"If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. If you teach a man to fish, he will eat for a life time." Literally an ancient proverb and people still haven't caught on. Some people...
SO WE NEED A STRONG MERCILESS REGIEME THAT PUMP OUT HIGHLY NATIONALISTIC PROPAGANDA WHILE SOFTENING THE CITIZENS WITH MASSIVE AMOUNT OF LUXURY CONSUMER PRODUCTS!!!!!!
I have some experience with aide programs in Afghanistan. The people who designed these project have no real intention of helping the people. Its more of a symbolic gesture to pacify the people at home and add some feel good stories to the news cycle. They don't measure success by the results of the work like people employed, quality of life increased, needs of the people met,etc., but by how much money they spent in the process. (Spend baby, spend!) Since nobody at home really pays attention to places like Afghanistan, or Africa they can make public declarations of success without anyone asking any tough insightful questions.
@SandboxArrow God bless you though. Look at you trying to be an edge lord that's adorable. Anyhow despite our shortcomings we have a soul. Unlike you friend. But come to Jesus he might help you find peace okay 😊
***** Yes, it's a vicious circle. In my opinion the priority should be 1. Education and literacy and 2. Political stability. A poor but literate workforce under a stable environment is sure to draw in massive inflows of business investment which, if properly harnessed and regulated, can be the needed impulse for countries to take off development-wise, maybe a bit like the Asian "Tigers". Many African countries have a large, young and inexpensive workforce and are full of resources so there is no reason the continent should be cursed to perpetuity.
***** How about this as a solution to their problems. Rathe than giving food and water to the people of africa, why dont you offer economic aid to the governments in africa, who in return most reform to more democratic practices? Also how about the creation of businesses with the aid money, a billion dollars goes much futher in africa than when you spend it on food. This makes the countries industrialize much faster, and it allows africans to have wealth themselves. Thus solving half of their problems. Not to mention the much higher tax incomes allow the governments to be able to build infrastracture
Africa has enough wind energy to power the whole continent. TheCongo river alone has enough energy to power the continent. Yet there are still some villages that don't have needs to basic electricity.
th-cam.com/video/_YS_cLaHdwY/w-d-xo.html You keep saying things about the government of Africa, but the problem comes outside of Africa like the USA and Europeans governments that want to get rid off great leaders and put puppets
@@Charles-hy6gp yes I know and great video recommendations. Most African presidents are puppets for the US , China, EU. Especially were I come from in Uganda. Museveni invades Somalia, Central African Republic, and Congo for the US and China etc. He has rigged our elections Ugandans no longer have any rights or freedoms.
jivenesspie yes, leave Africa alone including having western soldiers there killing and raping, including stopping stealing the natural resources and including stopping interfering in their politics and killing any African president who refuses to give resources to western countries. Then Africa can develop.
jivenesspie You think dictators and famine disappears on its own? Maybe. The US escaped monarchy, Europe went from widespread poverty to widespread middle-class. But why?
we can save our damn selves! Get rid of the french colonial influence in Africa and cut all of the awful overloaded contracts that countries secretly keep and let African market forces shape Africa. Empower our youth, teach technology, let the Girl Child be free to complete school and teach people a skill they can work with. Either way, let us sink or swim on our own.
@@sorzin2289 France by the admission of its own leadership over thw past 60 years is cognizant of the fact that its relationship with Afrika is existential. They would slide to the status of a 3rd world country without it's continued theft and wealth transfer of hundreds of billions of euros from the annual earnings of 14 Afrikan states that are effectively French neo colonies. Scheme is known as. " the "French Colonial Tax" and has gone on for decades. Billions that should be used to develop those respective societies instead going to make a few wealthy Frenchmen wealthier. There can be no serious talk about giving Afrika ANY aid talking billion while the continent is subject to capital flight to the tune of trillions. Best assistance? Stop meddling, stop pushing underdevelopment policies and culture war. Save the money to feed and develop your own societies.
Because aid to Africa is never out of the goodness of anyone's time hearts, it's because there's always something to gain. Aid is used tactically by other nations to establish infrastructure that aids other nations.
It is out of the goodness of alot of peoples hearts that they wanna help Africa but its not that easy...There is no reasonable economic growth and occur without political stability. Another problem is the different tribes in Africa. Althrough some tribes are closer to each other but most of them have completely different tradition and language but are boxed up in a country. People have spent more time fighting than developing, many have died in the hands of leaders who want to be like the king of old whose wishes were absolute these are some of the reason i feel Africa is still backwards.
MrAsap2000as I can tell by this very comment you have a very low level or education on african history, so you go to dumbfuck racial essentialism, you can’t in good faith compare Korea to Sub Saharan African countries who are still facing neocolonialism to this day from countries like France and China.
@MrAsap2000as Asian countries were successful because they didn't have their leaders being assassinated every few years for not wanting to play ball with the french or the americans. Read "economic hit man" and it will explain why the third world still exists in 2020
The problem is people is often too short sighted. just left africa alone and lets its rebuild itself. Foreign aids only help the local ditactor and make the place poorer. I agree with aj only for this time
@@jenniferhaynes8625 prob some help like giving them foreign advisor to manage reconstruction and stuff, but direct donation is a no good way and only exacerbate the problem. yeah few will die but less suffering in future. those early death are just way of balancing with how the people live there. while it's cruel it's a much better way to solve it
Dear, the problem are not the foreigners. The problem are us, the africans. Fix the leadership in your country, problem solved. Or take matters in your own hands and become yourself a leader. Not sure you would change anything. “Die a hero or wait till you become the villain”.
@@jenniferhaynes8625 they suvived for thousands of years until certain people showed up. Western culture is not universal. Their culture developed thanks to their geography. You can't export it everywhere. Western culture might make you "rich" but not happy or healthy.
The problem with Sub-Saharan Africa is that it depends entirely on other countries, this discourages investment and development and makes them even more dependent on foreign assistance, it's a downward spiral...
When westerners go to African countries to "volunteer", they're actually taking jobs from the local people. I think that's one of the reasons why many people in Africa are unemployed. I went to Senegal to visit relatives, and you wouldn't believe how many foreigners were working at the schools and hospitals near the village. My cousin is a college-educated and qualified nurse. But when she went to look for a job at a hospital, the director told her that they had to give spots to the American people who came to volunteer. Fortunately, she has a job now. But it took her nearly a year because many spots at the hospitals were taken by western nurses. Most of the foreigners couldn't even speak Wolof or French (the local languages of the area). I'm sure most of them had good intentions, but all they really did was take jobs away from the locals.
@@Shavarmaisvegetarian when the heck are you talking about? There are many educated people in Africa. I've travelled a bit and I can tell you that most people wherever you go just have basic education but they have so brainwashed that they think they are more than that. Even in India, a country with more people than all the 55 African countries, the majority are uneducated but they think otherwise because of all that propaganda.
Why is Africa still in poverty? Answer: Their culture. You could give these countries all the money in the world but they will eventually hurt themselves because of their culture. Their government also is affected by their culture and they just keep screwing themselves over.
Very true. Tribalism has always been our way of life and our culture. By forcing Civlization onto us, your not making sense, your just speaking a whole different language.
I am from Eritrea but my Country doesn't expect aid if you don't know Africa don't take like that again please because you guys you don't the all Africa
It's also worth mentioning when certain nations refuse foreign aid with the hope of building their own sustainable economy they get crushed by sanctions.
Africa is rich and it's not in poverty, How can they be poor but rich in land and resources, money doesn't make one rich the sensibility of learning to survive makes one wealthy like a plant needing nourishment. A tribe doesn't need money to survive but if they lived in the city hears what they would do, they would all work together and form a unity to come out of poverty, basically the mind is already wealthy and without it guiding others one couldn't even gain the will needed to climb a high mountain for a glowing prize at the top, wealth comes in all forms, some seek richness in love, self love, food, life, family, the thought of world peace, art, science..... wealth all comes down to the individuals perception but we all have greatness implanted into or great minds and with it we can accomplish anything that we put or minds to no matter what, where there's a will there's always a way, Why isn't there more stories about how rich Africans became rich, they became rich because they looked outside the box and realized that poverty is of the mind but the will to survive no matter what is of the GOD in all. ( For this vary reason JOB never gave up in the bible ) We are the designers of the cosmos, if walt disney never created disney world wold it ever had been still thriving today, if mlk jr. never made his speech would be less free, if Moses never led his people out of Egypt would his people still not be free. God the gift is already in you, yo are already the gift, wanting more like christmas presents or materiazed things because you are already the gift of life ( the gift of the most high God ) now that we all realize that we have a special gift of conscuiusness ( life force energy ) it's what every we choose to do with that energy that makes us wealthy, that's what the old saying we all are born rich in Gods eyes come from.
this is all about rich people feeling good about themselves and what they did than actually saving other people. Like the old saying goes about teaching a person to fish and feeding him for life.
