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[QUOTE]Originally posted by lamin: [QB] Doug, You are getting rattled by the facts put to you. Human agency is the key here--and you are ignoring that key factor. The issue here is corruption. This is how corruption works in Africa. Governments set up their budgets annually with each Ministry getting its own budget. But given the weak civil societies in Africa, the Ministers take huge kick-backs for contracts awarded or just pocket most of what their budgets are worth. These are individuals who know how badly underfunded roads, hospitals, government schools, water resources, etc. are but feel no compunction or guilt at their crimes of theft and negligence. Come election time where rural illiterates are bribed with bags of rice, yams, maize, or just raw cash to vote for a candidate. No guilt or sense of wrong-doing on both sides. People vote stupidly only on the basis that their chosen candidate speaks their language--for the most part. Or that their chosen candidate is a Muslim or Christian. Most of these ministers and politicians have spent lots of time in Europe and even own houses there and have their children educated there---thereby [b[ giving them a chance to see how things are done more efficiently in France, Britain, Germany, Scandinavia. But they never seek to implement the same in their home countries.[/b] Surely, they are in unequal partnerships with their neocolonial patrons in the West--[b] but these are choices of human agency they make. They could do otherwise--if they wanted[/b] Point: Nigerian Congress persons are most highly paid politicians in the world. Yet they achieve nothing of note--except to enrich themselves and behave very arrogantly. This is hardly due to tutelage from the West. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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