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    Kalms,Spector,
    If I could make a mildly relevant comment here. Not all African countries are basket cases which never make any progress in the daily lives of the people. I only have experience in in the "top end"of Africa. Zambia(Northern Rhodesia) is a great place to live, with good education & thriving economy. It welcomes white farmers from Zimbabwe( Southern Rhodesia) & South Africa & has a small population & plenty of land. I had a colleague in the Gulf, who married there & returns every year to work on the farm. His wife runs a small business as well, untroubled by Mugabe style goons. Of course Kenneth Kaunda wrecked the economy in the past with his socialist claptrap
    but the economy is booming now. In the past in the 60s, there was an East African economic union of Kenya,Uganda & Tanzania(Tanganyika) which was very successfull for a while
    until Idi Amin type problems stopped the economic cooperation.
    The only problem I am aware of in Tanzania, a generation ago ,was the massacre of the Sultan of Zanzibar's arab subjects on the island of Zanzibar where the black Africans took over in a very violent struggle.Unlike in Lamu, where Kenya effected a peaceful integration with this wonderful old Arab port.
    I imagine that Tanzania is similar in standards to Zambia. Zimbabwe used to have one of Africa's highest standards of living. Up north, where I have been, Eritrea is a very dynamic business minded & hard working African
    nation. We shouln't condemn all of Africa- there are plenty of bright spots that just don't get any publicity here in the western world.
 
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