I don't think people understand. He said "Foreign aid alone has never transformed a poor country into a rich country." meaning that you need more than just simple aid to become prosperous. For example my country Denmark made Kanslergadeforliget, which together with "foreign aid" made us a developed country.
All lies: 1) Africa does have not warlords 2) Africa is the richest in natural resources 3) Africa is very free and has a lot of democracies 4) Rwanda's government as the most female parliamentarians in the world so no the women are not being maltreated 5) Watch a video about Lagos (African New York(or even better))
Africa is poor by nature. Mostly bad soil, unclean drinking water, diseases that inhibit large numbers of cattle and so on. So the very basis for a strong civilization is barely there. Therefor Africas poverty is intrinsic and mankind is eons away from being able to afford the kind of terraforming etc. that is needed to make Africa a good host for civilization.
This basic concept also applies to our poor people. Giving people money who don't know how to properly use it for their future always causes this. Without proper education and a willingness to follow through, social security always has the same result, more poor people than before.
So much diversity within sub Saharan Africa, U can never do unless people themselves change.. Give them money health whatever, they will always ending up misusing it..
Africa does not need foreign aid. I am sick and tired of seeing Africans living on the charity of other nations, foreign celebrities and corporations. What we need are functioning governments that provide for the people and use their resources to raise the standard of living of the general population. AFRICANS MUST SOLVE AFRICAN PROBLEMS. NOT FOREIGNERS.
1:14 africa does not make up 1/3 of the world's poor in fact it is much worse. They make up 2/3 of the worlds poor. Do not underestimate the poverty in africa.
This is ridiculous. 2.3 trillion over 60 years sounds like a lot. But, it only amounts to 40 dollars per person per year. Absurd. Believe it or not, 10 cents a day per person is not enough to dramatically change an entire continent. While there are huge problems in Africa, and their are problems with poorly run aid programs, it doesn't mean that aid has failed. Also, how could shoe makers be going out of business if these kids didn't have shoes to begin with? Aren't there now more shoes to repair? I am sure the shoe repairman loves repairing Tom's shoes. Providing medical facilities is a good thing. Everything has side effects. Drugs have side effects, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't take life saving medication. I am sure the treatment of diseases was much better than the excess trash and the shanty towns that popped up. OTHERWISE the people wouldn't have gone there for treatment. My head hurts watching this.
Josh gIf they make two dollars a day that is enough to boost there income 5 percent. It is not a lot. 2 dollars a day is enough to put one in poverty. 2.10 is still enough to be in poverty. Imagine what the ebola epidemic would have been like if there were no hospitals. I agree we need to ask Africa what it needs. However large projects such as key infrastructure, hospitals, and schools make the world a better place.
Luke Seefeldt are you saying the West should give up it's own problems to fix Africa's. They need to git gud. And the west and China (can't forget China) needs to leave them alone. The British was once a poor pathetic island everyone invaded for fun. many of their ppl didn't have shoes or food no one really helped them they just got resourceful... Improvise adapt overcome aka git gud
Enter Ur Name Here I'm talking about the time after Roman occupation and during enslavement by the Mormons (aka the french) during this period they were alot of poor British all the way to the industrial era. So no the country wasn't born with fat pockets, they had to git gud
One approach would be to look at how countries have recently substantially reduced their own extreme poverty. China and India, for example. How did they do that? What prevents Africa from doing the same? China and India make things that people want to buy at affordable prices and then engage in international trade to sell those goods. Then they use that money to improve their societies. Some countries in Africa have started to do that. Others perhaps could follow.
What is stopping Africa is the same people who drew random lines on a map that divided the rich continent (resource wise) into small European colonies. In efforts to benefit the oppressor and not in consideration of the people who live on the land. Many places deemed "first world" countries have a major role to play in why the continent is perceived the way it is today as poor and destitute. If you really think to yourself, how is the continent with the most abundance in natural resources deemed as the poorest? Its because other groups of people cant seem to take their hands out of Africans' pockets, and even worst the corrupt leaders installed by the colonizers after they leave just further drives the oppression.
Well the simple reason is corruption 🥴 I'll explain why In order to run a industry you need electricity a lot of it you need to build roads ports infrastructures etc etc and guess what past attempt of doing just that hasn't worked do you know why? Africa is poor because it's politics. Thank you 😄
Africa is rich and it's not in poverty, How can they be poor but rich in land and resources, money doesn't make one rich the sensibility of learning to survive makes one wealthy like a plant needing nourishment. A tribe doesn't need money to survive but if they lived in the city hears what they would do, they would all work together and form a unity to come out of poverty, basically the mind is already wealthy and without it guiding others one couldn't even gain the will needed to climb a high mountain for a glowing prize at the top, wealth comes in all forms, some seek richness in love, self love, food, life, family, the thought of world peace, art, science..... wealth all comes down to the individuals perception but we all have greatness implanted into or great minds and with it we can accomplish anything that we put or minds to no matter what, where there's a will there's always a way, Why isn't there more stories about how rich Africans became rich, they became rich because they looked outside the box and realized that poverty is of the mind but the will to survive no matter what is of the GOD in all. ( For this vary reason JOB never gave up in the bible ) We are the designers of the cosmos, if walt disney never created disney world wold it ever had been still thriving today, if mlk jr. never made his speech would be less free, if Moses never led his people out of Egypt would his people still not be free. God the gift is already in you, yo are already the gift, wanting more like christmas presents or materiazed things because you are already the gift of life ( the gift of the most high God ) now that we all realize that we have a special gift of conscuiusness ( life force energy ) it's what every we choose to do with that energy that makes us wealthy, that's what the old saying we all are born rich in Gods eyes come from.
And Italy is going through a huge financial crisis at this point. Foreign aid alone does not help. Heck, the allies rebuild Germany and Japan. In the 1950s, debts of Germany were forgiven. Wiped out. They can do the same to all the African countries but they won't.
nytehawx "And Italy is going through a huge financial crisis at this point." Which isn't really of any relevance. Despite the "crisis" Italy still is one of the richest countries in the word and it _was_ transformed into that by Marshall aid. What happens 60 odd years after that does nothing to alter that fact. I'm all for debt forgiveness b.t.w. I'm just saying that there is at least one case which demonstrates the opposite of what is claimed at the end.
Lukas That's explained by the fact that the Marshall Plan involved not throwing red cents at poor locals just to feel good about it, but a comprehensive plan for reconstruction and development, to be carried out by relatively responsible and transparent governments. In other words, the exact opposite of the Africa policies, where the strategy since at least a century is to prop up or rely on horrible brutal and corrupt regimes to deplete countries of their natural wealth, and then sending some bags with USAID stamped on it when a journalist happens to be lying around so that we can feel good about it. And then again that "aid" is often conditioned to economic measures like unfair so-called "free trade agreements" that result in wiping out what little business sector there was in the country. Or further privatization of natural resources for more leeway in shameless exploitation. It's not terribly hard to understand why poverty in Africa is not about disappear under these conditions.
I'm a Liberian. Liberia is a country 3rd world country in Sub-Saharan Africa. And I am communicating to you through my laptop. My sister is watching Netflix in and air conditioned room.
The day will come wen Africans will say enough is enough and get their independence. These people know we are the richest yet they choose to use our resources. That day will come and i hope i will be there to witness everything
I'll tell you what Africa needs. First, we know what is wrong with us and how we can develop and enrich the continent. The problem is the high level of corruption from top to bottom. Eradicate the heads of corruption and instill patrotism and truth from the cradle. An average African has a mindset of corrupt intention to take advantage of any opportunity given. Truly Africa needs deliverance. It's like the spiritual forces of wickedness as beamed it's light on it
Africa simply needs to get good leaders and problem solved. No need to worry how hard it would be because that is the ultimate solution. The societal structure is like the human body. When the brain is suffering a form of infection and all the organs of the body begin to act up, where do you treat first, the brain or the rest of the faulty organs, that anwsers the question of Africa's issues. Foreign pestilence ensure continous bad leadership and take advantage of it giving rise to perpetual poverty. Treat the brain of Africa and everyone at least most would fall inline and be normal citizens as their normal leaders.
