African Skylines..The Other Africa

Spider879

Kilwa
Millennium Dam, Ethiopia

And here comes the Arab propaganda

But Ethiopia is determined to complete dam

edit on 23-12-2013 by Kilwa because: (no reason given)

This is quite an ancient fear that up river folks would or could blocked the Nile causing down river folks to starve,this could be cause for unrest in the region such development should be monitored closely.

It's all political, the message is "You never cared about us, now we don't care about you"
Ethiopia here represent Africa.

For example Sudan asked to enter in the East African Community, they rejected and said “We rejected their application after looking at several issues like their democracy, the way they treat women and their religious politics and we feel they don’t qualify at all”. Not even Rwanda is a perfect democracy (it's a Singapore style dictatorship), so the poblem is not that.

It's all political, African countries of the Arab League have even difficulties to admit they're Africans, so for now they're cut out from everything concerning the development projects and institutions of Africa.

Kilwa

Spider879

Kilwa
Millennium Dam, Ethiopia

And here comes the Arab propaganda

But Ethiopia is determined to complete dam

edit on 23-12-2013 by Kilwa because: (no reason given)

This is quite an ancient fear that up river folks would or could blocked the Nile causing down river folks to starve,this could be cause for unrest in the region such development should be monitored closely.

It's all political, the message is "You never cared about us, now we don't care about you"
Ethiopia here represent Africa.

For example Sudan asked to enter in the East African Community, they rejected and said “We rejected their application after looking at several issues like their democracy, the way they treat women and their religious politics and we feel they don’t qualify at all”. Not even Rwanda is a perfect democracy (it's a Singapore style dictatorship), so the poblem is not that.

It's all political, African countries of the Arab League have even difficulties to admit they're Africans, so for now they're cut out from everything concerning the development projects and institutions of Africa.

edit on 24-12-2013 by Kilwa because: (no reason given)

Understood but building bridges have to start somewhere,while Kadaffi had his issues he really did try to bridge the two.

Spider879

Kilwa

Spider879

Kilwa
Millennium Dam, Ethiopia

And here comes the Arab propaganda

But Ethiopia is determined to complete dam

edit on 23-12-2013 by Kilwa because: (no reason given)

This is quite an ancient fear that up river folks would or could blocked the Nile causing down river folks to starve,this could be cause for unrest in the region such development should be monitored closely.

It's all political, the message is "You never cared about us, now we don't care about you"
Ethiopia here represent Africa.

For example Sudan asked to enter in the East African Community, they rejected and said “We rejected their application after looking at several issues like their democracy, the way they treat women and their religious politics and we feel they don’t qualify at all”. Not even Rwanda is a perfect democracy (it's a Singapore style dictatorship), so the poblem is not that.

It's all political, African countries of the Arab League have even difficulties to admit they're Africans, so for now they're cut out from everything concerning the development projects and institutions of Africa.

edit on 24-12-2013 by Kilwa because: (no reason given)

Understood but building bridges have to start somewhere,while Kadaffi had his issues he really did try to bridge the two.

Moroccan construction companies now have some contracts in Senegal, Ivory Coast and other countries with a great muslim population. But this is not enough, a Guinean will never be called "slave" or "monkey" in the middle of the street while traveling in Kenya. This can happen in Morocco, Algeria and other North African countries.

The bridge must to be cultural, they must to reform their education system and start broadcasting some documentaries about other African people's history, there are many produced in Mali, Burkina Faso etc that can be easily dubbed in Arab from French (they're made in French so they can be easily be broadcasted in other African francophone countries).

Eko Atlantic Project, Lagos, Nigeria









First building, Eko Pearl, under construction

AFRICA INVESTMENT: Trading places: Nigeria-South Africa GDP duel is not a zero sum game
news.yahoo.com...

By Tosin Sulaiman

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa could soon lose its status as Africa's biggest economy to Nigeria, but in the race to be the continental powerhouse being biggest may not be everything.

Nigeria, Africa's No. 1 oil producer, will complete a rebasing of its gross domestic product (GDP) by next month, its statistics office says, which economists estimate could expand the size of its economy by between 20 and 60 percent.

This exercise, which has missed a string of previous deadlines, looks set to transform Nigeria into the continent's most important economy measured in terms of GDP size.

With a current economic output of around $290 billion, the West African country - whose population is more than three times the size of South Africa's 51 million - already boasts faster growth.

While it has expanded by an average of 7 percent annually over the past decade, South Africa has averaged 3 percent growth, held back by rigid employment laws and recurring labour unrest.

But even if it slips from the top spot, South Africa can still claim the crown of being the more diversified and sophisticated economy. Its financial markets are among the world's most advanced and while its $350 billion economy is smaller than Mexico and Indonesia, its stock market is larger.

For Nigeria, the aim of the rebasing exercise is to change the base year for calculating output to 2008 from 1990 to reflect sectors of the economy that have since grown in importance, such as telecoms and IT.

However, it is still heavily reliant on oil exports, accounting for some 80 percent of government revenue, and an enlarged GDP will do little to immediately improve life for nearly 100 million of its citizens who live on less than $1 a day.

While agriculture and power sector reforms would improve Nigeria's fortunes, turbulent politics and a resilient and bloody Boko Haram insurgency in its north take some of the shine off its positive growth story.

Whenever it happens, Nigeria overtaking South Africa as Africa's economic top dog is "kind of everything and nothing," said David Cowan, Citigroup's Africa economist.

"It is everything because you are then the largest economy in Africa so there's a lot of kudos attached to that. But the reality remains that, on the ground, for every Nigerian there's no difference ... South Africa can still call itself the most sophisticated economy in Africa."

South Africa's expected retreat in the GDP ranking will nevertheless be a big psychological adjustment for a country that has often taken its lead position for granted.

This 2;48 sec vid was meant as a accompaniment to the above post sorry I was a bit tardy..

Luanda Angola pre 2008

Launda Angola today

That's how fast things are moving in certain parts of Africa