The Reality of Africa

Kevin Myers of the Irish Independent News of Ireland wrote an opinion piece that thwarts status quo conventional thinking about Africa and offers a logical dose of reality:
We now have almost an entire continent of sexually hyperactive indigents, with tens of millions of people who only survive because of help from the outside world. This dependency has not stimulated political prudence or commonsense.
Much of the world in -- one way or another -- have been giving aid to or investing in Africa, whereas Africa, with its vast savannas and its lush pastures, is giving almost nothing to anyone, apart from AIDS.
So, how much sense does it make for us actively to increase the adult population of what is already a vastly over-populated, environmentally devastated and economically dependent country?
How much morality is there in saving an Ethiopian child from starvation today, for it to survive to a life of brutal circumcision, poverty, hunger, violence and sexual abuse, resulting in another half-dozen such wide-eyed children, with comparably jolly little lives ahead of them?
Of course, it might make you feel better, which is a prime reason for so much charity. But that is not good enough.
For self-serving generosity has been one of the curses of Africa. It has sustained political systems which would otherwise have collapsed.
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