Africans know their history and they know their present reality. They understand why they live on the most resource abundant continent in the world (and potentially the richest), yet their lives are the most miserable. The wealth of natural resources from Africa has been exploited by the West for literal centuries, leaving the African people in a position where they never benefitted from what they had to offer.

The West has always controlled the African continent if not militarily, then through the African leaders themselves. African leaders who’ve protested the nature of the Afro-Euro relationship have often been deposed, removed or killed (in the case of Patrice Lumumba in Zaire) in order to install a leader willing to allow Europeans to exploit the resources. Never has Europe and the West offered anything in return for this exploitation, and I think mdern-day Africans have had enough of the same old Euro bullshit.

It’s happening all over the southern part of the world, and Africa is looking to get on board. Europe is losing its ability to threaten and intimidate others in order to control the globe (and that’s what white supremacy is all about–control).

Africa unite!

However, there needs to be more analysis on the south-south cooperation, which exists only in the ideals of the ones who wishe to make ti a reality. There is south-south cooperation in the form of ALBA (Ecuador-Bolivia-Venezuela) but that’s about it.

The article needs to adopt a point of view, that is less the bad europeans and the courageous but poor africans. There is some part of chinese definition of development/ involment in Africa that needs to be criticized objectively. No training is being done so that a future development in Africa is foreseable, it is still much more in the form of extraction of resources and basic survival wages (same wages that souther african miners are paid!)

Incidentally, the EU Commission President expresses the position of the Commission, not that of any Member State. When someone is so laughably ignorant of such an elementary aspect of the EU’s functioning, how can we take anything he says very seriously?

By the way, Mr Chandan appears to be a member of the Socialist Labour Party, a party I’ve never heard of, but which I assume to be part of what we in Europe call “the loony left”. He stood as a candidate in Britain’s 2001 general election in a London constituency and got all of 756 votes (the seat was won by Labour). Still, that was better than in 2005, when his party’s candidate got 296 votes but did, at least, squeak through in front of the Monster Raving Loony Party, which got a mere 248!