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Africa's resources a blessing for only the so called revolutionaries - analyst
09 Jul 2017 at 07:58hrs | Views
A political analyst Vince Musewe has said the curse of Africa's resources has become the blessing for the pseudo revolitionaries liberation struggle predatory elite class in partnership with foreign predators.
He said investigations Correspondent at the Financial Times, Tom Burgis published a book titled "The looting machine".
"It is kaleidoscope of the penury of Africa caused by a coalition between an international predatory mafia and African Presidents and their predatory coalitions made up of the army, intelligence services and state institutions that are raping Africa's resources at the expense of citizens and economic development," Musewe said.
"It is a shocking saga of the deliberate underdevelopment and theft of Africa's resources by the very individuals who claim to have liberated Africa from colonialism. The looting machine is a well organised orchestrated partnership between China and African liberation struggle elite who initiate resource based exploitation projects in Africa fronted by Western consultants and middlemen with contacts in Africa's highest offices and families of the elite robbers."
Musewe said from the DRC, to Angola, to the Niger, to Zimbabwe, nearly every African country has been duped by smooth-talking politically connected corporate criminals who peddle resource deals which significantly undervalue African resources
"Reading this book left me with disgust and anger but we the new generation of Africans must do whatever it takes to reverse this rot," he said.
"African is not poor but poorly managed. (Ellen Johnson Sirleaf quote). Same applies to Zimbabwe."
He said investigations Correspondent at the Financial Times, Tom Burgis published a book titled "The looting machine".
"It is kaleidoscope of the penury of Africa caused by a coalition between an international predatory mafia and African Presidents and their predatory coalitions made up of the army, intelligence services and state institutions that are raping Africa's resources at the expense of citizens and economic development," Musewe said.
"It is a shocking saga of the deliberate underdevelopment and theft of Africa's resources by the very individuals who claim to have liberated Africa from colonialism. The looting machine is a well organised orchestrated partnership between China and African liberation struggle elite who initiate resource based exploitation projects in Africa fronted by Western consultants and middlemen with contacts in Africa's highest offices and families of the elite robbers."
Musewe said from the DRC, to Angola, to the Niger, to Zimbabwe, nearly every African country has been duped by smooth-talking politically connected corporate criminals who peddle resource deals which significantly undervalue African resources
"Reading this book left me with disgust and anger but we the new generation of Africans must do whatever it takes to reverse this rot," he said.
"African is not poor but poorly managed. (Ellen Johnson Sirleaf quote). Same applies to Zimbabwe."
Source - Byo24News
