Colonic Irrigation North West

Recolonization wanted for Africa

By Akinyi Princess of K'Orinda-Yimbo

The global food crisis of 2007/2008 which sparked riots from the Cape to Cairo and from Senegal in Haiti made by governments and their agricultural firms engaged for the saddle and galloping - with their brains. Export tariffs were slapped on the staple food crops to minimize the amount could be sold outside their country. In my book - Darkest Europe and Africa's nightmare: A critical observation of neighboring continents, I said, rather apocalyptic, if Africans we do not care, then the outside world to turn our continent into " plantation wood. "What is happening now, but in a worst case scenario. Africans colonized again and this time not with the force of arms but by Africans themselves willingly selling their continent. The 99 - and 999-year lease - a vestige of colonialism - certainly can not fool everyone. This equates to a century and / or complete the Millennium means three and a half to thirty-four consecutive generations of Africans.

Africans sell only natural resource, they can not afford to sell - their land. Especially arable land. In Antananarivo, Madagascar, earlier in 2009, the government of President Ravalomanana was overthrown by angry urban poor who had already spent two thirds of their income to feed themselves for the massive rise in 2008 world prices for commodities as rice and wheat. It was not only because of his private jet was purchased from a member of the Disney family for his own use of public funds - not. President Ravalomanana has been leasing 1.3 hectares (half the size of Belgium and half of the arable land of Madagascar) for Daewoo in South Korea for 99 years to grow corn and palm oil and send all the crops during this period back home to feed the South Koreans. Daewoo paid nothing: they have promised to improve the structure below the island. And of course they provide "jobs for the people of Madagascar by it agriculture, which is good for Madagascar" (read slavery at low prices). As usual, the public was kept in the dark. Until the news was disclosed by the London Financial Times. This is the first government worldwide to be overthrown by angry mobs and the army to "their lands. Congratulations to the people.

There are over 100 terrestrial analogues captures the world since September 2008, where vast tracts of farmland are purchased by rich countries as well as international companies. Mark Weston, Great Britain international consultant development policy and not the colored cloth: "Imagine if China, after a brief negotiation with the British government needed money abroad after the collapse of the economy has redeemed all of Wales, has replaced most of its inhabitants with Chinese workers, has transformed the entire country in a huge rice field and sent all the rice produced there for the next 99 years China ... imagine that neither the deportee Welch, nor the rest of the UK population know what they get in return for this, having to settle for vague promises that the new owners would upgrade some ports and create jobs for local people.

"So imagine that after a few years - and bearing in mind that the recession and the pound in freefall have already done it is difficult for the United Kingdom to buy food from abroad - a peak oil prices or an environmental disaster in one of the world's largest grain-producing nations drives world food prices sharply upwards and out of reach for many Britons. If the Chinese next door in Wales continue to send rice to China, hungry eyes, helpless on Colombia, ruing the day that the government sold half of their arable land. Some of them draw the violence.