***** It´s not about being right or wrong, it´s about seeing yourself as superior by living in the first world and simply saying "it´s their own fault, "we" give them so much and they fk up so they must be stupid/inferior."
MettheSlayer Sadly, there are many dickbags (as made obvious by people in this thread) that cant be asked to be rational or to even think outside their egos for a second.
Just a simple question, I don't mean to offend anyone if I do but.....Why aren't the famous Millionaires and Billionaires who claim they're from Africa actually travelling there and ACTUALLY making a change, i'm sure if they're from Africa they would know the aid schemes are nothing but that... Schemes. There's a lot of rich Africans as well.. If they're, then Something must be going wrong as it is clear! But if they aren't and they're just there to get rich from themselves then how will the rest of the world look at this?
This is a very simplistic, Eurocentric and naïve way of looking at Africa, claiming that the international community is helping Africa is ill informed. first you need to know that the amount of money Africans living in the diaspora send back home is more than what the so called international community provides. Secondly why don't you tell your European countries to pay for the natural resources and human capital they looted from the continent for 200 years without paying a cent. African growth has been supported by internal dynamics. You should also be smart to know the difference between foreign aid and loans. I am not sure whether you visited Africa yourself, or maybe you visited some remote village to have this perception. That said Africa doesn't need to be reminded of their sorry state, they know what they need to do and they will reach there
The Europeans didn't really loot human capital from Africa, different African ethnic groups sold people from rival ethnic groups or simply raided weaker peoples and sold them. That's not "looting" being done by Europeans.
How about all the major citys and infrastructure built in Africa? You think that Africans built it? One good example there's arailway built in Mali and around 40 proc. if it's eceonomy depends on it. Guess who built it.
Suede Component Looting was during the scramble to Africa when European countries simply went to parts of Africa and claimed land and resources and warred with neighboring civilizations.
Questions as valid: Why is Mississippi still poorer than many parts of Africa? Why is the US underdeveloped compared to many other Western countries? Why is most of Asia still in poverty?
Thank you for making such a great video. I've had much of the same view but unfortunately many people misunderstand me when I try to explain to people why foreign aid isn't such a good idea.
the squares: Countries that do not have any resources (such as oil and gold) Are the richest (such as Japan and Germany) And countries with resources Are the poorest __.
Here is a development story that can work. It involves a rich powerful Asian country and a poor developing country. The rich Asian country needed natural resources that the poor developing country had, so the Asian country offered billions of dollars in loans to the developing country in exchange for the natural resources. The developing country could then use the loans to buy whatever infrastructure it wanted from the Asian country, but had to hire the companies from the Asian country to do it. It sounds like the rich Asian country was taking advantage of the developing country. You may think this story involves China. Today we hear this development model between China and Africa as a "debt trap." This story does involve China, but China was the poor developing country and the rich powerful Asian country was Japan. This happened in the 1970's. China was poor and developing. It's a large country with a decent amount of oil and other natural resources, in the 1970's there was more than enough oil for the small economy in China. Japan was rich, had a large economy, but no natural resources. So it bought oil from China, and in exchange China bought ports, roads, power plants from Japanese construction companies. The deal benefited Japan, which got oil and business for its companies, but it was up to the Chinese to make the right decisions and acquire the right infrastructure it needed for its development. Would China be a manufacturing power today without the ports, railroads and road to move its goods around the world? Today in Africa we see the same model in play, some African countries make smart decisions and buy the right projects at a fair price. Other African countries waste the money on overpriced projects and corruption. But the point is the power is in the hands of the Africans. If the people don't like their government's decisions, they should do something about it. This model may not be perfect, but it's better than the pattern of dependence.
The best way to go about it is to take a page from Star Trek i.e. The Prime Directive. We should not be interfering in developing cultures no matter how bad things might be there. The people simply need to learn to help themselves and that is that.
They aren't developing cultures. They've been around for thousands of years. Imposing your culture on others never works. Everyone doesn't want to live in a nation state with a centralized government.
The worst thing about Africa is corruption. I live in Kenya myself, and the Kenyan economy has grown quite a bit in the last decade. But why are people still unhappy with the government? Because, politicians eat everything the taxpayers give, nothing goes back to the people.
The problem is simple, afrincan countries work hard every day and more than 50% of there profit goes to France or other countries... what were you expecting?
You gotta let them work their problems out alone. They need to develop their own political systems, their own infrastructure and so on, and if they fail then so be it.
While i agree with you for the most part when you said foreign aid has never helped a country transform from rich to poor, that’s simply not true, you can find examples of this in Japan Germany and other nations.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there's a misconception here. Africa isn't becoming poorer. The number of poor people in Africa has increased, but that's a consequence of population growth. If we consider Africa as a whole, it's never been better off.
What Africa needs is population reduction. Africans in genral tend to have more children then there environment, or parents for that matter, can support. Example: If you are having trouble feeding just yourself or yourself and your spouse. Then why would it be logical to procreate and bring another mouth to feed and house into the equation.
@@BOSSDONMAN don't generalize us. The average intelligence in my country at least has been steadily growing. Yes, the people in power are not the brightest but to write off all of us a ignorant is insulting. At least say the majority.
Russia fifty years ago decided from Moscow to improve crop yields by sending fertilizer to farm communities around the country. Sounded like a good idea, but the non-farming bureaucrats in the Kremlin didn't know how much to send. Common sense (not known to bureaucrats) would say to contact the communities to see how much each needed. But the kremlin decided to take the amount of fertilizer, and divide it equally all over the country. (That would sound good to Bernie and Octavio Cortez.) Some areas didn't get what they needed. Other areas got too much and threw the rest in rivers, polluting them. Isn't Socialism great?
What it's great is that everybody in western countries know what Africa needs. Jajajaja. What my continent needs is to know how to hide very well the high ignorance, corruption, poverty... As Western countries do.
Decent commentary on the topic. It does not explicitly mention the extremely important fact that the continent in general is a really bad host for civilization. But aside from that some important things where covered.
There's probably a lack of study of the particular cultures given aid, and how they handle the aid given them. Sometimes the problem is in the cultures themselves. If the culture still supports headhunting, there's likely little you can do to help them if they can't change their culture.
In the 1980's, USA for Africa (remember "We Are The World"?) shipped thousands of crates of food to Africa...which were quickly stolen by warlords to sell on the black market...so the funding stopped...which is why you don't here anything about this charity today...
The problem is culture. I didn't want to say it but this is the only explanation. Why has India, most countries in East Asia, and Latin America gotten richer?
Simple solution if foreign goverments get out of african goverments and stoped controling them and let them live in peace mybe africans will actually find something to eat and build their countries . AM AFRICAN AND I KNOW WHAT AM TALKING ABOUT
foreign aid is a small bandaid in a giant bleeding wound. You want to help africa? Invest in it, develop it's infrastructure, create industries in the countries in which it can become a viable exporter.
Feeding Africa been since 50s n still being fed. So yah.. Their country needs to do something. Very dependant in foreign aid they will nit become self sufficient..
***** just because they lived a tribal life doesn't mean they weren't happy. just like how adam and eve were kicked out of the garden of eden when adam ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge, these africans were kicked out of their blissful tribal life once they were introduced to western conveniences.
***** man will always war but colonization is what brought the diseases that increased the mortality rate. colonization also brought weapons like the ak47, that allows kids who previously couldn't fight, fight in the wars which also increased the mortality rate. also colonists weren't thinking they were bringing civilization to savage lands, they were thinking "ahhhhh snap, non white claimed land, i'm gonna be rich"
One thing he failed to mention is the amount of control foreign countries that once colonized African countries still have. For example, when France granted its 14 colonies independence, the government forced them to sign a document called the Pact for Continued Colonization. The document stipulated these countries had to deposit 85% of their income into French banks. France invested that money and made billions. If one of those African countries want any of their own money, they have to apply for a loan. They have to borrow and pay back their own money with interest. The percentage has lowered over the years, but the process is the same. And if they make any attempt to end this, France has mechanisms in place to squash that, including a military presence. That's just one example. Many other former colonizers have their hands in the African cookie jars. You also have the Chinese government with strong footholds in some of these countries with expats who mistreat the people. It's not all African governments' fault or those people mentioned in this video. Those whom he mentioned were set up to fail.
