And the campaign to buy Western remains as fierce as ever. It is the mission of the IMF and the World Bank. Our labour remains dirt-cheap. Our raw materials go for a song. Our markets are tightly captive.
Hunger is our lot.
For it is we who oversee the phenomenon where many physically, mentally and economically crippling activities for long in decline or dead in the West itself are extremely luxuriant in Africa. The tobacco business is a good example. In the West, mass action and has forced the official hand to act against this stupidity. And smoking is declining apace. But, in Africa, highly educated compradors are being used by Western owners to defend this mass murder, claiming that it is a boon to our economies.