Comments by "S S" (@SS-yj2le) on "Black Culture Unlocked" channel.

  1. I think the way we measure how good or bad a country, let alone a whole continent, is very flawed. Especially with Africa as American and European media always look at Africa like it is one place when it is the second largest continent behind only Asia and has numerous completely different countries. You have a dictatorship like Eritrea and then going out west, you have a democracy in Ghana and Botswana has a lower corruption index than even Italy and barely below South Korea. You have mining giants like Botswana and oil giants like Nigeria. You have dangerous places like South Sudan and safe countries like Ghana and Algeria who have lower murder rates than the US. You have places lacking in education like South Sudan and education hubs like South Africa. The main issue with Africa I see is similar to what is going on with Latin America. That is corruption, inequality, and lack of infrastructure. All in varying degrees among Latin American countries just as what is seen in Africa. Ones with less of these issues in both regions fair much better with some even competing on some measures with the US and Europe. Most African countries are developing and very fast. They do have a chance to reach that point where most people are not dealing with these same issues. In South Africa for instance, a lot of people in Cape Town do well and pretty much live the same standards seen in the US and the UK. While if they leave out to say the outskirts of Durban, it is a whole different story. The US and UK have those issues too, but not to that extreme. Not counting lack of infrastructure available there and in other countries, not even being able to feed them. Having the largest inequality gap in the entire world. Hence, leaving the country as a whole as very much behind where it should be. Same applies for most other African countries. Part of the key to Africa’s success is tackling the same issue hitting us here in the US in regards to high inequality. If they get past that and get all the necessary means to utilize all the rich resources those countries have, some of the countries are going to be potent world powers on the world stage with the likes of China, India, Russia, Pakistan, the US, the UK, and the EU.
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