Sovereign African governments are complicit in the new scramble for Africa (“How food and water drive a new foreign land grab in Africa“, News). The result will be recently disenfranchised farmers working for wages. Oil supplies are being depleted and soon the major land grab in Africa will be to grow sugar cane and palm oil to keep the gas guzzlers running. The African governments may call it development but the fact is they are selling off their resources to line their own pockets – just as the chiefs once sold off their human resource.
Vali Jamal
Nairobi, Kenya
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/mar/14/africa-land-grab
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