Also aside from charity you could have mentioned the destructive economic practices imposed by EU and US that go much further. African countries are forced into Free-Trade-Agreements and prevented from protecting their own economy. Additionally to dumping lots of toxic waste in Africa, these agreements let Western countries dump worthless products in Africa further destroying local economies and creating dependency with locally spent cash flowing out of Africa. Those products are cheaper than local African products with wages next to 0 because in Europe they would actually have to pay for proper disposal of waste. Either products are second hand that has been replaced with newer stuff, dont adhere to European standards anymore or are overproduced. Some is also heavily subsidized(some food) so that even African farmers working for next to nothing cannot compete. Also imported crops are designed to create dependencies of farmers to Western companies to extract as much wealth as possible. Food crops needed in those countries are replaced with cash crops for export - creating further dependencies on food imports. Basically modern merkantilism and Africa is and has always been (at least since colonisation) on the losing end of that.
Africa is going to need to persevere and work hard. They cant be reliant on funds. 1st:War,Genocide,Hatred,Etc just needs to stop. This just causes suffering. 2nd: All these corrupt governments need to be seriously taken down. The African people need to fight for a stable government that funds stuff and provides for the people and that can create lots of jobs with decent pay that can improve the economy. 3rd:Education,once a stable government is established,the government can build and fund schools. 4th:Once people get an education than people can get out of poverty and work jobs that the STABLE GOVERNMENT has provided and can lift the people out of poverty. So people won't be working,hard jobs with extremely low wages. This wont be easy but with time it can happen.
It is estimated that the sums that leave the continent are 10 times superior to international aid. That tells you everything you need to know. The system as it is today is not designed for the development of Africa. Period.
So we're not going to talk about the billions in resources that foreign entities take out of the continent every year? Trust me, more is taken out than is ever given back in the form of this so-called aide you speak of. Pieces like this make your platform complicit in the cover up because you know better This is 2020 and there has been far too much trusted research and factual publishing about the looting of the continent for a source like yours to act like they don't know the real answer to the question. Next time, spend just 4 minutes speaking with Howard W. French or Tom Burgis if you really want to inform people on this topic. I expected better from AJ and am sorely disappointed.
now thats messed up, the west can't leave Africa because A. they were the source of all the problems, and B. they can't live without the natural resources, what they give in aid, they gain back ten fold in resources
Kwetsi G What the west gains in resources, are paid to the local governments and or the local 1%... What these people in turn do with that wealth is not necessarily responsibility of the buyer. When you go and eat to a restaurant or buy anything at Wal-Mart, do you ever ask if the owner is paying his/her employees proper wages? or just enjoy your meal and get your new shinny products and go?
Frank Rogue That's where the western hypocrisy kicks in. The west is zealous in promoting freedom from oppression, freewill, to sum it up, freedom for the people. Heck, they even went to war to secure that freedom for nationals in other countries e.g America. If they could do that, why not implement policies or play policitcs which will force the concerned countries to implement regulation which will distribute wealth? Thats only one answer to that my friend is self interest. The west does not give a fuck about people suffering injustice in poorer countries. The only time they do is when it concerns or threatens their (west) interest. They will keep doing it as long as its cheap and is beneficial to them.
People you are getting it all wrong! This is why what you think Africa needs is not what Africa wants! In 1997 I went to my rural village even if I new what was lacking, which was clean drinking water, I called a meeting to ask what they really wanted if I would want to help them. They came up with one answer : they needed water. Clean drinking water!. I asked them what will be their input? They said we will make sure the boreholes are well taken care of by the community. And we will put our resources together for Eventualities. They needed someone to train who can repair the pumps. They provided someone who can be trained. We created our NGO in the Netherlands. Put monies together and drilled 7 boreholes. 20 years down the line, the boreholes are still in operational because they feel that is theirs. My people feel insulted if a foreigner comes to tell them what they think they want. They want to feel ownership about anything in their community.
"If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. If you teach a man to fish, he will eat for a life time."
Literally an ancient proverb and people still haven't caught on. Some people...
Absolutley true.
Marina Joyce why not, humans are animals
hassan messaoudi Morocco etc are still in Africa in order to define the black Africa, they must say the Sub-Saharan Africa.
that's why people want a welfare state bcos of the degree didnt work for earning a job.
Only if the problem is this simple
a stable government would be a good start
Keaton Dayne How a stable government can appear if people aren't concerned about politics?
SO WE NEED A STRONG MERCILESS REGIEME THAT PUMP OUT HIGHLY NATIONALISTIC PROPAGANDA WHILE SOFTENING THE CITIZENS WITH MASSIVE AMOUNT OF LUXURY CONSUMER PRODUCTS!!!!!!
In Africa? Lol
A profile pic that is not as childish asf may mean people actually consider your comment.
@@travv88 Are you saying that black poeple are stupid?
I have some experience with aide programs in Afghanistan. The people who designed these project have no real intention of helping the people. Its more of a symbolic gesture to pacify the people at home and add some feel good stories to the news cycle. They don't measure success by the results of the work like people employed, quality of life increased, needs of the people met,etc., but by how much money they spent in the process. (Spend baby, spend!) Since nobody at home really pays attention to places like Afghanistan, or Africa they can make public declarations of success without anyone asking any tough insightful questions.
Michael Fields I agree. The best foreign aid the us has ever given was to Germany... They didn't.
Like what Maliha Chishti said in a TED Talk.
Those people (aid donors) are controlled by goat Lucy
@SandboxArrow God bless you though. Look at you trying to be an edge lord that's adorable. Anyhow despite our shortcomings we have a soul. Unlike you friend. But come to Jesus he might help you find peace okay 😊
They don’t have any interest in helping Africa. They come with their own agenda.
Africa doesn't need saving, it need investments.What Africa needs is infrastructure aid, not food aid
***** Yes, it's a vicious circle. In my opinion the priority should be 1. Education and literacy and 2. Political stability. A poor but literate workforce under a stable environment is sure to draw in massive inflows of business investment which, if properly harnessed and regulated, can be the needed impulse for countries to take off development-wise, maybe a bit like the Asian "Tigers". Many African countries have a large, young and inexpensive workforce and are full of resources so there is no reason the continent should be cursed to perpetuity.
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They are malnourished because they are poor, not because they can't fend for themselves
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Investment, thats what i said they need, you need INVESTMENT from the world, not just yourself. Thats what is said
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giving food doesn't a make a poor person rich, giving them investment allows them to have luxuries without the help of others
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How about this as a solution to their problems. Rathe than giving food and water to the people of africa, why dont you offer economic aid to the governments in africa, who in return most reform to more democratic practices? Also how about the creation of businesses with the aid money, a billion dollars goes much futher in africa than when you spend it on food. This makes the countries industrialize much faster, and it allows africans to have wealth themselves. Thus solving half of their problems. Not to mention the much higher tax incomes allow the governments to be able to build infrastracture
Africa has enough wind energy to power the whole continent. TheCongo river alone has enough energy to power the continent. Yet there are still some villages that don't have needs to basic electricity.
damming up a natural life sustaining river isnt the answer !!
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You keep saying things about the government of Africa, but the problem comes outside of Africa like the USA and Europeans governments that want to get rid off great leaders and put puppets
@@Charles-hy6gp yes I know and great video recommendations. Most African presidents are puppets for the US , China, EU. Especially were I come from in Uganda. Museveni invades Somalia, Central African Republic, and Congo for the US and China etc. He has rigged our elections Ugandans no longer have any rights or freedoms.
Africa need to get their leadership recruitment right
Africa needs to be left alone, so they can figure shit out for themselves. You rob them of that, and like the host points out leads to dependency.
jivenesspie yes, leave Africa alone including having western soldiers there killing and raping, including stopping stealing the natural resources and including stopping interfering in their politics and killing any African president who refuses to give resources to western countries. Then Africa can develop.
i dont care wat u guys say, I am proud to be an african
i am not hedwig But??? Stealing oil is good.
i agree
jivenesspie You think dictators and famine disappears on its own? Maybe. The US escaped monarchy, Europe went from widespread poverty to widespread middle-class.
