Comments on: Celebrating Africa’s Ugly on Earth Day http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/18/celebrating-africas-ugly-on-earth-day/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Wed, 23 May 2012 06:36:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Xholiso Vundla http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/18/celebrating-africas-ugly-on-earth-day/comment-page-1/#comment-55699 Xholiso Vundla Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:49:20 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/2008/04/18/celebrating-africas-ugly-on-earth-day/#comment-55699 Well said! What's there to celebrate when half the world have it good while the other half slave for them with debt burdens and aid restrictions? The West should cancel all of Africa's debt and provide tangible unconditional aid not biscuits and peanuts... I also blame it on brain drain. Africa's best doctors and engineers work in Europe, Canada and USA. What are they doing for their continent? The lure of money is greater than love for country? China and India are surging ahead because the best brains are back in their homelands taking charge of the economic re-discovery. And consuming a third of the world's food in the process causing global food crisis! Well said! What’s there to celebrate when half the world have it good while the other half slave for them with debt burdens and aid restrictions? The West should cancel all of Africa’s debt and provide tangible unconditional aid not biscuits and peanuts…

I also blame it on brain drain. Africa’s best doctors and engineers work in Europe, Canada and USA. What are they doing for their continent? The lure of money is greater than love for country?

China and India are surging ahead because the best brains are back in their homelands taking charge of the economic re-discovery. And consuming a third of the world’s food in the process causing global food crisis!

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