once wild

annlarimer:

anirishginger:

nutopiancitizen:

fuck, do africans have any of their resources for them left to use for the benefit of their own people at all? 

get that filth out of there

I believe the standard answer is, “Don’t be silly, they wouldn’t know what to do with them.”

This really makes me want to cry, especially when I think about all the conversations I had with my Tanzanian friends who kept asking, “Why?  Why don’t we have any resources to aid in our development.”  Because the truth is that there are tons of Tanzanians—tons of Africans, I’d wager—who’d love to help develop their country if only they had access to the resources that belong to them.  Too often the refrain from the Form VI students I’d talk to were, “I’d love to study Engineering but Tanzanian lacks resources.”  ”I’d love to study medicine but Tanzania lacks resources so that I could afford to bring medicine to my village.”  ”I’d love to but.”

How can there be development without resources?  How can we excuse behavior that takes resources from others and then “gives a portion back” as charity?

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