But why?
we can save our damn selves! Get rid of the french colonial influence in Africa and cut all of the awful overloaded contracts that countries secretly keep and let African market forces shape Africa. Empower our youth, teach technology, let the Girl Child be free to complete school and teach people a skill they can work with. Either way, let us sink or swim on our own.
Well said. Thank you.
Viola Llewellyn I would say get rid of the Arab influence and everything else but keep the French secularism.
Sorzin getting rid of both would be better
Viola Llewellyn truth
@@sorzin2289 France by the admission of its own leadership over thw past 60 years is cognizant of the fact that its relationship with Afrika is existential. They would slide to the status of a 3rd world country without it's continued theft and wealth transfer of hundreds of billions of euros from the annual earnings of 14 Afrikan states that are effectively French neo colonies. Scheme is known as. " the "French Colonial Tax" and has gone on for decades. Billions that should be used to develop those respective societies instead going to make a few wealthy Frenchmen wealthier.
There can be no serious talk about giving Afrika ANY aid talking billion while the continent is subject to capital flight to the tune of trillions.
Best assistance? Stop meddling, stop pushing underdevelopment policies and culture war. Save the money to feed and develop your own societies.
Because aid to Africa is never out of the goodness of anyone's time hearts, it's because there's always something to gain. Aid is used tactically by other nations to establish infrastructure that aids other nations.
It is out of the goodness of alot of peoples hearts that they wanna help Africa but its not that easy...There is no reasonable economic growth and occur without political stability. Another problem is the different tribes in Africa. Althrough some tribes are closer to each other but most of them have completely different tradition and language but are boxed up in a country. People have spent more time fighting than developing, many have died in the hands of leaders who want to be like the king of old whose wishes were absolute these are some of the reason i feel Africa is still backwards.
It's all so tiring
MrAsap2000as I can tell by this very comment you have a very low level or education on african history, so you go to dumbfuck racial essentialism, you can’t in good faith compare Korea to Sub Saharan African countries who are still facing neocolonialism to this day from countries like France and China.
@MrAsap2000as Asian countries were successful because they didn't have their leaders being assassinated every few years for not wanting to play ball with the french or the americans. Read "economic hit man" and it will explain why the third world still exists in 2020
@MrAsap2000as Also you're a racist why am I even replying to you...
"aşk the people what they need instead of giving them what you think they want"
The problem with donations is it ALWAYS goes too the dictating leaders and not the people who need it
The problem is people is often too short sighted. just left africa alone and lets its rebuild itself. Foreign aids only help the local ditactor and make the place poorer. I agree with aj only for this time
It will never build itself
Help the poor in Africa. They will die if they aren't helped.
@@jenniferhaynes8625 prob some help like giving them foreign advisor to manage reconstruction and stuff, but direct donation is a no good way and only exacerbate the problem.
yeah few will die but less suffering in future. those early death are just way of balancing with how the people live there. while it's cruel it's a much better way to solve it
Dear, the problem are not the foreigners. The problem are us, the africans. Fix the leadership in your country, problem solved. Or take matters in your own hands and become yourself a leader. Not sure you would change anything. “Die a hero or wait till you become the villain”.
@@jenniferhaynes8625 they suvived for thousands of years until certain people showed up. Western culture is not universal. Their culture developed thanks to their geography. You can't export it everywhere. Western culture might make you "rich" but not happy or healthy.
it´s already explained in a book called " why nations fail".
The problem with Sub-Saharan Africa is that it depends entirely on other countries, this discourages investment and development and makes them even more dependent on foreign assistance, it's a downward spiral...
100% after a certain point people need to help themselves
When westerners go to African countries to "volunteer", they're actually taking jobs from the local people. I think that's one of the reasons why many people in Africa are unemployed. I went to Senegal to visit relatives, and you wouldn't believe how many foreigners were working at the schools and hospitals near the village. My cousin is a college-educated and qualified nurse. But when she went to look for a job at a hospital, the director told her that they had to give spots to the American people who came to volunteer. Fortunately, she has a job now. But it took her nearly a year because many spots at the hospitals were taken by western nurses. Most of the foreigners couldn't even speak Wolof or French (the local languages of the area). I'm sure most of them had good intentions, but all they really did was take jobs away from the locals.
How does an illiterate man teach his illiterate son math?? Newsflash, he doesn't. Educated foreigners are a massive help to educate the people there.
@@Shavarmaisvegetarian when the heck are you talking about? There are many educated people in Africa. I've travelled a bit and I can tell you that most people wherever you go just have basic education but they have so brainwashed that they think they are more than that. Even in India, a country with more people than all the 55 African countries, the majority are uneducated but they think otherwise because of all that propaganda.
@shankapuppet a Kang? Can you actually speak English?
Africa doesn't need the world the world needs Africa.
Denzel Reid facts momar ghadffii knew
Why is Africa still in poverty?
Answer: Their culture.
You could give these countries all the money in the world but they will eventually hurt themselves because of their culture. Their government also is affected by their culture and they just keep screwing themselves over.
Very true. Tribalism has always been our way of life and our culture. By forcing Civlization onto us, your not making sense, your just speaking a whole different language.
@DistriktA tribalism is one of the problems indeed but their is more
I am from Eritrea but my Country doesn't expect aid if you don't know Africa don't take like that again please because you guys you don't the all Africa
It's also worth mentioning when certain nations refuse foreign aid with the hope of building their own sustainable economy they get crushed by sanctions.
Source ?
Africa is rich and it's not in poverty, How can they be poor but rich in land and resources, money doesn't make one rich the sensibility of learning to survive makes one wealthy like a plant needing nourishment. A tribe doesn't need money to survive but if they lived in the city hears what they would do, they would all work together and form a unity to come out of poverty, basically the mind is already wealthy and without it guiding others one couldn't even gain the will needed to climb a high mountain for a glowing prize at the top, wealth comes in all forms, some seek richness in love, self love, food, life, family, the thought of world peace, art, science..... wealth all comes down to the individuals perception but we all have greatness implanted into or great minds and with it we can accomplish anything that we put or minds to no matter what, where there's a will there's always a way, Why isn't there more stories about how rich Africans became rich, they became rich because they looked outside the box and realized that poverty is of the mind but the will to survive no matter what is of the GOD in all. ( For this vary reason JOB never gave up in the bible ) We are the designers of the cosmos, if walt disney never created disney world wold it ever had been still thriving today, if mlk jr. never made his speech would be less free, if Moses never led his people out of Egypt would his people still not be free. God the gift is already in you, yo are already the gift, wanting more like christmas presents or materiazed things because you are already the gift of life ( the gift of the most high God ) now that we all realize that we have a special gift of conscuiusness ( life force energy ) it's what every we choose to do with that energy that makes us wealthy, that's what the old saying we all are born rich in Gods eyes come from.
Exactly! A good example is Zimbabwe!
this is all about rich people feeling good about themselves and what they did than actually saving other people. Like the old saying goes about teaching a person to fish and feeding him for life.
I don't think people understand. He said "Foreign aid alone has never transformed a poor country into a rich country." meaning that you need more than just simple aid to become prosperous. For example my country Denmark made Kanslergadeforliget, which together with "foreign aid" made us a developed country.
Africa is poor ,but every African leader is rich.
@Ramen Lover even richer than they are
Foreign aid isn't that much of a helping hand. It's more of a deal between governments: we give you money, you do whatever we want.
All lies:
1) Africa does have not warlords
2) Africa is the richest in natural resources
3) Africa is very free and has a lot of democracies
4) Rwanda's government as the most female parliamentarians in the world so no the women are not being maltreated
5) Watch a video about Lagos (African New York(or even better))
Africa needs ambition and hard work and less blaming others for their failures
We don’t blame others
Answer is its all by design. Who keeps Africa poor is the better question
Africa is poor by nature. Mostly bad soil, unclean drinking water, diseases that inhibit large numbers of cattle and so on. So the very basis for a strong civilization is barely there. Therefor Africas poverty is intrinsic and mankind is eons away from being able to afford the kind of terraforming etc. that is needed to make Africa a good host for civilization.
the answer is simple but nobody wants to hear it, their own people
Omg. How many excuses can you think up for why people can't take responsibility for themselves.
you are a racist idiot
Based!!!
