Ethiopia Often I wonder what would remain if magically all the foreign influences were removed from East Africa. Pull the imposed NGO’s western concept of development, the meddling of the missionaries, slavers and merchants; carve out the sleazy modern culture of bitches and gangsters along with its older ideals of individualism and free markets. Good bye to the Arab aristocratic types and Indian businessmen and the public education transplanted from Europe. What is left? Certainly it is Africa. But what is it? I can’t see it. What is the African method, religion, culture, economics that is adapting or resisting the outside influences? Where there is no development there is poverty, no education there is ignorance, no markets there is stagnation. With no foreign born or educated business men, educators, politicians, aid workers, priest….. you get the
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