Immigration needs to stop now

No it was not, the reason for colonialism was to secure trade routes with the far east and south Asia

Yes because clearly instead of going through the Suez Canal, it would be much better if the trade just went through the whole of South and Central Africa to Europe You clearly don't know anything about this and obviously you'd rather be blind in your ignorance than look up what happened.

Bye Bye

It would be nice if the people expected to make a difference actually did though... rather than leaving it down to philanthropy :/

I am asking you what minerals were allegedly stolen at the time of British colonialism, how much of these minerals were stolen etc ?

I am not asking about curent gold mining operations. And fyi gold mining in SA has made it one of the wealtheist economies in Africa. Stop changing the subject.

i couldn't rep this because i repped ur previous post

personal rep for you brah

when it will let me rep again lol...

FFS, gold was the main mineral that Britain wanted during British colonialism (read a book) and as how much, again, they did not put this on public records for very very obvious reasons (not to you though).

But gold was a secondary goal, the primary was enslavement of the population, used as free labour with no rights whatsoever. When a nation is enslaved for centuries upon centuries it cannot progress economically or technologically and as I said we are still doing it......well, we pay them peanuts so they can procure everything for our well being and advancement and not theirs.

Luckily during my years as a student I met many Africans in my class studying for engineering and the majority went back to their country and are offering this knowledge to help their people. From what I see they start to wake up. Unfortunately big western corporations are still stealing everything they have.

Immigration in moderation is the best thing that could happen to a country.

Yes because clearly instead of going through the Suez Canal, it would be much better if the trade just went through the whole of South and Central Africa to Europe You clearly don't know anything about this and obviously you'd rather be blind in your ignorance than look up what happened.

Bye Bye

Dutch interventionBeginning in the 17th century, the Netherlands began exploring and colonizing Africa. While the Dutch were waging a long war of independence against Spain, Portugal had temporarily united with Spain, starting in 1580 and ending in 1640. As a result, the growing colonial ambitions of the Netherlands were mostly directed against Portugal.

For this purpose, two Dutch companies were founded: the West Indies Company, with power over all the Atlantic Ocean, and the East Indies Company, with power over the Indian Ocean.

The West India Company conquered Elmina in 1637 and Luanda in 1640. In 1648, they were expelled from Luanda by the Portuguese. Overall the Dutch built 16 forts in different places, including Goree in Senegal, partly overtaking Portugal as the main slave-trading power.

The Dutch left a lasting impact in South Africa, a region ignored by Portugal that the Dutch eventually decided to use as station in their route to East Asia. Jan van Riebeeck founded Cape Town in 1652, starting the European exploration and colonization of South Africa.

Copied from wikipedia and shows your lack of knowledge. Read a book ****.

Precious metals. Africa was once very rich in them. They still have quite a lot of resources but the poor have no access to them themselves and often are forced to mine for international companies.

Without a fairer distribution of wealth (as in the west) and a tighter control on dictatorships that want to keep the poor, poor, there will be little access to education and the poor are kept poor and uneducated.

just send all your immigrants over to canada. we'll take em, and honestly i think they'd be better off

Are you saying the article is false ?

As you say, it still is -- naturally richer in many cases than the developed world. Despite most of its inhabitants being very poor due to bad leadership and civil warfare, the Democratic Republic of Congo, for example, has mineral resources that if extracted and sold would be worth more than the GDP of the United States and the whole of Europe combined.

The fact is that international companies have the experience and expertise best to get such materials out of the ground as well as the capital and equipment etc.: it's by spurning international companies that the natural resources sit there doing no good for anyone, since poor Africans aren't suddenly going to form mining corporations. It's like if I were to find oil in my hypothetical back garden: I don't have the resources to extract it, so the best option would be to sell rights to a mining company and thereby gaining a substantial portion of the profits, rather than leaving it there until I have the ability and resources to get it out the ground and flog it myself (i.e. never). It might not be 'just', if anything ever is, that the mining corporations get their hands on my mineral wealth simply because of their size and expertise, but it's the best solution for everyone involved.

It's pretty risible that you consider the West to have a fair distribution of wealth though. The US and UK have very similar levels of inequality to most African countries; it's merely that we have much more money, not that it's generally any more evenly distributed. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality)

In a lot of African countries there isn't a big problem with income inequality for 99% of the population but you do get a handful of people in government with billions of dollars and are among the richest people in the world with property, investments and sovereign funds in other countries. This is money which should belong to the domestic community but is siphoned off and severely damages the country. There's also the problem of corruption and oil companies offering bungs to politicians in return for not paying taxes or compensating the local community damaged by pollution, oil spills etc. which also harm the economy.

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