Oscar Wilde, despite being a "dreamer", was perfectly right about charity---it merely aggravates the problem.
00:22 - "Western governments have donated over 2.3 trillion dollars in the past 60 years in the crusade to help the world's neediest people..." Wow!
This basic concept also applies to our poor people. Giving people money who don't know how to properly use it for their future always causes this. Without proper education and a willingness to follow through, social security always has the same result, more poor people than before.
So much diversity within sub Saharan Africa, U can never do unless people themselves change.. Give them money health whatever, they will always ending up misusing it..
What it needs is the ability to make products the rest of us can buy.
Africa does not need foreign aid. I am sick and tired of seeing Africans living on the charity of other nations, foreign celebrities and corporations. What we need are functioning governments that provide for the people and use their resources to raise the standard of living of the general population. AFRICANS MUST SOLVE AFRICAN PROBLEMS. NOT FOREIGNERS.
Me and you both.
have you noticed that on every continent there are poor and rich countries, except Africa where all countries are poor.
That's not true, Kuwait is extremely wealthy so is Dubai and Saudi ,and they are african countries
lol I’m african and probably richer than you
1:14 africa does not make up 1/3 of the world's poor in fact it is much worse. They make up 2/3 of the worlds poor. Do not underestimate the poverty in africa.
God help Africa :(
yeah. cmon god...flood earth again
God wont do shit
God save us from the WEst who colonised and brutalised us in the first place. Why on earth would a leopard change its spots?
God help
This is ridiculous. 2.3 trillion over 60 years sounds like a lot. But, it only amounts to 40 dollars per person per year. Absurd. Believe it or not, 10 cents a day per person is not enough to dramatically change an entire continent. While there are huge problems in Africa, and their are problems with poorly run aid programs, it doesn't mean that aid has failed. Also, how could shoe makers be going out of business if these kids didn't have shoes to begin with? Aren't there now more shoes to repair? I am sure the shoe repairman loves repairing Tom's shoes. Providing medical facilities is a good thing. Everything has side effects. Drugs have side effects, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't take life saving medication. I am sure the treatment of diseases was much better than the excess trash and the shanty towns that popped up. OTHERWISE the people wouldn't have gone there for treatment. My head hurts watching this.
Luke Seefeldt Well you do realize 10 cents a day is a lot there.
Josh gIf they make two dollars a day that is enough to boost there income 5 percent. It is not a lot. 2 dollars a day is enough to put one in poverty. 2.10 is still enough to be in poverty. Imagine what the ebola epidemic would have been like if there were no hospitals. I agree we need to ask Africa what it needs. However large projects such as key infrastructure, hospitals, and schools make the world a better place.
Luke Seefeldt are you saying the West should give up it's own problems to fix Africa's. They need to git gud. And the west and China (can't forget China) needs to leave them alone.
The British was once a poor pathetic island everyone invaded for fun. many of their ppl didn't have shoes or food no one really helped them they just got resourceful... Improvise adapt overcome aka git gud
haley smith British people have their own shoes and food.And no, it wasn't a poor pathetic island.
Enter Ur Name Here I'm talking about the time after Roman occupation and during enslavement by the Mormons (aka the french) during this period they were alot of poor British all the way to the industrial era. So no the country wasn't born with fat pockets, they had to git gud
One approach would be to look at how countries have recently substantially reduced their own extreme poverty. China and India, for example. How did they do that? What prevents Africa from doing the same? China and India make things that people want to buy at affordable prices and then engage in international trade to sell those goods. Then they use that money to improve their societies. Some countries in Africa have started to do that. Others perhaps could follow.
What is stopping Africa is the same people who drew random lines on a map that divided the rich continent (resource wise) into small European colonies. In efforts to benefit the oppressor and not in consideration of the people who live on the land. Many places deemed "first world" countries have a major role to play in why the continent is perceived the way it is today as poor and destitute. If you really think to yourself, how is the continent with the most abundance in natural resources deemed as the poorest? Its because other groups of people cant seem to take their hands out of Africans' pockets, and even worst the corrupt leaders installed by the colonizers after they leave just further drives the oppression.
Well the simple reason is corruption 🥴 I'll explain why
In order to run a industry you need electricity a lot of it you need to build roads ports infrastructures etc etc and guess what past attempt of doing just that hasn't worked do you know why?
Africa is poor because it's politics.
Thank you 😄
Corruption and still exploitation from the west
@@dondevives9172 alot of african countries are never ruled ruled by any foreign nation u know that ryt?
@@dondevives9172 india and china was also ruled by europeans so what?
Let's. Start by letting the Africa continent. Benefit from it's own. NATURAL Resources
Africa needs to unite under one government and build roads, open these so-called borders and trade.
Africa is rich and it's not in poverty, How can they be poor but rich in land and resources, money doesn't make one rich the sensibility of learning to survive makes one wealthy like a plant needing nourishment. A tribe doesn't need money to survive but if they lived in the city hears what they would do, they would all work together and form a unity to come out of poverty, basically the mind is already wealthy and without it guiding others one couldn't even gain the will needed to climb a high mountain for a glowing prize at the top, wealth comes in all forms, some seek richness in love, self love, food, life, family, the thought of world peace, art, science..... wealth all comes down to the individuals perception but we all have greatness implanted into or great minds and with it we can accomplish anything that we put or minds to no matter what, where there's a will there's always a way, Why isn't there more stories about how rich Africans became rich, they became rich because they looked outside the box and realized that poverty is of the mind but the will to survive no matter what is of the GOD in all. ( For this vary reason JOB never gave up in the bible ) We are the designers of the cosmos, if walt disney never created disney world wold it ever had been still thriving today, if mlk jr. never made his speech would be less free, if Moses never led his people out of Egypt would his people still not be free. God the gift is already in you, yo are already the gift, wanting more like christmas presents or materiazed things because you are already the gift of life ( the gift of the most high God ) now that we all realize that we have a special gift of conscuiusness ( life force energy ) it's what every we choose to do with that energy that makes us wealthy, that's what the old saying we all are born rich in Gods eyes come from.
Tribalism prevents this
Africa is poor due to its corrupt politicians......
Not every country is poor or corrupt
"Foreign aid alone has never transformed a poor country into a rich country."
Except for, you know, when Marshall Aid was given to Italy.
And Italy is going through a huge financial crisis at this point. Foreign aid alone does not help.
Heck, the allies rebuild Germany and Japan. In the 1950s, debts of Germany were forgiven. Wiped out.
They can do the same to all the African countries but they won't.
nytehawx "And Italy is going through a huge financial crisis at this point."
Which isn't really of any relevance. Despite the "crisis" Italy still is one of the richest countries in the word and it _was_ transformed into that by Marshall aid. What happens 60 odd years after that does nothing to alter that fact.
I'm all for debt forgiveness b.t.w. I'm just saying that there is at least one case which demonstrates the opposite of what is claimed at the end.
Lukas That's explained by the fact that the Marshall Plan involved not throwing red cents at poor locals just to feel good about it, but a comprehensive plan for reconstruction and development, to be carried out by relatively responsible and transparent governments. In other words, the exact opposite of the Africa policies, where the strategy since at least a century is to prop up or rely on horrible brutal and corrupt regimes to deplete countries of their natural wealth, and then sending some bags with USAID stamped on it when a journalist happens to be lying around so that we can feel good about it. And then again that "aid" is often conditioned to economic measures like unfair so-called "free trade agreements" that result in wiping out what little business sector there was in the country. Or further privatization of natural resources for more leeway in shameless exploitation. It's not terribly hard to understand why poverty in Africa is not about disappear under these conditions.
Fonk Vènço I can only endorse what you wrote.
And germany, britain and france, and south korea and umm japan all post world war 2 except korea sometime after its civil war. but heyy what do I know
I'm a Liberian. Liberia is a country 3rd world country in Sub-Saharan Africa. And I am communicating to you through my laptop. My sister is watching Netflix in and air conditioned room.
So? Is not special life in other part of the wolds....your people need improvement
@@zarkasiasnawi3832 that wasn't my point. I was trying to give people a better idea. But yeah, I get what your trying to say.
