Africa's Side Mirrors

Sabella Abidde takes issue with the undue emphasis on Africa's history as a reason for its present ills, "...Africa is not a peculiar continent. Everything that has ever happened in Africa has happened elsewhere. Slavery, wars, colonialism, natural or man-made disasters, ethnic conflicts, corruption... you name it and it has happened in other places, too. But while other continents seem to be getting their houses in order, things seem to be adrift in our own continent. Nothing works. There is a pronounced disconnect between the government and the vast majority of the people. Why, for instance, is it taking Ethiopia a quarter century or so to recover from food and water shortage?..."