By Jan Lamprecht

Forwarded by Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

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Colonialism was the best thing that ever happened to Africa. Colonialism brought peace to the 300 warring tribes of Africa. Colonialism for Africa meant more development than it had ever known - before or after colonialism.

Colonialists brought far more into Africa than took out of it. It is for that reason that most world empires easily let go of the continent, with only white settlers opposing black rule. From London, Lisbon and Brussels, Africa is totally useless. Local white settlers understood the destruction the end of colonialism would bring into their lives, but for Europeans, colonialism was a waste of money and resources.

The standard of living in Africa under colonialism has not been matched even despite billions of dollars of annual aid to the continent from white countries.

Why is South Africa the powerhouse of Africa? Answer: More whites lived in South Africa than any place else, and white rule ended only 13 years ago.

As whites (and Asians) were kicked out, the continent's collapse accelerated. When Robert Mugabe took away farms and other property from Zimbabwean whites, he pulled the rug from under his country's economy. This year, inflation is expected to reach 4,000%.

Other excellent examples are: Mozambique and Angola.

Africais the richest continent on Earth when it comes to natural resources. Parts of Africa have staggering fertility. A friend of mine went to Rwanda. He told me the ground there is so fertile, the climate so wet and warm you can literally plant a stick anywhere and it will grow.

The question that must, therefore, be asked is: why are blacks starving in the land of milk and honey?

Why is Japan the 2nd richest nation on Earth and yet it has no natural resources, and is far from its suppliers and markets? Answer: The Japanese people.

Intelligent people achieve great things. That is why East Asia is doing so well (except for hardcore communist states such as North Korea). Clever people, even in unfavorable conditions, are capable of doing well.

Africa made two mistakes: (1) Expelling whites; and (2) adopting Socialist type models.

(1) White people are ingenious and hard-working. Their main contribution is ability to organize and that is what brought prosperity to Africa. Whites contribute out of all proportion to their small numbers.

(2) Blacks have been adopted by communists, Marxist, socialists, leftists and liberals - and most of these people believe in some form of government handouts and drive blacks towards socialism. Unfortunately communism doesn't work anywhere in the world - so why should it work in Africa?

The most successful experiment in black capitalism I've ever seen occured in the mid-1980's in South Africa under apartheid. President PW Botha changed laws and allowed a black taxi industry to exist. In my view it is the single most successful experiment in black capitalism that ever occurred on the face of this planet. That model, if expanded, upon could be the future of Africa and could provide hope for black people everywhere.

The problem is that blacks prefer the dreams of a socialist government giving them everything rather than working to improve their fate.

And whites are not the first to come here anyway. All across southern Africa is evidence of (Southeast) Indians sailing here and mining gold, hundreds of years before whites came. Indians came, mined gold and took it away. The Great Zimbabwe ruins is nothing more than an Indian temple built in Africa (as propounded in a recent theory by an academic in South Africa and shown to be consist with similar temples in India). Evidence of an Indian presence here is myriad.

Colonialism worked. Foreign aid has not.

Handouts to Africa achieved little or nothing and will continue to achieve little or nothng. Colonialism did what foreign aid cannot - run Africa efficiently.

Instead of pumping money into Africa, Europe pumped skilled people into Africa,who came and repeated in Africa what was done in Europe. By having them build and organise, as well as bring science and engineering, colonialists built Africa.

Anti-colonialism is leftist bunk that has now become agreed upon as the "politically correct" version of history.

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