Every positive thing is in some way negative. Every negative thing is in some way positive.
Food is not a problem in Africa, problem is investment..instead of giving people what you want give them what they need
The day will come wen Africans will say enough is enough and get their independence. These people know we are the richest yet they choose to use our resources. That day will come and i hope i will be there to witness everything
I'll tell you what Africa needs. First, we know what is wrong with us and how we can develop and enrich the continent. The problem is the high level of corruption from top to bottom. Eradicate the heads of corruption and instill patrotism and truth from the cradle. An average African has a mindset of corrupt intention to take advantage of any opportunity given. Truly Africa needs deliverance. It's like the spiritual forces of wickedness as beamed it's light on it
Africa simply needs to get good leaders and problem solved. No need to worry how hard it would be because that is the ultimate solution. The societal structure is like the human body. When the brain is suffering a form of infection and all the organs of the body begin to act up, where do you treat first, the brain or the rest of the faulty organs, that anwsers the question of Africa's issues. Foreign pestilence ensure continous bad leadership and take advantage of it giving rise to perpetual poverty. Treat the brain of Africa and everyone at least most would fall inline and be normal citizens as their normal leaders.
it doesnt matter what we give them, they will still fuck it up anyhow.
Nice opinion, just sit tight on that high horse of yours ;)
***** It´s not about being right or wrong, it´s about seeing yourself as superior by living in the first world and simply saying "it´s their own fault, "we" give them so much and they fk up so they must be stupid/inferior."
MettheSlayer Sadly, there are many dickbags (as made obvious by people in this thread) that cant be asked to be rational or to even think outside their egos for a second.
+thong la africa receives 30 billion in aide but loses 192 billion in many different ways to the west/europe. mess me with that shit again.
hay
Just a simple question, I don't mean to offend anyone if I do but.....Why aren't the famous Millionaires and Billionaires who claim they're from Africa actually travelling there and ACTUALLY making a change, i'm sure if they're from Africa they would know the aid schemes are nothing but that... Schemes. There's a lot of rich Africans as well..
If they're, then Something must be going wrong as it is clear! But if they aren't and they're just there to get rich from themselves then how will the rest of the world look at this?
This is a very simplistic, Eurocentric and naïve way of looking at Africa, claiming that the international community is helping Africa is ill informed. first you need to know that the amount of money Africans living in the diaspora send back home is more than what the so called international community provides. Secondly why don't you tell your European countries to pay for the natural resources and human capital they looted from the continent for 200 years without paying a cent. African growth has been supported by internal dynamics. You should also be smart to know the difference between foreign aid and loans. I am not sure whether you visited Africa yourself, or maybe you visited some remote village to have this perception. That said Africa doesn't need to be reminded of their sorry state, they know what they need to do and they will reach there
excellent comment
The Europeans didn't really loot human capital from Africa, different African ethnic groups sold people from rival ethnic groups or simply raided weaker peoples and sold them. That's not "looting" being done by Europeans.
How about all the major citys and infrastructure built in Africa? You think that Africans built it? One good example there's arailway built in Mali and around 40 proc. if it's eceonomy depends on it. Guess who built it.
Suede Component Looting was during the scramble to Africa when European countries simply went to parts of Africa and claimed land and resources and warred with neighboring civilizations.
Questions as valid:
Why is Mississippi still poorer than many parts of Africa?
Why is the US underdeveloped compared to many other Western countries?
Why is most of Asia still in poverty?
Thank you for making such a great video. I've had much of the same view but unfortunately many people misunderstand me when I try to explain to people why foreign aid isn't such a good idea.
We should ask the missionaries and the old peace corp members that went here to try decades ago, and to tell us why they think Africa doesn't improve.
They’re poor because they’re not serving each other enough, at a high enough level.
the squares:
Countries that do not have any resources (such as oil and gold) Are the richest (such as Japan and Germany)
And countries with resources
Are the poorest __.
"The person who has the most money and declares it aloud will lose it the quickest"-Me
The country's with the recousrces have the most corrupt leaders you can ever imagine, you can't be clean when you sit on a gold mine
The poorest contries are actually the most exploited ones
Here is a development story that can work. It involves a rich powerful Asian country and a poor developing country. The rich Asian country needed natural resources that the poor developing country had, so the Asian country offered billions of dollars in loans to the developing country in exchange for the natural resources. The developing country could then use the loans to buy whatever infrastructure it wanted from the Asian country, but had to hire the companies from the Asian country to do it.
It sounds like the rich Asian country was taking advantage of the developing country. You may think this story involves China. Today we hear this development model between China and Africa as a "debt trap." This story does involve China, but China was the poor developing country and the rich powerful Asian country was Japan. This happened in the 1970's. China was poor and developing. It's a large country with a decent amount of oil and other natural resources, in the 1970's there was more than enough oil for the small economy in China. Japan was rich, had a large economy, but no natural resources. So it bought oil from China, and in exchange China bought ports, roads, power plants from Japanese construction companies. The deal benefited Japan, which got oil and business for its companies, but it was up to the Chinese to make the right decisions and acquire the right infrastructure it needed for its development. Would China be a manufacturing power today without the ports, railroads and road to move its goods around the world?
Today in Africa we see the same model in play, some African countries make smart decisions and buy the right projects at a fair price. Other African countries waste the money on overpriced projects and corruption. But the point is the power is in the hands of the Africans. If the people don't like their government's decisions, they should do something about it. This model may not be perfect, but it's better than the pattern of dependence.
The best way to go about it is to take a page from Star Trek i.e. The Prime Directive. We should not be interfering in developing cultures no matter how bad things might be there. The people simply need to learn to help themselves and that is that.
They aren't developing cultures. They've been around for thousands of years. Imposing your culture on others never works. Everyone doesn't want to live in a nation state with a centralized government.
Corruption is the number 1 reason
The worst thing about Africa is corruption. I live in Kenya myself, and the Kenyan economy has grown quite a bit in the last decade. But why are people still unhappy with the government? Because, politicians eat everything the taxpayers give, nothing goes back to the people.
The problem is simple, afrincan countries work hard every day and more than 50% of there profit goes to France or other countries... what were you expecting?
You gotta let them work their problems out alone. They need to develop their own political systems, their own infrastructure and so on, and if they fail then so be it.
Still? It's been in poverty its entire history outside of North Africa. Sub Saharan Africa has always been centuries behind all the other continents.
While i agree with you for the most part when you said foreign aid has never helped a country transform from rich to poor, that’s simply not true, you can find examples of this in Japan Germany and other nations.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there's a misconception here. Africa isn't becoming poorer. The number of poor people in Africa has increased, but that's a consequence of population growth. If we consider Africa as a whole, it's never been better off.
What Africa needs is population reduction. Africans in genral tend to have more children then there environment, or parents for that matter, can support. Example: If you are having trouble feeding just yourself or yourself and your spouse. Then why would it be logical to procreate and bring another mouth to feed and house into the equation.
Africa is one of the most sparsely populated continents.
William Parker They do not have the intelligence in order to plan ahead.
@@BOSSDONMAN don't generalize us. The average intelligence in my country at least has been steadily growing. Yes, the people in power are not the brightest but to write off all of us a ignorant is insulting. At least say the majority.
Russia fifty years ago decided from Moscow to improve crop yields by sending fertilizer to farm communities around the country. Sounded like a good idea, but the non-farming bureaucrats in the Kremlin didn't know how much to send. Common sense (not known to bureaucrats) would say to contact the communities to see how much each needed. But the kremlin decided to take the amount of fertilizer, and divide it equally all over the country. (That would sound good to Bernie and Octavio Cortez.)
Some areas didn't get what they needed. Other areas got too much and threw the rest in rivers, polluting them. Isn't Socialism great?
What it's great is that everybody in western countries know what Africa needs. Jajajaja. What my continent needs is to know how to hide very well the high ignorance, corruption, poverty... As Western countries do.
Yep, we are just hiding the videos of us sitting around hungry with flies all over us out west.
To be sincere the problem is US Africans. We cannot govern ourself period
Thank God for this video! People always never want to look at the unintended problems.
Decent commentary on the topic. It does not explicitly mention the extremely important fact that the continent in general is a really bad host for civilization. But aside from that some important things where covered.
Africa doesn't need us. We need Mother Africa!
