Georgias dismisses Studio 7 claims

Voice America is a propaganda organization that is the th piece of the corporate America for the IMF/Worldbank/Euro Developmnt Bank et al. If one undertakes a serious analysis of the West and its last 3 century’s actions it does not reflect upon western country’s concerns for the welfare of Africa and African people.
Unfortunately, Africa still hinges on the financial support of western donors and aid agencies to survive and to lift itself from economic bondage. It is a fact that Africa’s policies are still defined by those who provide assistance in the form of aid and loans. When policies are defined in such a way, consideration is first and foremost given to how the donor country can benefit. And sometimes the criteria is solidly based on the untapped resources of the recipient country.
There could be other strategic reasons why a country can also benefit from direct financial assistance. Whether the country offers a strategic military potential in that country’s defence policy can also be a determining factor. For instance, the United States of America has increased number of military bases in Africa supposedly to help in its fight against terrorism. Historically, western donor countries use this advantage to have a leverage on how a country governs itself and its people. Self serving human rights and democracy card is always at the heart of this political game of chess. And almost all the time this is used to camouflage the donor country’s real intentions, while behind the scenes they pressure the recipient country to deliver on their demands. Africa has mostly suffered with marginal benefits from this. Deliberate attempt is made to use rogue regimes to access much needed resources to satisfy the donor country’s industrial sector demands.
In such cases, the political make-up of the recipient country becomes irrelevant; only the direct economic benefit becomes vital. China’s actions have been condemned by the west, but the Chinese are also fully aware of the nasty political game the west plays to advance its own interest in Africa, So, they could care less and most times get away with the worst political partnerships they forge.
Western countries use their formidable international media (VOA) presence to cry down the Chinese and use China’s poor human rights record to discourage its entry into the African market. Some African countries have even been threatened of assistance withdrawal if they do business with China. But China has played the assistance game carefully. Selecting regimes that it knows share some of its hatred of western ideology and offers financial protection in return for access to minerals or other resources. China uses its economic clout cleverly, and quiet diplomacy is always at the heart of China’s relationship with African countries. China knows what Africa needs – and it caters for this while the west bullies anyone who does not obey their orders. A careful assessment is done case by case with each individual country’s situation carefully considered. China has mastered the art of providing the pressing and relevant needs of a country and in the process made a lot friends in Africa. China has also opened its doors to African business and has even set out to establish an industrial centers to create factories and produce Chinese goods in Africa to reduce shipping costs and for ease of access to European and other African market.
Sierra Leone offers a unique example of this dilemma we face as a continent. The president on assuming office three years ago, was faced with many challenges – problems that he inherited from the previous regime. The new president quickly embarked on challenging the root of the country’s problems, from corruption to stricken poverty. He wasted no time in creating the institutions necessary to address the country’s problems with good governance and an agenda for change at the heart of government policies. But the opposition inspired media in the country set out and embarked on a mission of misinformation and fabricated lies, and even went to the extent of referring to the Head of State as corrupt, with bold and pronounced headlines making their way to the already infested internet playground. Disregarding the effects of what all this could have on the country’s image, opposition appointed Editors went on the rampage even further and attacked stakeholders who are directly involved in salvaging the country from the very mess they left it in. Such reckless journalism had no place in the country’s virgin democracy. This is why Africa is not progressing as a continent. Africa plays into the hands of those who don’t want to see African development. Some would prefer to see Africa stagnant in its current crisis of poverty, disease and conflict. But others will continue in their quest to free Africa from its abysmal past with promise of a new era of hope and prosperity offered by the west while imposing illegal sanctions and mounting barriers against any collective struggles Africa mounts.

Einstein, Socrates, Darwin; no philosopher, historian, scholar; political, economic, or social analyst past or present, or that has ever crept from under the cranium of Western thought, could ever justify or deny – within the aptitude of human comprehension – the crimes done to the continent of Africa by people of European persuasion.
The so-called G8 Summit, in which the world’s richest countries (France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, (the G-6, 1975), Canada (the G-7, 1976), and Russia (not participating in all events), as well as the European Union), agree to write off the debt owed by 18 mainly African countries, is a most fraudulent undertaking seeing these very countries gained their riches mainly from the resources of Africa.
This audaciousness fueled with a serious case of denial and arrogance whereby these countries have, by their unwavering greed, underdeveloped, oppressed, and afterward claim that Africa owes them, is a criminal offense that a mere child can recognize and thereby judge.
In a similar scenario, a man walks into another man’s home, eats his food (refurbishing his health), beats his children and ravishes his wife (satisfying his perverted egomaniacal needs), then drains his bank account to fund his own selfish goals. Afterward, when the man and his family have suffered through it all and still manages to survive off the invader’s industry built by the resources of his own household, the invader turns with an insensible arrogance and apathetically offers to relieve the man and his family of debt to him. No true thinker in human history would or logically could agree that this is just.
The deception of Africa owing anything to any country that has prospered industrially or otherwise from Africa’s resources has become so ingrained in the minds of the world that no one can realistically see that Africa owes no one nothing. The world is indebt to Africa, chiefly the West, for use of its many precious resources, historical enlightenment, and great discoveries.
The West, primarily, is due for trial for the crimes against a nation. The robbery, underdevelopment, oppression and rape of its culture, people, and history: spiritual murderers and liars they are, filled with madness pouring from their fallacious notions of world domination.
Not many Black representatives of Africa nor the U.S. realizes that Black people should not feel obligated to repay any illegitimate debt to a people who stand where they stand because of the African Soil.
If there is an effort to rationalize this madness and put it into its proper perspective today, it comes in the words of one African leader who says, “The commission needs to go a lot further to encourage business and trade, which were downplayed in favour of debt relief and aid. It missed a real opportunity to stress trade and economic development through business and trade”.
Instead of moving toward development of Africa, the West would rather attach the label of debtors to the continent because they do not want to compete with Africa on a legal and just scale, but would rather deal underhandedly with her. This is the mark of a true autocrat, enemy, and con artist.
Many of Euro-thinking would suppose that anyone should repay debts if someone grants them a loan, and this is correct by the standards of natural law, however, how can one justify repaying someone who stole the money for the loan from the very people they made the loan to in the first place?
The Bible says, “owe no man nothing,” which does not necessarily mean monetary debt, but the possession of a mind-set that comes along with owing, which is a burden of oppression. As long as a person believes they owe, they will carry that burden around until they are released from the debt or until they die.
Africa and Black America will remain dead to finance until they realize and walk upright with the knowledge that in essence, they owe no man nothing, especially the man who robbed them.

I agree with you @Nyoni but I find it hard to accept some of @Ed Melik,Esq points about the Chinese winning more friends in Africa.These guys tend to import their Chinese working stands to the workers in disregards of our local labour laws and they tend to withhold vital technical and technological information to ensure that locals remain ignorant of their equipment thus making us more dependent on them.
You give Siera Leone as an example of this so-called success story, but have you seen what is happening in these factories to support your claims.Are they doing everything possible to transfer knowledge to the locals?These guys are very secretive with their technology,so they give you just the basic so that when major faults happen you have to keep on calling them. In short,we should not shower praises to the new masters and then regret it in about 20 years time when they have cleaned us of our minerals, like our former colonizers.It is sometimes better to deal with the devil you know instead of the new one with unknown long term intentions.
I think the west is not afraid of fair competition since they have sophisticated technology and durability of their products.Africa knows that,this is why most cars and heavy durable machinery still comes from the west.