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jackhammer · 10-10-2008, 06:16 PM

So even by your own words you admit that other continents have had a hand in Africa's slow economic growth and not just Europe. Your original post suggested that Africas ill's were down to European intervention and that we completely ****ed the continent. Guess what? Europe is made up of over 50 countries and a few never bothered making the journey. Making generalisations like that is akin to suggesting that every single state in America contributed to the indigenious population to diminish.

There is no doubt that European influence greatly affected African stability but to hold a whole continent responsible for all of Africas ill's is shortsighted.

Besides, Britain was too busy fecking up India to worry about Africa

10-10-2008, 06:16 PM	#76 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	So even by your own words you admit that other continents have had a hand in Africa's slow economic growth and not just Europe. Your original post suggested that Africas ill's were down to European intervention and that we completely ****ed the continent. Guess what? Europe is made up of over 50 countries and a few never bothered making the journey. Making generalisations like that is akin to suggesting that every single state in America contributed to the indigenious population to diminish. There is no doubt that European influence greatly affected African stability but to hold a whole continent responsible for all of Africas ill's is shortsighted. Besides, Britain was too busy fecking up India to worry about Africa __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”