tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post8706445909988321134..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: Notes on AfricaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-64798787227147178382013-08-13T21:13:41.674+10:002013-08-13T21:13:41.674+10:00Carter Van Carter of Across Difficult Country has ...Carter Van Carter of Across Difficult Country has written on African Space Programs before: http://acrossdifficultcountry.blogspot.com.au/search/label/afronauts<br /><br /><br />Also Peter Hitchen's has written on Chinese colonization of Africa before at http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/africas-last-worst-hope/Mercurius Aulicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130901970855873480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-81038147396757129492013-08-13T21:03:14.256+10:002013-08-13T21:03:14.256+10:00Soon they are going to have to change the words in...Soon they are going to have to change the words in Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon"<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBy_ppG4hYMercurius Aulicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130901970855873480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-50721160395009747812013-08-13T00:30:46.748+10:002013-08-13T00:30:46.748+10:00Elizabeth (or Alcestis), I thought you still lived...<i>Elizabeth (or Alcestis), I thought you still lived in Angola. Where are you now?</i><br /><br />Hello.<br /><br />I once commented here as Elizabeth Smith, but I changed it to Alcestis Eshtemoa (which is a common and familiar name I have for myself at other blogs and websites).<br /><br />Getting Brazilian nationality (renouncing the Angolan one) and travelling in both Portugal and Brazil (not to mention, going to <br />Russia in the near future too).<br /><br />I'm 20 years old right now btw.Alcestis Eshtemoanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-82170233675085100222013-08-13T00:30:20.159+10:002013-08-13T00:30:20.159+10:00"African countries have space programs?"..."African countries have space programs?"<br /><br />Yes but thus far they have been unable to form a human pyramid high enough to reach orbit. =)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-21452265324110368002013-08-12T22:17:52.117+10:002013-08-12T22:17:52.117+10:00Really, African countries have space programs? I ...Really, African countries have space programs? I looked online and all I can see that have done is stick a "satellite" under a weather balloon and send it up 500 feet.CamelCaseRobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-50635042710178725582013-08-12T21:41:13.339+10:002013-08-12T21:41:13.339+10:00Elizabeth (or Alcestis), I thought you still lived...Elizabeth (or Alcestis), I thought you still lived in Angola. Where are you now?CamelCaseRobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-46476701804805091582013-08-12T21:39:46.550+10:002013-08-12T21:39:46.550+10:00The SPDL blogger is African-American? Hard to bel...The SPDL blogger is African-American? Hard to believe.CamelCaseRobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-76737580031449399272013-08-12T00:45:30.820+10:002013-08-12T00:45:30.820+10:00Paul Kersey is the name of Charles Bronson's c...Paul Kersey is the name of Charles Bronson's character in Death Wish.IAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-70619419280367338252013-08-11T23:32:47.849+10:002013-08-11T23:32:47.849+10:00Fascinating. An article on OZConservartive about w...Fascinating. An article on OZConservartive about where my father comes from. Angola is in Central Africa.<br /><br /><i>The daughter of the Angolan president has become Africa's first female billionaire.</i><br /><br />Yep. She's also biracial and not really African (google "Isabel dos Santos" and see her picture). Her mother (the President's first wife, apparently they are now divorced) was from a former Soviet Union state in Azerbaijan (near Armenia and Turkey). Her elite President father is quite African thought.<br /><br />José Eduardo dos Santos married three times and has six children from his wives, and one born out of wedlock. He and his family have amassed a significant personal fortune.<br /><br />I found it interesting how Isabel dos Santos, married Sindika Dokolo a son of a DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) millionaire from Kinshasa and his Danish wife. He's biracial, medium to fair skinned (depending on the heat of the sun) and he owns the most important collection of contemporary African art which includes more than 3.000 pieces. The problem is that she married quite late. She met him during college in London, UK.<br /><br />That would puzzle most African-Americans, who often as a group seem to be under some impression that biracial (half-black/half other) women should be having children with and marrying black dudes (who are mostly dark-skinned and poor, don't lie).<br /><br /><i>But there is now a very wealthy black elite in these nations: they are the ones who hold the power and the wealth. And if there is a colonial power it is now very clearly the Chinese rather than any Western country.</i><br /><br />There is great inequality in Angola. All of this thing about Angola being a rich country is founded on three things: the old influence of the Portuguese, the natural oil reserves and the hand of the Chinese in building and doing stuff.<br /><br />Most (average) Angolans aren't like that. And I don't know how this type of elite will be in the future because one all knows about "regression to the mean". A couple may be an exception for example, but their children may reverse towards the mean and be quite average. That's what I sometimes see with the black elite. That's why I don't see a bright future for Angola and left it while I still could.<br /><br /><i>There has always been a wealthy elite in Africa. Usually their wealth is a product of corruption and rent-seeking on Western enterprise rather than a product of their own work. This has not changed for all that the local parasites are fastening on a Chinese host rather than a European or American one.<br /><br />I doubt their is much in the way of a middle class in these "wealthy" African countries.</i> <br /><br />That's what SBPDL (Stuff Black People Don't Like) author and blogger Paul Kersey, who is African-American, says about the black community in the USA.<br /><br />He says that the black US middle-class is artificial (through NGOs, corporate help, government help, etc.), and will collapse in the future as the economy declines. He also talked a lot about DWL (Disingenuous White Liberals) and their hand in this grand scheme.<br /><br />I thought he was exaggerating at first all those years ago, but it seems that time has proven him right.Alcestis Eshtemoanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-91391951270422355692013-08-11T22:09:07.646+10:002013-08-11T22:09:07.646+10:00Remember the Beverly hillbillies? Anyone can beco...Remember the Beverly hillbillies? Anyone can become new rich from oil.<br />Just look at the Arabs.<br />The question is with our resource boom why is Australia not benefiting from it the way these thirdworld people are.<br />Labor deliberately squandered it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-37360358680993588682013-08-11T21:02:17.762+10:002013-08-11T21:02:17.762+10:00There has always been a wealthy elite in Africa. U...There has always been a wealthy elite in Africa. Usually their wealth is a product of corruption and rent-seeking on Western enterprise rather than a product of their own work. This has not changed for all that the local parasites are fastening on a Chinese host rather than a European or American one.<br /><br />I doubt their is much in the way of a middle class in these "wealthy" African countries.Jnoreply@blogger.com