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When I think of Africa these days it's Zimbabwe that comes to mind because it's been in the news so much. I still find it hard to believe that a country could have 80 percent unemployment, shortages of food, 165,000 percent inflation, and the ruling party is still able to bully everyone into allowing things to continue on their disastrous course. The Soviet Union collapsed on far far less than that yet this country is also supposed to be a democracy.



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Million said:
Birthplace of mankind , first thing that comes to mind.

That, and the denial of that fact.



Well to be honest I think of poor black people with AIDS. I think of violence and hunger. I would never, ever, ever go to Africa.



kenzomatic said:
AIDS, Ebola, Diamonds, Conflict Diamonds, AK 47s, Elephents, Lions, Poverty, War.

AK's are russian, not African. Its just cause they're cheap that Africans use them.

 



SlorgNet said:
Africa is:

the jaw-dropping films of Ousmane Sembene and Diop Djibril Mambety.

The world-class novels of Naguib Mahfouz and Nawal al-Sadawi.

The Nobel-prize-winning plays of Wole Soyinka.

Heroic struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism.

Democracy movements in South Africa and Ghana.

Fela Kuti's Afrobeat music.

1 billion people who survived three of the greatest tragedies of human history -- slavery, colonialism, and neocolonialism -- and are now going to make their own history, and prosper.

This needs to be repeated. Thank you SlorgNet.



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i think of a south-eastern continent where no lights are lit up when playing halo.



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I think of African animals, poor black people, wars, and AIDS.




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stof said:
What the hell do I want to go to a place like Mombasa? ... I'm sort of scared about going there ... I just see myself in a pot of boiling water with all these natives dancing around me.



That's what Toronto's Mayor Mel Lastman said during IOC's olympic bidding tours for the 2008 Olympics. Interestingly enough, this was not the stupidest thing he did or said while Mayor.

...What??? 

 



 

 

i think of lions hunting



when i go on xbox live to play halo 3 africa only has one light on



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