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What can we learn from Africa? santini297


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Audrey Kitagawa: There are many things that we can learn from Africa. We can learn about the issues of governance. We can learn about the exploitation of peoples, we can learn about the exploitation of their resources, we can learn about the causes of conflict, and we can learn how wealthy, countries that are wealthy in natural resources may not be, have wealthy people. And it is not a disparate, delinked relationship. But as I had shared earlier in a previous question, it is not a coincidence that Africa has the world's most conflicts, that 100 million Africans face conflict every day of the their lives, and that Africa is also the world's wealthiest continent, has some of the world's wealthiest leaders, as well as the world's poorest people. We must not see these as disparate facts, but see the connections that extreme wealth and poverty creates, and to inquire deeply as to why this result has occurred. When we know that Africa has every resource that we have put a high value on, whether it's oil, diamonds, coal can, timber. Then we have to say, yes, what are the lessons that we must learn from Africa? And if Africans now have all this wealth and yet are so dispossessed of the benefits of that wealth, what leverage will they have when all of their resources no longer exist, if today, with all of those resources, they have no leverage at all?