become self sufficient and not encouraged people living hand to mouth.
Instead most, of these a$$holes fill their pockets so they can live lavish in countries that other men have built for themselves/their women and children so they can stunt on the people they are supposed to be leading. And that’s be on par of the course for over a century.
My mom has the perfect description for the Chinese. They are like rats at night slowly nibbling at your leg and by the time you wake up your leg is gone. Their on that soft power domination track right now and becoming more and more domineering. I put solely the blame on our ‘leaders’ incompetence.
Contrary to you, I'm not disgusted by the fact that you visibly have trouble formulating practical and solution-based propositions concerning this particular subject
Everybody make mistakes, so your ad hominems are just an unfortunate display of misplaced ego. I won't hold it against you
Here is where you could have used your critical thinking skills to better use:
the fact that I denounce the Western propaganda about China's involvement in Africa doesn't imply that I believe there is no major drawback or danger about it . You projected all of that.
In fact, my post history shows that I'm well aware of the deceiving aspect of most of these Chinese aids. I talked about the mischevious characteristics of their loans' conditions several times. I said that China clearly has not Africa's best interest at heart, but first and foremost China's, obviously.
To summarize,
I've been known that. We've been known that.
Now onto what I think you fail to realize:
Africa is deep down stuck in a vicious circle. Poverty, lack of quality infrastructures, health, education, security, corruption, foreign forces pressuring the continent and meddling in our politics... You name it, we have all these issues and they reinforce each other.
What you present in your post as a solution to resolve our problem is what I call "
lazy doctor diagnostic". You take one of these issues, ie the corruption of our elites and the fact that they clearly don't have our best interest at heart, and the "solution" you propose is: "
Well, they need to stop being corrupted and help the people becoming self-sufficient".
But the problem is just that: they... are not doing that. And they have no incentive to do so, but every reasons in the world, as individualistic, selfish and capitalistic these reasons may be, to do the opposite, and as you perfectly described it: "
fill their pockets so they can live lavish in countries that other men have built for themselves/their women and children so they can stunt on the people they are supposed to be leading".
If a sick person tells you she has a habit that harms her and you tell her "
well, just stop doing that, you need to do the opposite", you do not offer a good solution and you misuse these critical thinking skills.
Now, if I try to be a
solution-oriented person, I clearly can see that African leadership has trouble leading to better living conditions in the continent. I see, also, that Western forces have a big hand up in our internal organs, and replace the leaders who don't act according to their best interests, reducing our room for maneuver even more. Consequently we have to search a solution elsewhere or wait until a miracle happens, hoping it won't be short lived.
But I'm trying to be a solution-oriented person, right? So I have to look at my assets. What do I have in my arsenal that could help me break the cycle...
... Damn, I have natural ressources! Plus I got lands. Oh, but yeah, European companies have a part of it on lock and when I go to the international markets to get some money out of the rest, I get crushed
How do I break the cycle then? Clearly I'll have to make some sacrifices if the opportunity presents itself.
...
Here comes China
An emergent power beefing with traditional Western countries to get on top. And amongst all their economic and geopolitical sparrings, there is one that is becoming more important by the minute: Africa. Representing lands for the large Chinese population. People for a Europe struggling to produce babies and finance their expensive lifestyle. Ressources for both.
Knowing that my place will probably become the theater of proxy wars in the near future, I'll be dumb to not try and take advantage of the situation.
Hoping for our leaders to build the infrastructures necessary to develop and help our people is utopic thinking like I said above. Praying for our people to get up and kill them all like some uninformed posters said in the thread when hundreds of millions are riddled with hunger and poverty and just try to survive this day and the next is also highly unrealistic.
With the conflict between China and Western countries, we have the opportunity to bypass all of that. Use their wish to have a bigger influence over here to increase our development. Push for the building of schools, hospitals and help our people get on their feet. Because I truly believe that
when this happens, and an African middle class emerges, it's a wrap.
The breakthrough will happen and the vicious cycle will collapse on itself.
It's incredibly hard to clean up the corruption in your country when you live on 2 dollars a day. But when your children go to school, learn about the world outside, and have three meals a day? The Tocqueville effect kicks in.
Tocqueville effect - Wikipedia
They won't take no more shyt from these elites, nor from European schemes, because they'll then have the means to combat it.
And there's plenty more that you can easily google about. 60 more billions have been promised by China recently, no strings attached.
But what about the crushing loans we're taking one after the other because we're dumb asf?
Well the good thing about loans and promises... is that you can renegociate them
Debt ain't nothing but a number
(putting aside major global economic catastrophy like in the Greek case
). Plenty western countries are neck deep in debt, and
they will never pay for it. Everybody knows it. It's impossible. They keep renegociating, delaying, making adjustements long term (over decades) to make it manageable.
And with an educated African people armed with their own ressources, we can do the same. Redo the contracts. Negociate. Delay. But
only if we stand on our two feet first.
Now I know that there are important issues going against China's building history in the country:
- They tend to not employ the local population which reduces the expertise transfer from them to African countries
- There is not enough investment in infrastructure enhancing our quality of life. Highways, dams, etc. contribute to the economic development but the trickle effect won't put food on everybody's table. Not in Africa. We need more of that in schools and hospitals. President Xi acknowledged itand said next investments will target it.
- and some I already listed above
But trying to go through them is a perfectly viable solution, and dare I say, way more realistic and intelligent than complaining for three other decades about our "African male leadership".
We won't get out of this without sacrificing anything. This is not fiction. This is reality. You have to give something to get something. But that's what a lot of yall don't get.
Yall don't disgust me though
I put it on the account of ignorance and lazy thinking, evils we all suffer from from time to time
We had to find other sources of investment. 
