I just meant we should remember that we are Africans, trends on the continent can and usually will apply to us as well.
Is there any hope for Africa?
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Then we separate ourselves from them and make a bubble.
The answer is no.
The answer is probably yes but in maybe like 300 years
It's the European borders, those fake borders are starting to fall apart and we'll see the bloodiest era in African history.
Africa with either implode and never develop, or rise out of the ashes and join the rest of the developed world.
What good would that do? They're our neighbors, we don't have to mingle with them but we can still trade.
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Do not blame the borders either. The borders in Asia were created by the Europeans, but you will not find an Asian country as bad as the countries of Africa.
The reason is human culture, the culture of Africans is based on tribalism and hatred of tribes, and also laziness because they do not want to change the reality in which they live.
We can trade with it being in our Favour but we have to make ourselves stable enough that we won't need to be subject to the changes in Africa we would have to be self-sufficient enough and have lots of foreign trade networks also another thing that differentiates us is that we are literally right next to the most used trade route in the world so we have a massive advantage and if we stabilized it would be way easier for us to engage in trade with many foreign nations and let's say if economies crashed in the rest of Africa it wouldn't have much effect on us if yk what I mean.
What do you mean? Is it cause our major trading partners are America and Turkey?
No I mean we have the potential to create a horn of africa sphere just like what north africa is doing.
Will their culture and their values change then? Will it become a high trust continent? No dice. It was the west's culture, values, and high trust society that saved your parents from savages hungry for blood.
Look at the politics section; it consists mostly of people either born and raised in the west who think no different than their 90s clan warlords. They only care about their clan, all of similar strength, becoming supreme. A stalemate civil war for 35+ years. They don't look at the bigger picture. A country getting poorer every year. Somalia has no hope. I'm mystified why Africans are not talking about the need to change their culture, values and becoming a high trust people. I don't trust Africans. You would be foolish to do so, especially Somalis.
I would not trust my life with an African. People call me a self hater but it's self survival. When it comes to who will do the right thing, I know who to go to.
You're right, Somalis need to think bigger picture beyond clan and realize that all clans live in the same shithole country anyways.
I think most normal users here agree with you except for the FKD mfs.
South Korea is a special case in my opinion. In a sense they have not gone through colonialism like Africa has, nor do they have any vast natural resources the west can exploit. South Korea is where it is today due to the west. Hundreds of billions of dollars has been invested in the country after the Korean war, because Uncle Sam deemed it so. All because they wanted to counter the soviets and to contain North Korea. It started off as a game of geo politics to say the least, Uncle Sam needed a Ally so the South served a purpose. The South Koreans took advantage of that opportunity and succeeded. No African country has had that advantage.
Most normal users also have their own issues. You can't even trust Africans to arrive on time. Punctuality is extremely important and required for civilized societies. It shows your trustability, that you are not lazy, and your reliability. It shows how you view yourself and how you view others. It's like a contract and Africans always break it. There are so many reasons why Africa will never prosper. How can you prosper when you cannot even do something as basic as follow a basic agreed time? How can anyone trust you on anything else?
That's why I said 300 years, some advanced non european societies were shitholes comparable to Somalia 300 years ago
We could be, if we focus hard on getting rid of corruption in relevant sectors, promote Islamic values and get our foundational sectors done we could be good in a decade.
