Aid for Africa?

Because, after all these years, many countries in Africa still depends Western aid? Has such aid truly helped the situation or encouraged them to let others do for them what they will not do for themselves? (As the saying goes, you can give a man a fish and he'll eat once or you can teach him to fish and he'll eat a lot of times). This assistance is truly served the long-term interests of Africa or simply self-interest of bureaucracies flourish?

Why the white world Westerners seem more concerned for the welfare and safety of many Africans to tyrannical leaders of Africa? I raise this question because the West is usually despised as former colonialists and imperialists and is no longer welcome to govern with its law and order But it is asked to bail out African Countries after Their elected leaders rip them off ( swelling foreign bank accounts) and strip them naked from countries mismanagement painful.

Productive white farmers in Zimbabwe, for example, have brutally expelled from their family farms by squatters of color that do just that - squat - and the earth is at rest and orphan starving country. Yet racist Mugabe still in power (no visits by Jesse Jackson or a coalition of African-American ministers outraged about this reverse discrimination or threats of sanctions by the UN divided).

Here are some of (exacerbated by my experiences and observations), travel-writer Paul Theroux does in his book Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town.

I was fortunate to have also visited parts of Africa, after taking trains, planes and automobiles (hitchhiked for the most part) from Johannesburg to Cape Town, South Africa, the Garden Route to Durban, Swaziland, Kruger National Park and again in Johannesburg, Pretoria and the Voortrekker Monument National (not standing still?), while traveling to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia).

I met an English girl on the train in Bulawayo I met near George, South Africa and came up with Bunji-bridge weeks before a trip back to Johannesburg.

I then went to Tel Aviv, Israel before coming to Home Sweet Home (USA).

May God bless Africa with genuine leaders who love their people and who put their people above their personal ambitions and temptations.