What Utter Hypocrisy
Abdul Bangura
I love you, Sista Hillary, but your regime and racist European allies are doing worse, and even bombing Afrikan Libyans in order to steal their oil and kill the dream of a Pan-Afrikan Union. But you can never kill an idea that will come to fruition in 2017,
Saturday, June 11, 2011 6:29:00 AM EDT
Clinton warns Africa of 'new colonialism'
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Huma Abedin? Photo: AP
African leaders must ensure that foreign projects are sustainable and benefit all their citizens, not only elites, she said. A day earlier, she urged scrutiny of China's large investments and business interests in Africa so that the African people are not taken advantage of.
"We saw that during colonial times, it is easy to come in, take out natural resources, pay off leaders and leave," Clinton said. "And when you leave, you don't leave much behind for the people who are there. We don't want to see a new colonialism in Africa."
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Clinton said the United States didn't want foreign governments and investors to fail in Africa, but they also should give back.
"We want them to do well, but also we want them to do good," she said.
"We don't want them to undermine good governance, we don't want them to basically deal with just the top elites, and frankly too often pay for their concessions or their opportunities to invest."
Clinton said that American development aid and public works projects come with good governance conditions and that the Obama administration is interested in Africa and its people. Their success, she said, is in everyone's long-term interest.
Her comments, in a pan-African television interview in the Zambian capital, followed the handover of a U.S. built pediatric hospital in Lusaka to the Zambian government.
Earlier, at the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-Zambia Chamber of Commerce, Clinton laid out the U.S. strategy for helping Africa.
"We want a relationship of partnership not patronage, of sustainability, not quick fixes," she said. "We want to establish a strong foundation to attract new investment, open new businesses ... create more paychecks, and do so within the context of a positive ethic of corporate responsibility."
"We think it's essential that we have an idea going in that doing well is not in any way a contradiction of doing good," she said.
Clinton is the first secretary of state to visit Zambia since Henry Kissinger came in 1976 to lay out the Ford administration's policy for southern Africa as revolts against white minority rule in South Africa and what was then Rhodesia were intensifying.
Clinton, on the first leg of a three-nation tour of Africa, arrived in Zambia from the United Arab Emirates, where she attended an international conference on Libya. After Zambia, she heads to Tanzania and Ethiopia before returning to Washington next week.
Wale Ade
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Hillary should go and clean up the Delta region if she wants us to believe what she is saying.
They should also leave Libya for the African not sell it to the Arabs interest.
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kenneth harrow
here is where i see the new colonialism. the minister in wade's govt who controls fishing rights just sold them off to a group of major european and asian enterprises. they are emptying the seas of fish off the coast of senegal. the local fisherman are finding it harder and harder to make a living, the senegalese population now finds the staple of their diet, fish, more and more expensive, and eat more and more carbohydrates. people risk dying by paying fishermen to get them by boat to the canaries or spain.
new colonialism. no, it is now old-school globalization, and the biggest fishing trawlers are raking in all the big and little fish off the continent, and making untold sums of money selling the fish in the global north.
it is an example of what neophytes like myself, who know too little about economics, can immediately grasp.
ken
On 6/11/11 3:42 PM, Abdul Bangura wrote:
I love you, Sista Hillary, but your regime and racist European�allies are doing worse, and even�bombing Afrikan Libhyyans in order to steal their oil and kill the dream of a Pan-Afrikan Union. But you can never kill an idea that will come to fruition in 2017,
Saturday, June 11, 2011 6:29:00 AM EDT
Clinton warns Africa of 'new colonialism'
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Huma Abedin? Photo: AP
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) � U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday warned of a creeping "new colonialism" in Africa from foreign investors and governments interested only in extracting natural resources to enrich themselves.
African leaders must ensure that foreign projects are sustainable and benefit all their citizens, not only elites, she said. A day earlier, she urged scrutiny of China's large investments and business interests in Africa so that the African people are not taken advantage of.
"We saw that during colonial times, it is easy to come in, take out natural resources, pay off leaders and leave," Clinton said. "And when you leave, you don't leave much behind for the people who are there. We don't want to see a new colonialism in Africa."
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Clinton said the United States didn't want foreign governments and investors to fail in Africa, but they also should give back.
"We want them to do well, but also we want them to do good," she said.
"We don't want them to undermine good governance, we don't want them to basically deal with just the top elites, and frankly too often pay for their concessions or their opportunities to invest."
Clinton said that American development aid and public works projects come with good governance conditions and that the Obama administration is interested in Africa and its people. Their success, she said, is in everyone's long-term interest.
Her comments, in a pan-African television interview in the Zambian capital, followed the handover of a U.S. built pediatric hospital in Lusaka to the Zambian government.
Earlier, at the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-Zambia Chamber of Commerce, Clinton laid out the U.S. strategy for helping Africa.
"We want a relationship of partnership not patronage, of sustainability, not quick fixes," she said. "We want to establish a strong foundation to attract new investment, open new businesses ... create more paychecks, and do so within the context of a positive ethic of corporate responsibility."
"We think it's essential that we have an idea going in that doing well is not in any way a contradiction of doing good," she said.
