Lack of imagination is a terrible tragedy in an individual. On a national scale, it is a catastrophe of biblical level. This explains the parasitism of our leaders
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Here is the most important thing to understand about the argument you are making.
It is not new.
Every generation of people who have benefited from the extraction of African wealth has produced a version of your argument to explain why the extraction is not the explanation.
In the 18th century it was: they are heathens, without Christian civilization they are nothing.
In the 19th century it was: they are savages, the white man's burden is to civilize them.
In the early 20th century it was: they are childlike, they need colonial administration to function.
In the mid 20th century it was: they are not ready for self-governance, independence is premature.
In the late 20th century it was: their cultures are incompatible with development, corruption is intrinsic.
In the 21st century it is: they choose not to educate themselves, they are savage toward the volunteers who try to help, look at the IQ map.
The conclusion is always the same: the people being extracted from are the explanation for their own condition.
The mechanism changes every generation.
The conclusion does not.
Because the conclusion is not the result of the analysis.
The conclusion is what the analysis is constructed to protect.
You are not making an observation about Africa.
You are participating in a long, self-serving, continuously updated tradition of providing intellectual cover for an arrangement that has worked very well for some people and very badly for others.
An arrangement that requires, in every generation, a new vocabulary for the same old story.
The story is old.
The vocabulary is yours.
But the function is identical.
@wmnjoya@Very_Maureen Yes. And in plenty. Apparently, those conservancies are not just about wildlife. That is a facade. The real deal is the wealth beneath. Head of stories of mining going on in BATUK controlled areas.