Correct, Zimbabwe was once considered the breadbasket of africa, because it fed half the continent. Before whites came to africa there was no such thing as agriculture in subsaharan africa. The africans were nomadic hunter gatherers.meats wrote:Yep, just looked at how Mugabe has ruined Zimbabwe after he came to power in 1980. What was once a very prosperous country under British rule is now run by a dictator who was put in power by a Zimbabwean by the name of Wilfred Mhanda. Very dearly beloved against the whites there producing the majority of their wealth (farmers) and now there's a huge famine there because the blacks have very little idea about farming. It got so bad that the black Zimbabweans were even claiming asylum in the UK!ProudWhiteEuropean wrote:And at least the descendants of the people who lived under British rule, are able to enjoy the benefit that the British brought to their colonies. Benefits such as technology, infrastructure, engineering, science, industry, agricultural techniques and methods, medical science and tech nology etc. etc. The list goes on. And despite atrocities and oppression committed by the british, at least their ex colonies live with the benefits we brought them to this day. I am also glad they are able to benefit from the massive aid packages, financial incentives, and foreign investment granted to them on a yearly basis.meats wrote:No it doesn't. And let's be honest, the British Empire was one of the best things to happen to the world.Lost Soul wrote:
The British colonised half the world and subjected indigenous people to their religion, customs, morals and beloved. Now that this great empire has collapsed these previously oppressed should be entitled to colonise the mother country. Good luck to them.
This year alone Britain has given india for instance billions of pounds in aid, and the eu has granted them 1 billion euros to clean up the holy ganges, this is a country with its own space programm and ballistic nuclear weapons yet they rely on european and british aid to assit with poverty.
Britian has given tens of billions along with tens of billions of euros to african ex colonies to devlop renewable energy sources for their countries.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
The whites introduced agricultural techniques and technology and built zimbabwe to become one of the most prosperous africans nations. Unfortunatley the africa have ruined it once they gained independance.
I can point to many articles written by zimbab journalists who have stated that life was better under British occupation, zimbabwe africans enjoyed the highest standard of living, lowest infant mortality, and we higher educated, all directly through British rule.
here is a letter from a Zimbabwean Profesor lecturing at Cambridge University. Written in a Zimbabwe newspaper.
Nigerian Guardian Newspaper
LETTERS
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
South African experience
SIR: On Thursday October 1, 2009, the National Chairman of our great party Chief Bisi Akande; the Lagos State Chairman of the Party in Lagos, Chief Dele Ajomale; his wife; the representative of the Governor and my humble self left for South Africa to inaugurate the chapter of our party. Business finished on Saturday October 2 and 3, 2009 in both Pretoria and Johannesburg. We had Sunday October 4 to look around. It was my first visit to South Africa and what I saw stunned me.
Am I in Africa or Europe? Am I in America? Is this another Singapore? Could this be true? Where was Nigeria when South Africa was putting all these structures in place? If the white man did all these in South Africa why were the Nelson Mandelas of this world complaining? If South Africans got their independence on a platter of gold the way Nigeria got hers in 1960, would there have been all these structures I am seeing here today? Impossible! From what I saw on ground in South Africa, it looked as if all the companies and industries all over the world are physically present there. Ah! Nigeria has been left behind. South Africa is the potential and undisputable leader in Africa. Thanks to the white South Africans.
I came to the unhappy conclusion that the mosquitoes that drove the whites away from Nigeria in 1960 did a colossal and unmitigated damage to Nigerians. I again asked myself these questions: How many black Africans did the whites kill before surrendering power to them? How many Nigerians have been killed by Nigerian leaders since they took over power from the whites in 1960? Let us compare the figures. I am sure the supreme prize South Africans paid to have the South Africa I see today will be so infinitesimal compared with what our leaders have killed to remain in power in Nigeria.
What I am saying is that God should have allowed the whites to tarry for at least more 30 years in Nigeria and we would have been better for it. Mandela survived 27 years in prison because the whiteman was a better person. He could not have survived 10 years in prison in Nigeria.
My conclusion after seeing what I saw in South Africa is that the whites left Nigeria in a hurry, and that is why we are suffering today. Had the whites tarried in Nigeria, Nigeria would have been like South Africa today. I want the whites back in Nigeria!
Dr. Joe Igbokwe,
Lagos.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 917276.ece
'It was better under Ian Smith,' say Zimbabweans
The death of Ian Smith, the former prime minister of Rhodesia, was marked by official revilement in Zimbabwe today.
The view was different for Ambrose Madzovha, sitting in a crowded minibus on his way to work as a bar bottlewasher. “There was one war veteran (a member of one of President Mugabe’s militias) in the bus who was saying Smith was very rough,â€
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