Clinton is the first secretary of state to visit Zambia since Henry Kissinger came in 1976 to lay out the Ford administration's policy for southern Africa as revolts against white minority rule in South Africa and what was then Rhodesia were intensifying.
Clinton, on the first leg of a three-nation tour of Africa, arrived in Zambia from the United Arab Emirates, where she attended an international conference on Libya. After Zambia, she heads to Tanzania and Ethiopia before returning to Washington next week.
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----- Original Message -----From: Wale AdeSent: 6/11/2011 11:17:04 AMSubject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - What Utter Hypocrisy
I love you, Sista Hillary, but your regime and racist European allies are doing worse, and even bombing Afrikan Libyans in order to steal their oil and kill the dream of a Pan-Afrikan Union. But you can never kill an idea that will come to fruition in 2017,
Saturday, June 11, 2011 6:29:00 AM EDT
Clinton warns Africa of 'new colonialism'
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Huma Abedin? Photo: AP
African leaders must ensure that foreign projects are sustainable and benefit all their citizens, not only elites, she said. A day earlier, she urged scrutiny of China's large investments and business interests in Africa so that the African people are not taken advantage of.
"We saw that during colonial times, it is easy to come in, take out natural resources, pay off leaders and leave," Clinton said. "And when you leave, you don't leave much behind for the people who are there. We don't want to see a new colonialism in Africa."
Advertisement
Clinton said the United States didn't want foreign governments and investors to fail in Africa, but they also should give back.
"We want them to do well, but also we want them to do good," she said.
"We don't want them to undermine good governance, we don't want them to basically deal with just the top elites, and frankly too often pay for their concessions or their opportunities to invest."
Clinton said that American development aid and public works projects come with good governance conditions and that the Obama administration is interested in Africa and its people. Their success, she said, is in everyone's long-term interest.
Her comments, in a pan-African television interview in the Zambian capital, followed the handover of a U.S. built pediatric hospital in Lusaka to the Zambian government.
Earlier, at the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-Zambia Chamber of Commerce, Clinton laid out the U.S. strategy for helping Africa.
"We want a relationship of partnership not patronage, of sustainability, not quick fixes," she said. "We want to establish a strong foundation to attract new investment, open new businesses ... create more paychecks, and do so within the context of a positive ethic of corporate responsibility."
"We think it's essential that we have an idea going in that doing well is not in any way a contradiction of doing good," she said.
Clinton is the first secretary of state to visit Zambia since Henry Kissinger came in 1976 to lay out the Ford administration's policy for southern Africa as revolts against white minority rule in South Africa and what was then Rhodesia were intensifying.
Clinton, on the first leg of a three-nation tour of Africa, arrived in Zambia from the United Arab Emirates, where she attended an international conference on Libya. After Zambia, she heads to Tanzania and Ethiopia before returning to Washington next week.
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I love you, Sista Hillary, but your regime and racist European allies are doing worse, and even bombing Afrikan Libyans in order to steal their oil and kill the dream of a Pan-Afrikan Union. But you can never kill an idea that will come to fruition in 2017,
Saturday, June 11, 2011 6:29:00 AM EDT
Clinton warns Africa of 'new colonialism'
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Huma Abedin? Photo: AP
African leaders must ensure that foreign projects are sustainable and benefit all their citizens, not only elites, she said. A day earlier, she urged scrutiny of China's large investments and business interests in Africa so that the African people are not taken advantage of.
"We saw that during colonial times, it is easy to come in, take out natural resources, pay off leaders and leave," Clinton said. "And when you leave, you don't leave much behind for the people who are there. We don't want to see a new colonialism in Africa."
Advertisement
Clinton said the United States didn't want foreign governments and investors to fail in Africa, but they also should give back.
"We want them to do well, but also we want them to do good," she said.
"We don't want them to undermine good governance, we don't want them to basically deal with just the top elites, and frankly too often pay for their concessions or their opportunities to invest."
Clinton said that American development aid and public works projects come with good governance conditions and that the Obama administration is interested in Africa and its people. Their success, she said, is in everyone's long-term interest.
Her comments, in a pan-African television interview in the Zambian capital, followed the handover of a U.S. built pediatric hospital in Lusaka to the Zambian government.
Earlier, at the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-Zambia Chamber of Commerce, Clinton laid out the U.S. strategy for helping Africa.
"We want a relationship of partnership not patronage, of sustainability, not quick fixes," she said. "We want to establish a strong foundation to attract new investment, open new businesses ... create more paychecks, and do so within the context of a positive ethic of corporate responsibility."
"We think it's essential that we have an idea going in that doing well is not in any way a contradiction of doing good," she said.
Clinton is the first secretary of state to visit Zambia since Henry Kissinger came in 1976 to lay out the Ford administration's policy for southern Africa as revolts against white minority rule in South Africa and what was then Rhodesia were intensifying.
Clinton, on the first leg of a three-nation tour of Africa, arrived in Zambia from the United Arab Emirates, where she attended an international conference on Libya. After Zambia, she heads to Tanzania and Ethiopia before returning to Washington next week.
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