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Without any knowledge of history or politics, it would be safe to assume that the people who inhabit the countries like the DRC who supply 80% of the world’s Coltan used in the production of almost all electronic devices would be unfamiliar with poverty. The same assumption goes for many other African nations that sit on vast quantities of fuels, metals and minerals, but, the reality is, these people remain the most financially oppressed despite the glutinous wealth of the foreign multi-national corporations. For example, there are 26 countries with extreme poverty rates over 40%, and only two of them are outside the continent of Africa. Ironically most multi-national corporations all have their wealth rooted in these countries.
This type extortionary business model isn’t new. Capitalism has been running long and strong to the point where the empathic part of western society saw the damaging effects of their privilege and created an entire industry called charity. Sadly, over time, the ideals of charity have become corrupted, the same legal loopholes that allowed for corporations to overpower entire governments and outsmart human rights laws, have crept in to a once altruistic space. Under the administration of the United Nations across the worlds crisis zones, have any of the nation’s risen out of poverty? If anything, the rate of poverty has risen in many nations. Did you know more than 3billion people, that’s nearly 50% of the world’s population live on less than $2.50 a day. Over 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty on less than $1.25 a day. The most impoverished 40% of the world’s population, accounts for 5% of global income. The richest 20% accounts for three-quarters of world income.
Having been on the ground in many of the places where the United Nations and other NGO’s operate, I myself share the opinion very similar to the peoples of the artificially impoverished nations, and that is, that Charity is the contemporary socially acceptable word for colonisation.
There was no charity in Africa when it was colonised. Take the case of Ethiopia. Two decades ago there were 70 international charities operating there, continued…. | Posted on 04/Jun/2020 11:08:03
