| Why, after all these years, are so many | | | | power (no visits by Jesse Jackson or by an |
| countries in Africa still dependent upon | | | | |
| Western aid? Has such aid truly helped the | | | | African-American coalition of outraged |
| situation or | | | | ministers over this reverse discrimination or |
| | | | threats of sanctions by the divided UN). |
| encouraged them to let others do for them | | | | These are some of the points (sharpened by my |
| what they won't do for themselves? (As the | | | | own experiences and observations) |
| saying goes, you can give a man a fish and | | | | travel-writer Paul Theroux makes in his work: |
| he'll eat | | | | Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape |
| | | | Town. I've been blessed to have also visited |
| once or you can teach him how to fish and | | | | parts of Africa, having taken trains, planes, |
| he'll eat plenty of times). Has such | | | | and automobiles (hitchhiked for the most |
| assistance truly served the long-term | | | | part) from |
| interests of Africa or merely | | | | |
| | | | Johannesburg to Cape Town, South Africa, up |
| the self-interests of burgeoning | | | | the Garden Route to Durban, Swaziland, Kruger |
| bureaucracies? Why does the white world of | | | | National Park, and back to Johannesburg, on |
| the West seem more concerned for the welfare | | | | to Pretoria |
| and security of Africans than do many of | | | | |
| Africa's tyrannical leaders? I | | | | and the Voortrekker's National Monument |
| | | | (does it still stand?) while en route to |
| raise this question because the West is | | | | Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). I met |
| usually despised as former colonialists and | | | | up with an English lass on the train in |
| imperialists and is no longer welcome to rule | | | | Bulawayo whom I had met near George, South |
| with its | | | | Africa and bunji-jumped with off a bridge |
| | | | weeks before while travelling back to |
| law and order but is begged to bail African | | | | Johannesburg. I then went to Tel Aviv, Israel |
| countries out once their | | | | before coming to Home Sweet Home (USA). May |
| | | | God bless Africa with genuine leaders who |
| elected leaders rip them off (bloating | | | | love their people and who put their people |
| foreign bank accounts) and strip their | | | | above their personal ambitions and greedy |
| countries bare by grievous mismanagement. | | | | temptations.David Ben-Ariel, a |
| Productive white Israelite farmers in | | | | Christian-Zionist writer and author of Beyond |
| Zimbabwe, for example, have viciously been | | | | Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall, shares a |
| driven off their family farms for black | | | | special focus on the Middle East, reflected |
| squatters who do just that - squat | | | | in hard-hitting articles that help others |
| | | | improve their understanding of that troubled |
| - and the orphaned land lies fallow and the | | | | region. Check out Beyond Babylon. |
| country starves. Yet racist Mugabe's still in | | | | |