This has been partly responsible for Africans in contemporary times always looking to the West for solutions to economic and social problems. The West have also nourished this by the consistent and suffocating dramatization of African failure in Western books and the media. Africa is experiencing economic crises. As hunger, war, poverty, economic collapse devastate many parts of Africa, many Africans who are young, educated, and skilled are fleeing the continent for the more comfortable Western world and else where. While opportunities for blacks in the US have tremendously improved since the mid 1960s, drugs and crime continue to ravage African American neighbourhoods.
Racism is still here.
The black male has continued to be decimated through homicides, crime, and imprisonment. Families headed by single impoverished African American women is the norm. Old solutions will not solve these problems. There is a need to find new solutions to these problems both in the African continent and among African Americans. D at Michigan State University in 1987.