Where is the role Europe played and still plays in Africa's history amongst this boy's foolishness???



"The tragedy of Africa is that the African has never really entered into history ... They have never really launched themselves into the future," Mr Sarkozy said. "The African peasant, who for thousands of years has lived according to the seasons, whose life ideal was to be in harmony with nature, only knew the eternal renewal of time ... In this imaginary world, where everything starts over and over again, there is room neither for human endeavour, nor for the idea of progress.

"The problem of Africa ... is to be found here........

But............

"..... he told Africans to stop blaming the past for their problems.


Only a white man is allowed to do that eh!!! FOOL!!



So I guess Africans should forget about this past as well then...........


The Price Haiti had to pay france for freedom, until 1947

"All of the world was shocked and horrified: It was a “dreadful” example for slaves everywhere. No country gave Haiti formal recognition until much later. USA wouldn't recognise it until 1862, under the excuse that black ambassadors would be a bad example for the local slaves, and France only recognised it in 1825, after Haiti, strangled by an economic blockade, had to accept paying for the estimation France had made of their "losses” with Haiti’s independence: the estimatie was made in a calculation of how much the French had stopped profiting, and for the “price” of all the slaves that had been freed ... civilised manners demand payment for the loss of “property”. The debt Haiti had to pay was originally 150 millions of francs, 44 times the national budget of Haiti at the time. They got into a debt that will last for 100 years with French bankers, and no matter that the debt was further adjusted to 90 million, by the end of the XIX century, this debt absorbed 80% of the national income. It is in this that we find the main reason of Haiti’s apalling poverty. The debt was only cancelled in 1947."

Stop the military occupation of Haiti! - Central America / Caribbean Imperialism / War - Anarkismo


That initial sum, when calculated into modern currency equates to around US$22 Billions.

So when is history important then Mr french revolution? Should Haiti blame its current state on being from a continent and people that has "no history"?


Is it any wonder that soo many Africans educated in European schools of "learning" have serious problems around mental health, liking themselves, their people and homeland??



Is mbeki right to praise Sarkozy?