It has been reported that the President of The Sudan blames Western neo-colonialists for the problems in Darfur in light of the judgment that just came down at The Hague and as a result is expelling aid groups in the area who he claims are fomenting rebellion. This is a sad trend. I realize Ian Smith Rhodesian’s regime was racist and that apartheid was an abomination and that African’s still fear neo-colonialism (one must wonder about China’s true motives on the African sub-continent), but when the President of South Africa refuses to condemn Mugabe and parrot his claims that the uproar over his regime is fueled by their old masters. Not only this but South Africa, so long the most prosperous country is going to hell in a hand basket. It really is sad there was such in the ‘60s when freedom was achieved in most countries and it is true that hundreds of years of subjugation left no one competent enough to make a go of it. Divide and conquer and no blacks in the higher echelons of government spelled disaster, for example the Congo’s first head of state, Patrice Lumumba was a postal clerk. Many must be torn by the guilt that we made the mess in Rhodesia and should not become paternal and rescue failed states and yet with staggering inflation and driving white farmers off the most productive people are starving and typhoid runs rampant. What are we to do?
photo from Ben Heine
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