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