Mugabe obit

[Johnnykayeengland]

A little known fact:

He was from Yorkshire. He just reversed his surname to make him sound more African.

A Yorkshire palindrome...

Mugabe ded ebagum.

[Pipkins]

Another one good riddance to

Freed the country & was hailed the all conquering hero

Then sent it backwards & blamed everyone else

Whilst he & his hanger on's lived in luxury

Sad thing is will the new government make it any better?

Have any other African countries prospered since becoming independent?

That's a genuine question btw

[Fido]

Another one good riddance to

Freed the country & was hailed the all conquering hero

Then sent it backwards & blamed everyone else

Whilst he & his hanger on's lived in luxury

Sad thing is will the new government make it any better?

Have any other African countries prospered since becoming independent?

That's a genuine question btw

The issue with gaining independence is then most leaders have been supported by a population who all of a sudden, after generations of poverty and subservience  have access to funds they never thought possible. However, as they've never had experience of dealing with such wealth it then becomes the property of the inept and greedy. It's all well and good dishing out cash left, right and centre to those who have missed out (or just to your family and friends) but without maintaining the source of that wealth then things go badly very quickly. Bear in mind as well that an underlying factor it that most African countries borders were just drawn up as whim by colonial powers with no regard for tribal claims etc. which bring into play a hierarchy that was just flat black under white ownership. This creates antagonism when a more forceful tribe or group of tribes then assumes control and treats the other like shit. It's a bit like how the brutality of the Japanese soldiers was explained during the war - these people lived in a very strictly tiered society where they were bottom of the heap and all of a sudden find themselves at the top whereby everything then goes a little bit Animal Farm.

[Colmanspig_]

Africa also was the victim of been the frontline in the struggle between The west and the soviet bloc . The Angola wars we’re protracted due to this . The dreadful and incompetence of the Marxists in Ethiopia getting war chest funds from Cccp and those live aid bellends . Resulting in prolonging the war in Eritrea.

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Interestingly during the Japanese Russian wars in the 1900s the Japanese treated the 10,000s of captured Russians very well (Russians reported been looked after better in jap hands then by their officers. . Something had altered Japanese military culture to create a climate of extreme brutality by the 1930s.

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I’d never previously taken the time to look but I found further info for japs in the early 20 c treating prisoners humanely. German p.o.ws from Tsing tow . 4000 were well looked after by the japs. This again supports the position that Poe treatment of prisoners was not an inherent Japanese trait . That a kind off military facisism and created the extreme violent culture in the Japanese imperial forces in the 30s onward.

[Gzbaggy]

Another one good riddance to

Freed the country & was hailed the all conquering hero

Then sent it backwards & blamed everyone else

Whilst he & his hanger on's lived in luxury

Sad thing is will the new government make it any better?

Have any other African countries prospered since becoming independent?

That's a genuine question btw

The issue with gaining independence is then most leaders have been supported by a population who all of a sudden, after generations of poverty and subservience  have access to funds they never thought possible. However, as they've never had experience of dealing with such wealth it then becomes the property of the inept and greedy. It's all well and good dishing out cash left, right and centre to those who have missed out (or just to your family and friends) but without maintaining the source of that wealth then things go badly very quickly. Bear in mind as well that an underlying factor it that most African countries borders were just drawn up as whim by colonial powers with no regard for tribal claims etc. which bring into play a hierarchy that was just flat black under white ownership. This creates antagonism when a more forceful tribe or group of tribes then assumes control and treats the other like shit. It's a bit like how the brutality of the Japanese soldiers was explained during the war - these people lived in a very strictly tiered society where they were bottom of the heap and all of a sudden find themselves at the top whereby everything then goes a little bit Animal Farm.

Botswana