The God will not change the condition of a people, before they try to change what is in themself.
There's probably a lack of study of the particular cultures given aid, and how they handle the aid given them. Sometimes the problem is in the cultures themselves. If the culture still supports headhunting, there's likely little you can do to help them if they can't change their culture.
The west never gave Africa aid to deal poverty. The aid was so they could cover up the continued exploitation of the continent.
In the 1980's, USA for Africa (remember "We Are The World"?) shipped thousands of crates of food to Africa...which were quickly stolen by warlords to sell on the black market...so the funding stopped...which is why you don't here anything about this charity today...
Far more wealth is extracted from Africa than what is given back in Aid.
The problem is culture. I didn't want to say it but this is the only explanation. Why has India, most countries in East Asia, and Latin America gotten richer?
BB you Crazy 🤣latin america rich?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣here in Spain there are a LOT of latin immigrants and they all tell me that they Don’t want to go back there
1:06 wtf hppend to the map
If ever Africa went underwater 😶👀
But asia
@@NativeVsColonial that would explain the poverty
It's cursed map
There's two europe area in the map
The only way out of poverty is them helping themselves aka pulling yourself by the bootstraps.
Simple solution if foreign goverments get out of african goverments and stoped controling them and let them live in peace mybe africans will actually find something to eat and build their countries . AM AFRICAN AND I KNOW WHAT AM TALKING ABOUT
America have homeless and a lot of poor people also ..
Save the people that re sleeping on the street of europe and the us
if nothing works maybe the people are the problem
foreign aid is a small bandaid in a giant bleeding wound. You want to help africa? Invest in it, develop it's infrastructure, create industries in the countries in which it can become a viable exporter.
Feeding Africa been since 50s n still being fed. So yah..
Their country needs to do something.
Very dependant in foreign aid they will nit become self sufficient..
best way to save africa, get a time machine and stop colonialism.
Lone Wanderer who said they weren't happy living the life they lived before colonization.
***** just because they lived a tribal life doesn't mean they weren't happy. just like how adam and eve were kicked out of the garden of eden when adam ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge, these africans were kicked out of their blissful tribal life once they were introduced to western conveniences.
***** man will always war but colonization is what brought the diseases that increased the mortality rate. colonization also brought weapons like the ak47, that allows kids who previously couldn't fight, fight in the wars which also increased the mortality rate. also colonists weren't thinking they were bringing civilization to savage lands, they were thinking "ahhhhh snap, non white claimed land, i'm gonna be rich"
***** Did you see your name on this comment?! What talking about you? Well you said it not me...
Lone Wanderer haters gone hate whether it be direct or indirect.
One thing he failed to mention is the amount of control foreign countries that once colonized African countries still have. For example, when France granted its 14 colonies independence, the government forced them to sign a document called the Pact for Continued Colonization. The document stipulated these countries had to deposit 85% of their income into French banks. France invested that money and made billions. If one of those African countries want any of their own money, they have to apply for a loan. They have to borrow and pay back their own money with interest. The percentage has lowered over the years, but the process is the same. And if they make any attempt to end this, France has mechanisms in place to squash that, including a military presence. That's just one example. Many other former colonizers have their hands in the African cookie jars. You also have the Chinese government with strong footholds in some of these countries with expats who mistreat the people. It's not all African governments' fault or those people mentioned in this video. Those whom he mentioned were set up to fail.
TRUEEE!!!!!
So what stops the African Govts from Cutting the Umbilical Chords with France once and for all
Also aside from charity you could have mentioned the destructive economic practices imposed by EU and US that go much further. African countries are forced into Free-Trade-Agreements and prevented from protecting their own economy.
Additionally to dumping lots of toxic waste in Africa, these agreements let Western countries dump worthless products in Africa further destroying local economies and creating dependency with locally spent cash flowing out of Africa.
Those products are cheaper than local African products with wages next to 0 because in Europe they would actually have to pay for proper disposal of waste. Either products are second hand that has been replaced with newer stuff, dont adhere to European standards anymore or are overproduced. Some is also heavily subsidized(some food) so that even African farmers working for next to nothing cannot compete. Also imported crops are designed to create dependencies of farmers to Western companies to extract as much wealth as possible. Food crops needed in those countries are replaced with cash crops for export - creating further dependencies on food imports.
Basically modern merkantilism and Africa is and has always been (at least since colonisation) on the losing end of that.
Africa is going to need to persevere and work hard. They cant be reliant on funds.
1st:War,Genocide,Hatred,Etc just needs to stop. This just causes suffering.
2nd: All these corrupt governments need to be seriously taken down. The African people need to fight for a stable government that funds stuff and provides for the people and that can create lots of jobs with decent pay that can improve the economy.
3rd:Education,once a stable government is established,the government can build and fund schools.
4th:Once people get an education than people can get out of poverty and work jobs that the STABLE GOVERNMENT has provided and can lift the people out of poverty. So people won't be working,hard jobs with extremely low wages.
This wont be easy but with time it can happen.
You missed the mark by a mile lol. The entire world keeps Africa just poor enough to exploit it lol
This here ☝
It is estimated that the sums that leave the continent are 10 times superior to international aid. That tells you everything you need to know. The system as it is today is not designed for the development of Africa. Period.
Condoms, shovel pick, hoe , seeds, and a tent, and energy tablets.
Africa is fine , those folks are mad that their devilish ways can't get them in !
They must be conquered and ruled by a powerful and stable nation
Bro you conquere something it gets worse and more unstable
So we're not going to talk about the billions in resources that foreign entities take out of the continent every year? Trust me, more is taken out than is ever given back in the form of this so-called aide you speak of. Pieces like this make your platform complicit in the cover up because you know better This is 2020 and there has been far too much trusted research and factual publishing about the looting of the continent for a source like yours to act like they don't know the real answer to the question. Next time, spend just 4 minutes speaking with Howard W. French or Tom Burgis if you really want to inform people on this topic. I expected better from AJ and am sorely disappointed.
Thank you for posting this
The best strategy is cash in hand to african entrepreneurs
So the best way to help Africa is not to help it at all
Zo why they help them,if they are more corruptive and violent ,before the have western help??...leave them alone.
THE16THPHANTOM What the fuck.
now thats messed up, the west can't leave Africa because A. they were the source of all the problems, and B. they can't live without the natural resources, what they give in aid, they gain back ten fold in resources
Kwetsi G exactly.
Kwetsi G What the west gains in resources, are paid to the local governments and or the local 1%... What these people in turn do with that wealth is not necessarily responsibility of the buyer.
When you go and eat to a restaurant or buy anything at Wal-Mart, do you ever ask if the owner is paying his/her employees proper wages? or just enjoy your meal and get your new shinny products and go?
Frank Rogue That's where the western hypocrisy kicks in. The west is zealous in promoting freedom from oppression, freewill, to sum it up, freedom for the people. Heck, they even went to war to secure that freedom for nationals in other countries e.g America.
If they could do that, why not implement policies or play policitcs which will force the concerned countries to implement regulation which will distribute wealth?
Thats only one answer to that my friend is self interest. The west does not give a fuck about people suffering injustice in poorer countries. The only time they do is when it concerns or threatens their (west) interest.
They will keep doing it as long as its cheap and is beneficial to them.
People you are getting it all wrong! This is why what you think Africa needs is not what Africa wants! In 1997 I went to my rural village even if I new what was lacking, which was clean drinking water, I called a meeting to ask what they really wanted if I would want to help them. They came up with one answer : they needed water. Clean drinking water!. I asked them what will be their input? They said we will make sure the boreholes are well taken care of by the community. And we will put our resources together for Eventualities. They needed someone to train who can repair the pumps. They provided someone who can be trained. We created our NGO in the Netherlands. Put monies together and drilled 7 boreholes. 20 years down the line, the boreholes are still in operational because they feel that is theirs. My people feel insulted if a foreigner comes to tell them what they think they want. They want to feel ownership about anything in their community.
Where is the foreign aid going though?
The magic to help Africa is to stop world economic inequalities and telling gorvements what to do for your gains.
01:06 what is up with that
Please also know Africa is a very diverse and large Continent! There are over 54 diverse countries across this continent!!!
Bad profile picture all lives matter
@@lukaspersson4051 shut up. Black lives matter is just saying “hey, blacks werent treated well! We should change that!”