Everyone is hot tempered … Just take away just a days food and you’ll know what i mean..

(2) Corruption… Corruption in Africa by Africans is to deprive AFRICA. When the Brits bribed some Saudis to buy arms from the Brits, the benefits flowed to the Brits.

(P.S. I am not advocating corruption by the giver… I am saying that the ‘givers’ are doing it to benefit their countries whereas Africans engage in corruption it to deprive their countries)

First – only a HANDFUL of people made those inventions MANY YEARS AGO – and many were not even american. It’s crazy how AN ENTIRE SOCIETY of people who can’t even do BASIC MATH to manage their personal finances would want to take credit for the work of a few brilliant good people. Such logic is fallacious – but you are probably too dumb to know it.

What have you personally (and about 300 million fellow americans) invented lately? N.O.T.H.I.N.G.

Yet you gleefully extrapolate on a few serendipitious discoveries by OTHERS and claim them to be proof of YOUR intelligence… hmmm…. thats not smart.. you just exposed your ignorance and narrow mindedness…

Who made technology and materials the universal yardstick? Think about it… I know its hard for you to see beyond your own materialistic culture – but just try for moment.

Third its not just the bankers. The it’s entire “system”: founded on FALSEHOODS and INCOMPETENCE. The world is LESS SAFE – thanks to western foreign policy. On average american people are poorer than the poorest Africans (-ve net worth). Western Families are mostly disfunctional with highest divorce rates in the world. Children go to school to murder other children. Mothers humiliate their kids by putting them on leashes like dogs (its a fact – google it).. etc etc I could go on and on.

Like a typical “redneck”, you look at other cultures using the narrow telescopic vision of your own culture. You measure human value by looking at things – rather than the essense of humanity: the INTANGIBLES that define our HUMANITY (compassion, love, social norms, ethics, family values, generousity, respect, ethics, empathy, openness to learning etc).

So what’s wrong with Agriculture? What’s wrong with harnessing nature? We don’t have a hoarding instinct. Amassing wealth for selfish use is still a new concept for us.

The colonialists destroyed a lot of African knowledge and history. They re-wrote “african history” and “science” using their language and books and forced African kids to read manufactured propaganda as part of their brainwashing campaign to get on top of the food chain. Essentially erasing our ancestors knowledge, inventions and achievements!

We had medicine before colonialism. We had education. We had an economy and trading system. We had currency (e.g. cowrie shells). We had international trade with Arabs and the Portuguese. We had laws, political systems that worked, armies, strategists, humane weapons (compare to real WMDs like Nuclear bombs) etc etc African systems WORKED. Africa was ALRIGHT before colonialism.

Look at the challenges facing western cultures:

1. Children go to school to murder other children
2. People snap and become serial killers
3. Marriage is not honored – divorce rate is phenomenal
4. Consumerism and materialism is the foundation of western culture. Not values; not ethics, not love; not respect.
5. Immorarity and defficiency in ethics
6. Failed economy
7. Failed leaders
8. Insecurity
9. The entire world despises your arrogance and insensitive behaviour
10. An unhealthy, ignorant population – clueless about the rest of the world

etc etc.. the list is huge! Anyway, I challenge you to give me an intelligent answer to any of the above 10 issues.

It is western racists like you who need to be honest about your society and the massive DAMAGE it has done to this world. Time to eat the humble pie and embrace reality – you have FAILED in your quest for global dominance.

Finally, you probably stole KE’s identity… I’ll wait for KE to *log in* and comment but just in case you did it… I bet you don’t feel so smart at this moment – do you? What happened to your smart genes – did they go dormant for a while?

It’s not about my mind being mentally colonized. At some point, Africans like you need to become very honest about your continent. If it cannot be grown in the soil with a seed or if it cannot be extracted from the ground, we won’t produce it.

Yes, bankers in America have created a mess, but don’t forget that America is still the country that invented the internet, cars, aeroplanes, etc, etc…..

Your coments continue to amaze me. You wrote:

“Maybe Africans should do the same thing. i.e. hand over the management of their countries economies to “smarter” people since we have shown that we clearly can’t do it.”

