It may seem trivial to talk about a troubled African country in the face of all the troubling – more germane troubling news of the day. But in these tempestuous times it’s important to acknowledge not just how bad things might be for us, but how bad they’re getting all over the world.
Somali and the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) have probably been the two most troubled places in Africa over my entire lifetime. America holds great responsibility in both cases for the bad situations that began at Independence, and now for the situations as they worsen.
Westerners decry plastic islands floating in the oceans and embrace with horror the fact that the weight of disposed plastics on earth will be greater than the weight of all its fish by 2050.
Yes, it’s terrifying Russia’s disruption of elections. But they’ve got a bigger fish in the pond: they’re destroying the world capitalistic order. The global recession is slowly, methodically seeping over the planet like a spilled jar of syrup. By the first of the year every privileged westerner will feel it.
I’m in Ireland on a slow route to Africa. But unlike Donald Trump who arrives the day we leave, we did not refuse the allure of Dublin for the “greatness” of Trump’s Doonberg Golf Club.
When the cat’s away, the mice will play… If you’ve used the popular 
You were fooled by Trump. Don’t be fooled by China and Africa.
Change is on the way but it’s a long way ‘comin.
More and more we can foreshadow global futures by following South African politics. Read my many previous blogs comparing the impeached Jacob Zuma with the yet to be ousted Donald Trump and the established political parties and their fiery challengers.
Americans, please pay attention to the May 8 South African national election. Your future’s being told.
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The saddest thing to watch as the world’s political systems deteriorate is the barbaric resurgence of child labor in Africa.
In the British Parliament a prominent Lord urges the government to recolonize Zimbabwe. Russia’s methodical promotion of oligarchy finds purchase in the Central African Republic, where it’s close to controlling the government. In the U.S. religious groups blossom in the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.