People keep telling me that Africa can't develop because of foreign meddling.
The West interferes, they say. The colonizers won't let us rise.
Let me tell you about Vietnam.
The United States bombed Vietnam for nearly a decade.
They dropped 7.5 million tons of bombs, which is more than three times what was dropped during all of World War II. Entire provinces were flattened.
They sprayed millions of gallons of Agent Orange that poisoned the land and the people for generations.
After the war, America broke its promise to provide reconstruction aid and pressured international institutions to deny Vietnam any loans or assistance.
The country was left isolated, embargoed, and devastated. In 1986, Vietnam was on the brink of collapse.
Inflation had hit 700 percent and farmers were starving.
If any nation had the right to blame foreign powers for its misery and give up, it was Vietnam.
Instead, they changed their policies.
They launched reforms called Doi Moi that legalized private enterprise, welcomed foreign investment, gave farmers land rights, and opened up to global trade.
Within a decade, the economy was growing at 7 percent per year and poverty was cut in half.
Today, Vietnam's GDP per capita has grown from under $100 in 1990 to over $4,000. Poverty dropped from 60 percent to under 5 percent. Major companies are now moving their factories from China to Vietnam.
This is a country that was literally bombed flat by a superpower, poisoned, and abandoned.
And they still found a way to prosper because they were willing to change their economic system.
So when I hear Africans say we can't develop because of meddling, I want to ask: what meddling post-colonialism compares to what Vietnam went through? We weren't bombed like that. We weren't poisoned like that. We weren't embargoed like that.
What we have for the most part are governments that refuse to create the conditions for entrepreneurs to thrive, and leaders who benefit from keeping us poor and dependent.
Foreign meddling is real, and it happens to every poor country on earth.
It's not unique to Africa.
It's what the powerful do to the weak, and every major power plays that game.
The only escape is to become prosperous enough that you can stand on your own feet, and that requires economic freedom.
Wake up Africa!
Iam always amazed by how foreigners can just walk into the country,locate a loophole or market need,set up an industry that employs '000s and impact societies while our local bilionaires akina Sonko cant think beyond Matatus,alcohol joints,rentals snd flashy cars.
There's a whole industry built around African poverty. NGOs, consultants, conferences, awareness campaigns, celebrity endorsements.
Billions of dollars flow through this system every year, employing thousands of well-paid Westerners.
None of those people have an incentive for the problem to actually be solved, because if African poverty disappeared tomorrow, they'd all need new jobs.
I'm not saying they're evil.
I'm saying the incentive structure is broken, and incentives shape behavior more than intentions do.
I've spent my whole life trying to understand why Africa is the poorest region in the world.
Low IQ. Malnutrition. Lack of education. Colonialism. Racism. Laziness.
I've heard every explanation. None of them made sense.
If it’s colonialism, why was Ethiopia (never colonized) for a long time the poster child for African poverty?
Why was Botswana, which was colonized, one of the best performers in Africa? And why is Singapore richer than its former colonizer?
If it's lack of education, why are half of African university graduates unemployed? Why were math degrees from Eswatini raising chickens before we hired them to teach at our virtual school?
The real answer is something nobody wants to talk about:
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You thought it.
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MISSION UPDATE!
We have just witnessed a very successful three day mission in the great nation of France. It opened with a two-day powerful Word Conference announcing the Coming of the MESSIAH, drawing hungry hearts from across Europe.
The mission then rose to a historic climax during a mega healing service, where the ETERNAL BLOOD OF JESUS flowed with POWER healing, restoring and delivering multitudes. Cripples stood and walked, the blind received sight, the deaf heard, and many conditions under the sun were instantly healed, all for the GLORY OF JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
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MENENGAI 8: WHEN GOD VISITED A GENERATION
We continue to commemorate a massive and unprecedented revival, in Menengai 8, where multitudes gathered in one field to worship and to encounter a mighty visitation of GOD.
In this holy assembly, the crippled walked, the blind saw and countless conditions were healed as the power of THE ETERNAL BLOOD OF JESUS was openly displayed among His people.
The Kingdom of THE MESSIAH is coming.
Prepare the way in holiness and righteousness.
@swamathai@KenyanSays Reading the Bible holistically, have you read the Acts of Apostles. Peter and John made a deliberate effort to publicize the Blind man who was healed at The Gate called Beautiful for the sake of message.Miracles are publicized not for the showbiz but to attract people to Christ.