Western Countries Rob Africa of $60 Billion Every Single Year – By Toyin Dawodu

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Western Countries Rob Africa of $60 Billion Every Single Year – By Toyin Dawodu
February 11, 2015

– No one wants to talk about it and no one will admit to it. But the continent that is richest in natural resources has the poorest inhabitants in the world. Why is that? Global news would have you believe Africans are the problem with Africa. But that’s like trying to force bullying to go away by blaming the kids being bullied.

But no one wants to talk about this, not even Africans. And Western countries are robbing Africa blind while the whole world watches.

When I first saw this story in the Wall Street Journal, the headline piqued my interest, but it was woefully misleading. Western news agencies always report on Africa as if Africa is killing herself. It is not Africans stealing money from Africa and having the money sent abroad. It is big business and Western governments sticking their quick hands and bony fingers into the pot and stealing from Africans. It pisses me off how the media tries to slant the story.

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Western news agencies report on Africa’s challenges as if the problems rest with Africans. Meanwhile, these all-seeing, all-knowing flim flam machines turn a blind eye to the truth because the truth is inconvenient. They can’t blame Western companies, big banks, and government agencies. No! How would they generate ad revenues? How would they pass socially liberal laws? For more than 100 years, the “news” has run the same game on the world and used Africa as its dumping ground.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. I tip, but... I don't think it's only 'Western Countries'.

I seem to recall China had been making news by making inroads into Africa over the last decade or two as well. Yes, colonial and neocolonial exploitation has largely been a 'Western' tradition, but industrialized countries with rising middle classes around the world are trying to 'catch up', and are looking everywhere for resources.