Africa Forsaken

Ever heard of the starvation in Africa, the famine, the druglords, the militia, the apparent five-child-per-family policy? Of course you have. Thats all we hear about; the negative, the problems, the deaths....none of which offer a solution.

The world powers offer a apparently simplistic solution, "send them some money". The rest offer an even more effective solution, "leave them be". The African governments request the ultimate solution, "send us more money". And yet, over and over again, millions of dollars later, the druglords get richer, the militiamen expands its army, the corrupt governments gets even more corrupt, politicians claiming to support the people while gluttoning over anything they can get their hands on. And yet, after all these years, farmers continue to forcefully impregnate their malnutritioned wives in hopes of more farmers. And yet, with these millions of dollars, millions others continue to die of starvation, dying at shootouts, dying of premature or malnutritioned birth.

To think that after such a lengthy period of time, the "civilized" (even undeveloped) nations would come to their senses. Maybe for once, money is NOT the solution to the world's problems. Maybe for once, people need direction, people need guidance, people need education. The good-willed donations goes to the fundings of militias, all unaccounted for. Instead of funding militias, why not build schools? Why not hire educators? Why not help these people help themselves? Why not fund schools instead of weaponary? Oh, yeah, that can't be done since thats how countries have become world powers - through war. Well, now those countries are the world powers that they are, it doesn't stop there; one war leads to another and before you know it, there's another war, yet again, spending...no burning not millions but trillions of dollars on yet another missile with lower visibility and higher casualty with compliments of a larger offensive range. I can't come to grasp a concept which provokes more death in the midst of death. I can't grasp a concept provoking anger in the midst of revenge. I can't come to grasp the priority of weaponary over education.

The media has brainwashed the majority of us. People have not come to believe the lies of the media world; people have merely grew tired of Africa, people have abandoned all hope of survival in Africa. All the movies, the news, the songs, the donations, the organizations, the...(well you get the point), people have seen all this, believing that by supporting these causes blindly, a whole nation would revolutionize. Yet, that very nation is deteriorating, that very nation is holding on its last thread of survival facing the world's back, forsaken and unwanted. The lives of millions hang on this thread of life and death, having war and famine to push them off this thread and education to build a foundation of life.

Despite this obvious choice between war and education, the proclaimed "world powers" choose to fuel this fire(war) with more wood(money). Despite the daily deaths of the innocent, these world powers(who ironically claim to fight only the righteous wars) have forsaken this African nation only to assure fundings for more war. Despite the righteous claims of the majority, people have yet to give up control, money and power for the betterment of millions.

Isn't it as simple as savage and civil? Isn't it as simple as war and education? Isn't it as simple as life and death? Or am I just being a little too optimistic.