Surviving In Africa
The evolution of the world can be traced back 40,000 to what we are calling today the continent of Africa. It is the oldest and the most contradictory continent. It is probably the most environmentally preserved and beautiful place in the world, but it is also a continent dominated by hunger, civil wars, AIDS, and corruption. It is a continent where the majority of the population uses the word “survival” on a regular base. Survival and a way of living became synonyms in countries like South Africa and Sierra Leone without even mentioning Somalia and Ethiopia. Africa is a continent that has strict rules and laws for its citizens. However, these are not rules imposed by governments; the kings and the presidents change at a rate that is too high to make it possible to emit any rules that would enforce at least an apparent order in the society. These are rules made by the cruel reality of the worse three things existing in Africa: the economical situation that has only one meaning-poverty, the rapid growth of AIDS that is accompanied by a disastrous death rate, and the political situation that is best known in that part of the world as corruption. These three factors can answer the multitude of the qu
estions that the international community is struggling to answer for a long time as “why is it that in Africa people are always fighting and dying?” or “why don’t the governments stop it? These characteristics of the African society are also posing some questions that cannot be answered as fast as the previous ones: “when is the present situation going to stop? “who should stop it? and even “is it worth trying to change anything?” These questions are complicated on the outside and scary in essence, but someday somebody should take the initiative and answer them. Hopefully it will be soon, otherwise the situation will become even worse than it is now, but hope is not the most suitable word in this case, and this is why… Not all the African countries, as it was mentioned above are on the verge of an economical disaster. Some of them are actually trying to find a way to get out of the practically impossible situation that was created due to internal, as well as external conditions. One of these examples is South Africa. Geographical magazine has published and interview with former South African president, Nelson Mandela, (2000), where Mandela states that “the solution to the African crises is the involvement of big businesses in the African development of the economy”. Big companies like MacDonald’s and IBM should open their franchises in South Africa. This is probably the most safe and practical method to decrease the unemployment and even solve some social injustices as the results of the apartheid system. Big companies from the outside would not care about the race and the ethnical background of it is an employees, and this is exactly what countries with socio-economical problems crave for. In an influential article, Haroon Ashraf, a publicator of the World Bank Report for the African Countries, (2001), presents the economical situation of Africa as very deceptive. Indeed, Africa is in very
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