Parody of a well thought out speech

I certainly do not agree with the parody of a speech you have written as something Obama should have given. Obama's speech in Ghana was well thought out and very apt. After 40 years plus of independence in most African countries we cannot continue to blame the west and western corporations for our failures. This is a lie that MUST end. We must take responsibility for our nations and our future and stop looking for scapegoats outside Africa.

Monstrous leaders like Idi Amin Dada, Mobutu Sese Seko, Sani Abacha of Nigeria, Omar Bongo, and Mugabe are Africans who abused their countries, robbed their nations and destroyed any vestige of dignity, and there are many more all over Africa. This cannot be blamed on the west. America has the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) to dissuade its corporations and persons from partaking in bribery and corruption. This is a good step, but when Africans are involved in corruption, there is no punishment for those involved by the home government, whereas the parties in America are punished. A good example is the Halliburton bribery scandal in Nigeria. Halliburton personnel and the corporation have been punished in America, but not a single Nigerian who got the $180m bribe has been punished.

The administration of the aid sent to Africa is done largely by Africans who connive with others to steal aid money in order to buy properties in these developed countries and send their kids to school there. It is not the west that prevents African leaders from developing their nations. Billions of dollars of national budget are stolen by these leaders. With the current mass larceny going on in most African countries even if $18 trillion was poured into Africa it will not change the situation.

A case in point is Gabon with a small population and massive oil revenues for over 40 years and yet the country is still under-developed. Omar Bongo and family and his cohorts are billionaires with properties all over the world. A similar case is developing in Equatorial Guinea which has over 2 billion barrels of oil reserve and is raking in billions of dollars every year, with a population of half a million people. The country is still largely underdeveloped despite a decade of oil production. Contrast this with what is happening in the middle east, in countries like United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait etc.

We must stop this LIE of deceiving ourselves that everybody else is to blame but Africans. We need to be ashamed as black people for not being able to get our acts right in a world where must races are fast tracking their developing. In Africa we are still rocked by wars and instability due to the greed of the leadership, corruption and graft. We, as black Africans have to rise up to say enough is enough and fix our problems.