Whats africa like? do u like staying there or u dont have an option??

Question

small_freight008 i didnt ask for your racist views comon man i hate it when u hide via the net!!!!!

Answer 1

chicky: One reason Africa countries are in their current state is because colonists went and carved up the continent as if they had a right to do so.  How did you and your family end up there? Hmmmmm.. .......roots in colonization or missionaries...which one? Both were devastating to the well being of the continent. Do you know your world history? Once the United States gained their independence from England, things were not great overnight. There were numerous wars including the Civil War. Most African countries just became independent from colonial rule in the past 50 years...some as recently as about 20 years ago. You're a prime example why white Africans make me nervous. Notice the difference in mindset between you and the lady who went to West Africa to work with the Peace Corps.......

To answer the question: Never been there but I will go someday and teach, or as the lady before did....work with the Peace Corps.

Answer 2

Wow - I really wish I knew where you were from.

I was in the Peace Corps in West Africa. I lived in a small rural village with no running water and no electricity for two years, working in agricultural development. It took me nearly a year just to be able to communicate well in the local language. It was unbelievably hot, the food was monotonous and lacking in nutritional value, I lost so much weight I looked skeletal at one point.

I left 3 years ago and have missed it every day since then.

The people in my village were extraordinary. They were truly generous beyond anything I've ever seen. I literally had people offer me the clothes off their backs simply because I admired them. They were patient and open-minded with me, who was practically an alien from another planet I was so different. I was blown away by how much they cooperated with each other in daily life, and by the complex and sophisticated mechanisms they had developed to deal with conflict.

But most of all, I think I miss laughing every single day. These were people who were one bad rainy season away from starvation, who lost one in five children to disease or malnutrition before they'd reached five years old, and who had a microscopic chance of ever having anything better. But they laughed ALL THE TIME.

Sorry, but looking back over this, there is no way I can express in this amount of space all the good things about my time there.

(NOTE: Cat, down below, the fact that you refer to Africa as a country makes me wonder if you've ever been there. Unfortunately, while I was there, I saw a lot of white people living in the capital behind high walls, and their only contact with local people was through the guards at their gate, the nannies who took care of their kids, the maids who went to market for them. They weren't all bad people - some of them were even in charge of various charities and development agencies - but they certainly seemed pretty clueless about what the local people were actually like. The country I was in has a lot fewer racial problems than South Africa (there are hardly any white people to start with), so I never really experienced the type of resentment and division that I am sure exists there. I had people ask me sometimes about American cotton subsidies, or about the way we treated American Indians, but for the most part people treated me as an individual - I had to show them through my actions who I really was. I know that there are problems with war and violence in many parts of Africa - I'm not wearing blinkers here - but to sit there and say that in all of Africa they kill babies for medicine and murder farmers for fun is slanderous, racist, and extraordinarily stupid.

Answer 3

Africa is very beautiful and amazing. People who are staying there have a passion and very proud to be Africans. Of course migration laws allow people to stay wherever they want, so they can leave. I am in Europe and I do not know where you are, I have really travel around the world but Africa will always be my best planet and by the way, I am moving to South Africa next year for good. I have been there several times, and of course around Africa. People who are in this forum has failed their stay in South Africa, a lot has a negative opinion on the "black" government. And they want to spread their fears and insecurity to the world, just to promote "blacks" failure. And European or US TV always have the bads news about Africa, that is why is creating this impact. You go there, you are likely to "wow". However, for TVs remember good news never sells my friend. Mo was never there but she is right. I was in South Africa 5 years and I still go for holidays. And you know black and white south Africans are living in 2 different planets, so they will differ with opinion. Even though I am european, I do not like their biasness on the other race, black race. Basically Africa is lovely. It has a taste of humankindness and warm at heart. However, I agree that it has its ups and down. I cannot capitalise on the ups and downs, and prove that I am better off.

Answer 4

I cannot judge the whole of the African continent.  I only know South Africa, and that is one of the most beautiful places in the world.  It has the most fantastic natural landscape, wild animals, coastline, and the people are friendly like the sunshine.

Unfortunately, the government with its laid-back attitude towards excessive crime and corruption throughout its ranks is not doing its best to ensure that South Africa will remain the most beautiful and desirable place in the world to live.

Answer 5

I do not have a lot of choice. The Europeans have made it generally impossible for me to travel there, although my wife can still go on  shopping trips  to Rome.

It is a good thing I like African people, as there are a lot of them in Africa.

Answer 6

Africa is beautiful, I have just had the wall around my house raised and put up electric fence and I feel safer now. I am hoping to leave soon.

South Africa had between 31000-32000 murders last year (officials vary in their statistics so these are from newspaper articles) Florida USA had 55 ... it is said SA is more dangerous than Iraq.

Im glad the lady above had such a great time in West Africa. Its not the first time I have heard of people having good experiences there.

Answer 7

We had the choice between a safe place to bring up or kids or a place worse and Iraq. We left Africa. The country in beautiful but the people suck. (not all just the ruling majority)

The locals in Africa kill babies for "multi" which is medicine. Farmers get killed for fun. Nothing is stolen and any foreigner has the chance of being killed and their belongings burnt. Do you call that heaven?

MO: How can you answer this if you have never been to Africa? Don't you think that it is very hypocritical?

Answer 8

alot of black people, bring a gun.

Answer 9

I am an african, athough you wouldnt think it, because i am white. i have been chased out of my country because of this. as if to say just because africa has been streotyped as black, white people dont belong there. could the same then be said for brittan and usa? black people do not belong there?

africa should be the wealthiest continant in the world, but it is not because africans do not allow for this.. rather have money in their own back pockets than help the whole nation. as so crime breeds.. and the other reason i left. being white in africa makes me a target, so now i am an african in another country on another continent.

so i have a very low opinion of africa.