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Africa, the origin of mankind, the base for civilization, the richest continent on earth with natural resources (diamond, sugar, salt, gold, iron, cobalt, uranium, copper, bauxite, silver, petroleum and cocoa beans, woods, tropical fruits, wild life...), the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent that having divers culture, norm, thoughts and religion, still suffer from poverty, terrorism, conflict resolution, border closures and immigration, inequality, civil war, poor governance, corruption, unemployment, population growth, insecurity, droughts and famine.

African leaders have continued to acknowledge the requirement for effective crisis management on the continent, leading to the formation of the African Union (AU), which brings together African states in order to find African solutions to African problems. The AU’s institutions, powers and objectives are meant to bring about fundamental shifts away from the constraints imposed on actions under the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Charter, which privileged states to communicate and share economical, social and political conflicts raised from the continent.

Who take the blame for all African Problems?

The African Question: Who Is to Blame?; The Finger Points to the West, And Congo Is a Harsh Example

By the late 1960's, scarcely a decade after Africa's great independence wave had begun, many of the continent's new political creations had already begun to resemble disasters. With no ready answers to their problems, many African leaders struck upon a new strategy for explaining their failings to impatient populations while simultaneously drawing more outside aid: blaming the European colonizers for Africa's seemingly intractable difficulties.

But if this approach was at least temporarily successful in many cases, the increasing stridency of the claims made against the West, set against the backdrop of the growing despotism of the new leaders, quickly backfired, as both foreign sympathy and assistance dwindled.

For the next two decades or so, conventional wisdom largely rejected African assertions of outside responsibility for the continent's problems, and many in the West argued, often with a growing vehemence of their own, that Africa's bad leaders were primarily to blame rather than any European legacy.

In the closing years of this century, though, historians, political scientists and other students of African affairs have begun a searching re-examination of the continent's recent past. Increasingly they have concluded that many of its most persistent curses -- from the plague of ethnic hatred widely known as tribalism to endemic official corruption -- have powerful roots that are at least partly traceable to European subjugation and rule.

Among the writings that helped forge this reconsideration are works like ''Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism,'' by the Ugandan scholar Mahmood Mamdani. Mr. Mamdani's 1996 book draws extensively on colonial records to show how Europeans administered their new subjects through a deliberately authoritarian form of indirect rule -- for which the author coined the term ''decentralized despotism'' -- that greatly reinforced or even created notions of ethnicity, helping set the stage for the tribal conflict that wracks the continent today.

Another work, Basil Davidson's ''Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State,'' depicts the European process of decolonization in Africa as one of hasty, even offhand decision-making filled with a disdain for Africans and their history and an unquestioning arrogance that assumed that the political structures of the West were appropriate for Africans even when they had been given no preparation for making them work. In these and other scholarly works, African specialists have made the point that the example left by European rule was one of politics by sheer domination and not democracy. Then, as is so often the case now, African states were run with little thought to the benefit of their subjects

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The opposite of poverty is not wealth, the opposite of poverty is enough, we are saying Africa have a lot of resources, Africa is a base for mankind, and many things, when we see the cause for all mess and crisis Africa face now a day is root of colonialism whether on a slavery or a globalization its obvious that the world uses African Resources, leaders corrupt their country and led their peoples to poverty, terrorism, conflict resolution, border closures and immigration, inequality, civil war, poor governance, corruption, unemployment, population growth, insecurity, droughts and famine, just for their own comfort and luxuries life.

Africans must say ENOUGH, they have to ask their government/leaders for democracy and proper use of resources. why?

To be Continued....