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A.B. PobuwoloTowaye
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What are the root causes of violence and poverty in Africa?
February 2, 2007 - 02:28 AM
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Dear Peace builders, Africa is one of the world best continent with alot of talented people, but it remains one of the poorest continent with all of the natural resources, ranging from gold, timber, oil, irone ore, rubber,fertile lands,etc. that other continents don't have.
With all of these natural resources, what are the root causes of violence and poverty in Africa and how can these problems be minimize?
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Re: What are the root causes of violence and poverty in Africa?
February 2, 2007 - 04:14 AM
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That is a very complicated question you ask. Many of these conflicts are very difficult to understand. Africa has a long history. Many of the conflicts derive from ante-colonial Africa, many from the colonial period, when straight borders were drawn on a map without taking the tribes in account. I have to go now, but i will work on a detailed answer later.
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Re: What are the root causes of violence and poverty in Africa?
February 2, 2007 - 04:59 AM
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The dominant forces of poverty and violence are poor governance as well lack of economic growth.
Africa, a continent endowed with immense natural and human resources as well as great cultural, ecological and economic diversity, remains underdeveloped.
Most African nations suffer from military dictatorships, corruption, civil unrest and war, underdevelopment and deep poverty.
It is not easy to understand this without having historical background of Africa.
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Re: What are the root causes of violence and poverty in Africa?
February 2, 2007 - 08:56 AM
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When traced backwards, Africa has been living with all those natural resources and knowing little or none of it's values, also knowing NO how to preserve nor make use of the resources untill the coming of whites.
I could say here that the whites knowing how to put those resources into usage then sees it as an opportunity to maniplate Africans by bring in a gift of magic mirrow and guns in exchange of the resources , then none African has seen anything like mirrow that reflects ones image exactly or weapon like gun that can take away life in an instant shot and the whites being trickish here , handed over those items to the kings and rulers of those days who sees the mirrow as power and the guns as weapon to kill any of their opposing brethen and later this encourage them to start selling away their people who are sturbon into slavery and this is the brain child of dictatorship in Africa, because each one want to get control over the resources and sell them to the whites to make money in those days and send their children and relations to Oxford, Cambridge and world best unversities of those day while the remaining mases be their servants. Should I say it is still happening indirectly nowdays and infact this is where the violence and poverty started in Africa because now everyone want to lead his people so that himself will have freedom and power to control over while the less priviledge suffers the consequence.This is "power hustlers".   
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Re: What are the root causes of violence and poverty in Africa?
February 2, 2007 - 01:29 PM
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inequitable sharing of resources and hunger for power among politicians are possibly some of the reasons resulting in urest/ violence. some violence is mainly resulting from frustration among nationals when they are forced to live under abject poverty, when by right, they should be at a different level altogether- but because of poor governance and leadership, the economies are getting worse.
some few members of the african nationals have developed a 'syndrome' where they do not develop ways and means of trying to get over situations and surving but wait and hope that 'those' fom the cities or the international community will come and assist with this or that or else, see our plight. fellow african nationals, let's get over this 'syndrome'. let's strive and work upwards not sitting down and watching 'us' falling.
while all this might be true, african nationals are seriously affected by both local and international market forces in trade of their products.
as they, for the better part of the colonial era, did not have adequate means of production, after independence, subsidies on some inputs of production were withdrawn following the introduction of the economic structural adjustment programme. this affected most of the african nationals as they had not yet established sufficient capital to develop their means of production or production enterprices to the full.
other natural factors that seem to be more prevalent are drought, floods and pest outbreaks that affect (seriously) agriculture which is the basis of the economy for most african countries.
thee are other factors that also play in the situation but addressing some of these issues could assist.
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Re: What are the root causes of violence and poverty in Africa?
February 4, 2007 - 01:42 PM
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Reasons are many: corrupted governments, inadequate state officials, lack of public infrastructure, lack of education...
Africa suffered a lot under colonizers, especially Portuguese and Dutch... That is part fo the reason.
Nowadays, the problem is the narrow-minded governance of most of African countires.
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Re: What are the root causes of violence and poverty in Africa?
February 12, 2007 - 09:20 PM
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Everyone has given valid reasons as to why these problems exist such as power hunger, corruption, education deficiencies. The real question, though, is why do these problems persist despite huge relief efforts and stabilization projects. I posit that there must be some innate element in Africans that disallows a harmonious society or maybe a lack of some element. There may be racist undertones present, but I can assure this is not the case. We must consider from a logical standpoint why, why when these governments are left to stand alone they crumble, time and time again? Why do our fellow humans suffer so? Again, we must turn to ideas that may carry a stigma of hate and prejudice.
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Re: What are the root causes of violence and poverty in Africa?
February 15, 2007 - 08:53 PM
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i saw a television series called Guns Germs and Steel that tries to answer this very question. For anyone who can get a chance to watch it, it may be helpful to see.
as for my own openion, i believe it is caused by a number of things. a lot of the problems came from those who colonized Africa with complete disregard for its people. as was said before, they drew borders that made no sense from a cultural standpoint and in Rawanda, turned the people against each other by giving those with more "European" features more rights and even creating an ethnic catagory for them. these probles continue to echo today in conflicts between tribes. other problems are religious intolerance and government coruption, both of which have had a major part in the Darfur conflict. as for poverty, much of it comes from political instability and climate. from what I've seen, it is hard for most African farmers to raise enough crops or livestock to make a profit because of the land. even the land that was once made fertal by the Nile has lost its greatness because the presence of dams now prevents it from flooding and washing its nutrients into the surrounding soil.
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