That’s the “opinion” of Kevin Myers, a right-wing columnist for the Irish Independent newspaper. He describes Somalia, for example, as “… [a] fine land of violent, Kalashnikov-toting, khat-chewing, girl-circumcising, permanently tumescent layabouts” and Africa as a whole as “… an entire continent of sexually hyperactive indigents, with tens of millions of people who only survive because of help from the outside world.”
See here.
He’s free to his objectionable opinions, but I suppose someone forgot to tell him that the parent company of the Irish Independent makes a fair chunk of its profits in an African country: South Africa. The bosses would probably want a word with Mr Myers. If anything talks, money does.
HT: Naijablog
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I guess reading the “Economy” or “Agriculture” sections of the Wikipedia articles about some African countries would have been a bit too much …work for the proud non-layabout Kevin Myers.
THIS IS THE HYBRID OF THE WESTERN RE-COLONIZATION MOVEMENT OF AFRICA BY THE NAME OF GLOBALIZATION.THE RACIAL HATRED AND THE CONTINUATION OF SAVAGERY SLAVERY SENTIMENTALIS AND MENTALITY.THE RESISTANCE ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL GIVE YOU YOUR TRUE ANSWER WHEN A DAY COMES .THIS IS THE SEED THAT IS SOWED BY THE SHRUED POLITICIANS OF THE WESTERN USING THE MEDIA TO AMPLIFY THEIR VOICE AND SILENCING OTHERS.AFRICANS SHOULD LEARN FROM THEIOR PAST AND PRESENT HISTORY THAT THE WESTERN MEDIA MISREPRESENT AFRICA INTENTIONALLY TO MAXIMIZE THEIR HIDDEN INTEREST AND AGENDA ON THE BITTERSACRIFICE OF THE INNOCENT AFRICANS.COME TO ANTI-GLOBALIZATION AND ANTI-AMERICA.UNDERSTAND THE TRUE INTENTV OF WHAT THEY CALL “‘TERRORISTS”AND SAY NO TO THE WESTERN GREED AND HATCHING PLOT MENTALITY.THEY PLAN TO CLEAR THE PEOPLES OF AFRICA BY MANUFACTURING AIDS ,EVOLA AND OTHER VIRUSES .AMERICA IS THE INTENTIONAL CREATER OF HIV AIDS AND EVOLA.
A very true article. I sent Mr Myers and his editor a note of congratulations on their bravery.
Africa is giving nothing to anyone, apart from AIDS?
Is that wright? Well last time I checked AIDS was biologically developed in labs, by Europeans spread across the Atlantic and running rough-shot over the rest of the world from North America.
Who all together in a mad rush for African resources for free during the 1800′s, illegally kidnapped its inhabitants and transported them across the globe for free labor committing atrocities and genocide on all who resisted.
Working in tandem with the Islamics who in their recruitment exercise indoctrinate sufficient blacks to form an army and who they later use to drive other blacks off of their own land; so that they could occupy it instead, as in the whole of Northern Africa.
Together you milk and is still milking Africa of its endless resources amounting to trillions of Dollars annually; while pretending to give it hand outs.
The more Africa sells to you the poorer it becomes, the more you purchase from Africa the richer you become, how odd a marketing strategy.
I’ll tell you this, younger more informed Africans spread abroad will not continue to sup your unfair trading practices and will find more and more ways to fight back.
THE OBSERVER.