Why do Africans always have dictators like Idi Amin, Charles Taylor...
 

What a fucked up place. Congo, Uganda, Liberia...that whole continent is so fucked up and brutal.

probably their religion(s) due to extreme mysticism.

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Your signature is quite...umm....impressive...

haha funnny sig.. cant tell if its real or fake tho, too small to really look.

1. Most african countries have just recently emerged out of colonial administration and naturally the power vacuum lures all kinds of bloody tyrants.

2. The national borders drawn by colonial powers are in conflict with regional tribes and their movements in much of Africa. This naturally creates warfare. One has to almost wonder if the situation was not engineered by outsiders.

damn where have you guys been? I've posted a whopping 153 times :thumbsup

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I posted something about this the other day
let me find it yo

here is what I posted in Colin's thread the other day:

it is not racist to defend imperialism. africa has gone to hell for the past 30-50 years after the british pulled out and gave african nations "independence", look what it has cost.. untold lives.

we have liberia (war going on 15 years), the congo (on going for 20 years), zimbabwe who were once producing enough food to feed the entire region now relying on hand outs thanks to their resident dictator, South Africa with an explosion (and denial) of aids and racial attacks against the remaining white population being covered up, Sierra Leone which has just been relatively stabilized after 15 years of civil war which saw rebels hack off peoples limbs in an indescriminate manner and of course who can forget Uganda with idi amin (sp), plus a number of other nations... Nigeria for example is totally corrupt yet is held up as a "regional superpower".

Where you have exploitable resources but no government accountability and a leadership structure interested only in self enrichment and power with no morals and values, you will always have corruption, plunderring, anarchy type living, death, destruction, torture, and endless warfare for control over those resources.

KRL:

Oddly that sounds just like some other places that are not part of the African content, but closer to home :1orglaugh

Must be the nature of the beast!

Probably because the US gouvernement help thoose fucker to take over the country then the US gouverment can make money :thumbsup

Everyone knows pulling out is not a good idea. Europe pulled out.

Seriously though, many of these nations have dozens of tribes all vying for power. There is not widespread acceptance of any particular ruler or political system. That's because people identify more with their tribe than the nation they happen to reside in.

Many regions of the world have had similar conflicts until power was sufficiently consolidated either through elimination of competing tribes, sufficient cultural homogeneity, or a conquering foreign culture - parts of the Americas being good examples.

The west wasn't born overnight. It took millenia for the concept of a nation-state to take hold. It takes quite a bit of power and sufficient social capital to hold a nation-state together.

The death-rate due to warfare is higher among tribes than nation-states - even including the world wars. Don't have a reference page handy on that but it's in Howard Bloom's book "The Lucifer Principle".

love the pic in your quote man...

great flick! :)

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Love that movie. ;-)