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Africa is big business - for everybody except Africans. If the oyibos could have their way, Africans would be like Native Americans - forgotten people herded into small reservations to drink themselves to extinction while the people who actually understand the value of the land take it over.
That is why in Africa, whether you are a politician, journalist, researcher, policeman, soldier, academic or entertainer, there is always an oyibo with a suitcase of dollars, pounds and euros who is willing to fill your outstretched hand with just enough of them to get you to do what he wants. Mind you, never enough to actually set you up for life - just enough to keep you hungry and interested until next time.
Those dollars are not free money and the oyibo giving them to you is not a philanthropist. Every $1 he gives you will return $1,000 to him from the wealth that was bequeathed to you by your ancestors. That's why you get a $10bn rail "investment" in Angola that carefully avoids any population or industrial centres and instead chooses a 1,300KM path through a dense tropical rainforest, going from the impoverished mining area in DR Congo directly to the Lobito port, from where the ships will load the ores and take them straight to the US.
That's why even the contracts to build, operate, maintain and secure this piece of American economic vandalism disguised as "infrastructure investment" do not include a single African entity. 1,300KM of railway through southern Angola, and the companies that ringfenced everything are @motaengil (Portugal), @trafigura (Switzerland) and Vecturis (Belgium). Everybody including the workers who will weld the rails and the chefs who will cook for them will be Europeans.
You can be sure however, that whichever Angolan government official approved this giant heist would have received a few hundred thousand dollars from the oyibo suitcase, because that's what Africans do - consistently lose the bigger wealth opportunity tomorrow for the sake of oyibo's dollars today.
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