AFRICA: RICH CONTINENT, POOR PEOPLE — WHY?

Africa holds about 30% of the world’s mineral resources, vast fertile land, and one of the youngest populations on the planet. Yet many African nations still struggle with poverty, unemployment, and underdevelopment.

So the question must be asked: is Africa poor…or is Africa being made poor?

For decades, raw materials leave the continent cheaply — gold, oil, cocoa, lithium, cobalt — only to return as expensive finished products. Meanwhile, African economies remain dependent on exporting raw resources rather than building industries.

But the real conversation should be this:

• When will Africa process its own resources?

• When will African leaders prioritize long-term development over short-term gains?

• When will Africans support African industries first?

The future of Africa will not be decided in foreign capitals.

It will be decided by Africans.

What do you think is the biggest obstacle to Africa’s development — leadership, foreign influence, corruption, or mindset?

AFRICA, UP TO A FEW MONTHS AGO HAD NO STRONG, SMART, VISIONARY LEADERS,! TO THIS DAY, THE WHOLE OF AFRICA HAS ONLY JUST GOTTEN 4 LEADERS. THE REST, NEEDS TO GO!

Who starts barnstorming across the country doing bs-rallies, targeting gullible-stupidity, 9 months before the midterm elections?

The US is preparing to mobilize young men aged 18-25 for war with Iran: The White House has begun "warming up" public opinion, but may make do with prisoners.
The US is considering mobilizing young men or prisoners for war with Iran. To win in Iran, the US needs a ground operation.

Hmm

The country apparently is under the leadership of a pedigreed 'SOCIOPATH'...

Lorenzo 'Truck' Simpson, professional boxer, 160lb weight class....East Baltimore born. This young man was also a tough basketball player, that my youngest son competed against from ages 7-14. Best wishes to you and your family....

'THE TAMAHOU IS THE EUROPEAN' - SAID CHAMPOLLION



Champollion affirmed this in his letter to his brother and wrote:

"...Right in the valley of Biban-el-Moluk we admired, like all previous visitors, the astonishing freshness of the paintings and the fine sculptures on several tombs. I had a copy made of the peoples represented on the bas-reliefs. At first I had thought from the copies of these bas-reliefs published in England, that these peoples of different races led by the god Horus holding his shepherd's staff, were indeed nations subject to the rule of the Pharaohs. A study of the legends informed me that this tableau has a more general meaning. It portrays the third hour of the day, when the sun is beginning to turn on its burning rays, warming all the inhabited countries of our hemisphere. According to the legend itself, they wished to represent the inhabitants of Egypt and those of foreign lands. Thus we have before our eyes the image of the various races of man known to the Egyptians.

And we learn at the same time the great geographical or ethnographic divisions established during that early epoch. Men led by Horus, the shepherd of the peoples, belong to four distinct families. The first, the one closest to the god, has a dark red colour, a well-proportioned body, kind face, nose slightly aquiline, long braided hair, and is dressed in white. The legends designate this species as Rt-en-ne-Rme, the race of men par excellence i.e. the Egyptians.

There can be no uncertainty about the racial identity of the man who comes next: he belongs to the Black race, designated under the general term, Nahasi. The third presents a very different aspect; his skin colour borders on yellow or tan, he has a strongly aquiline nose, thick, black pointed beard and wears a short garment of varied colours; these are called, Namou.

Finally, the last one is what we call flesh-coloured, a white skin of the most delicate shade, a nose straight or slightly arched, blue eyes, blond or reddish beard, tall stature and very slender clad in a hairy ox-skin, a veritable savage tattooed [see my article on European Goths] on various parts of his body, he is called, Tamahou.

I hasten to seek the tableau corresponding to this one in the other royal tombs and, as a matter of fact, I found it in several. The variations I observed fully convinced me that they had tried to represent here the inhabitants of the four corners of the earth, according to the Egyptian system, namely;

The inhabitants of Egypt which, by itself formed one part of the world

The inhabitants of Africa proper: Blacks

Asians

Finally, I am ashamed to say so, since our race is the last and the most savage in the series. Europeans who, in those remote epochs, frankly did not cut too fine a figure in the world.

In this category we must include all blondes and white-skinned people living not only in Europe, but Asia as well, their starting point. This manner of viewing the tableau is all the more accurate because, on the other tombs, the same generic names appear, always in the same order. We find there, Egyptians and Africans represented in the same way, which could not be otherwise; but the Namou [the Asians] and the Tamahou [Europeans] present significant and curious variants. Instead of the Arab or the Jew, dressed simply and represented on one tomb, Asian's representatives on other tombs [those of Ramases II ect] are three individuals, tanned complexion, aquiline nose, black eyes, and thick beard but clad in rare splendour.

In one, they are evidently Assyrians, their costume, down to the smallest detail, is identical with that of personages engraved on Assyrian cylinders. In the other, are Medes or early inhabitants of some part of Persia. Their physiognomy and dress resemble, feature for feature, those found on monuments called, Persepolitan. Thus, Asia was represented indiscriminately by any one of the peoples who inhabited it.

The same is true of our good old ancestors, the Tamahou. Their attire is sometimes different; their heads are more or less hairy and adorned with various ornaments; their savage dress varies somewhat in form, but their white complexion, their eyes and beard all preserve the character of a race apart. I had this strange ethnographical series copied and coloured. I certainly did not expect, on arriving at Biban-el-Moluk, to find sculptures that could serve as vignettes for the history of the primitive Europeans, if ever one has the courage to attempt it, nevertheless, there is something flattering and consoling in seeing them, since they make us appreciate the progress we have subsequently achieved..."

- Champollion