Are you an African? Shame on you for insulting yourself and your people. You are long overdue for:

1. Mental decolonization
2. Mental decolonization
3. Mental decolonization

Hurry! Before you get a leadership role in Africa and continue to destroy like these old colonially brainwashed men currently in power.

Lest you forget, the “smarter” people are so incompetent taht they have caused the worst economic and security mess in the entire global history – and they dont have a clue how to get out of it!

Nowadays there’s a fine line between politics and economics – hence 100% lack of Government involvement in business is a BLUNDER (ask US Fed Reserve).

Further more Government has broader agenda than pure politics. The tradeoff for creating jobs is lower efficiency. Corruption is inherent in all governments and increased bureaucracy is one side effect of countermeasures.

Strategic operations should remain in the hands of Gov. We should address the ROOT CAUSE rather than the SYMPTOMS. In this case, we should be asking:

1. How can we bring about good governance and pro-society laws?
2. How can we protect ourself from destructive foreign influence – disguised as well meaning assistance (e.g. More AID instead of interest free repayment holidays)
3. How can corruption be fought in Government? Regime change does not remove institutionalized corruption. You only change the “eaters”.
4. How can we block negative propaganda about Africa and Africans to gain ultimate MENTAL FREEDOM from NEO-COLONIALISTS?
5. How can we increase research and innovation in Africa? Do we need to blindly copy Western technology?
6. How can we unite Africa to give us more clout in international politics?
7. How can we learn from the western incompetence and failures to improve our position?
8. Why are we not seeing the opportunities that are currently presenting themeselves to us – to stand up and be proud and take charge of our own affairs – with the looming downflall of imperialist nations?

There is inherent insecurity if a country’s economic lifeline is controlled by foreigners.

I guess this is why the government maintains an interest in some businesses.

And again FOREIGN ownership is not synonymous with EFFICIENCY.

Remember that corruption in Africa is not a one way street. All the PROCEEDS of corruption are banked in Western banks and South East Asian banks recently.

The issue is DISCIPLINE among the local enterpreneurs.

BUT a complete & transparent privatization… not 10% or 20% or 30%… more like 75% thus reducing/eliminating govt ‘control’.

Sell to the public as an IPO (or open public tendering/bidding which is open to all bidders) not private deals like the Grand Regency sale…

KenGen is 70% gov’t owned thus kibz & friends still call the shots…

KPLC is 51%+ owned/controlled by NSSF (controlled in large part by GoK) & Treasury (GoK)…

Ownership of +/- 25% safeguards GoK interests while allowing for a strong challenge from ‘private’ investors… KQ is 23% Treasury & 26% KLM… The rest is owned by the public (most of whom vote with KLM). Thus ‘private’ interests can neutralize GoK’s ‘lethargy’ & inefficiencies & corruption.

Another example is Mumias where it is for all practical purposes… a ‘private’ firm since GoK (incl NSSF ownership) has reduced significantly.

So, if you agree that government run businesses are inefficient, which is generally true, you would support the recent moves by the government to privatize many of it’s parastatals through the IPO process at the NSE.

I have a post coming up on that because I’m not sure what they’re doing.

1. Rule (& implementation) of just laws
2. Defence
3. Provision of ‘common’ goods and services.

Malaysia could have been far more successful IF they had ‘clean’ institutions. Mahatir started off (sort of) OK but became a dictator. His family became the ‘go-to’ people if you wanted government support. Malaysia did better than Indonesia but oil is what ‘saved’ them.

The irony is that Malaysia kicked out pre-dominantly ‘poor’ Chinese Singapore… and Singapore showed real mettle.

So… I still stand by my argument that GOVERNMENT RUN BUSINESSES are generally inefficient & should be privatized. I agree that it’s better to have competent ‘foreign’ management than incompetent local management. I wish Kenya would hand over KPA to the Singaporeans!

A single example should suffice for now. The ‘old KQ’ was an inefficient & unprofitable entity that required state subsidies. After KLM came in, KQ turned around & is now one of the world’s few airlines that made profits in 2007-8. No more subsidies & it has paid dividends every year since 2004.