Why is Africa poor despite diamonds?
When God created humanity, he bestowed upon us the blessing of creation- a capability observed in no other creature.
We are born to create. We turned the tree to wood and make fire. We turned the wood into houses. Chairs, tables, furnitures…..
The whole economic process is characterized by utilizing the power of creation to improve material life. The issues of distributing wealth, manipulating people's desires, the usage of money as a method of exchange all derive from the above activity.
Africa is not blessed by her diamonds- she is cursed by them. Because only few in any society use their creative gift properly, most spend their lives chasing things that are readily available to them. Honey attracts lots of bees.
A fight would break out among men, and the strongest takes the reward. Since Africans never had adequate time in experimenting self-governance under a modern society, there are no rules regulating those fights. When elephants fight, it is the grass which is trampled upon.
Due to the absence of regulation, the African mode of governance becomes a “hyena system". The biggest hyena feeds upon almost all the meat, and throws an ear to his son. The son would scavenge upon the leftover, and gives a leftover-of-a-leftover to his son.
The rest of the population does not matter- they would be good beggars. They would continue munching grass.
This is not an environment where man can utilize his creative capacity- which can do wonders when favoured by the ebbs and flows of history. Africa's historical situation, her initial sets of conditions, and the system put in place all killed her capacity to produce.
Africa is poor because she isn't producing anything. She is beaten in the game of production. But she is also knocked out at the art of manipulating production through money- an art which the West has supreme command over. Africa is a loser……that is why she is poor.
I think that free market and democracy would not help Africa. Africans require a strong, efficient government structure which can orient supply and demand patterns towards the production of capital goods, and make most use of the resource the continent has by rejecting exploitation.
Sadly, trying to establish different sets of conditions would most probably lead to a face-off with the West- a confrontation which already led to the loss of Thomas Sankara.
We are born to create. We turned the tree to wood and make fire. We turned the wood into houses. Chairs, tables, furnitures…..
The whole economic process is characterized by utilizing the power of creation to improve material life. The issues of distributing wealth, manipulating people's desires, the usage of money as a method of exchange all derive from the above activity.
A fight would break out among men, and the strongest takes the reward. Since Africans never had adequate time in experimenting self-governance under a modern society, there are no rules regulating those fights. When elephants fight, it is the grass which is trampled upon.
Due to the absence of regulation, the African mode of governance becomes a “hyena system". The biggest hyena feeds upon almost all the meat, and throws an ear to his son. The son would scavenge upon the leftover, and gives a leftover-of-a-leftover to his son.
The rest of the population does not matter- they would be good beggars. They would continue munching grass.
This is not an environment where man can utilize his creative capacity- which can do wonders when favoured by the ebbs and flows of history. Africa's historical situation, her initial sets of conditions, and the system put in place all killed her capacity to produce.
Africa is poor because she isn't producing anything. She is beaten in the game of production. But she is also knocked out at the art of manipulating production through money- an art which the West has supreme command over. Africa is a loser……that is why she is poor.
I think that free market and democracy would not help Africa. Africans require a strong, efficient government structure which can orient supply and demand patterns towards the production of capital goods, and make most use of the resource the continent has by rejecting exploitation.
Sadly, trying to establish different sets of conditions would most probably lead to a face-off with the West- a confrontation which already led to the loss of Thomas Sankara.
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