Big government is really not all it's cracked up to be. Sure Africa needs to rise up out of the quagmire it's been pushed down into, but simply aspiring to imitate those who pushed her there is not the solution.

Until the age of European colonialism, Africa was the breadbasket of the world, along with India. And since European colonialism, they've both become the basket cases of the world, and it's no accident. The European powers sucked these places dry, taking all their precious resources and putting into power neo-colonialist stooges who continue to rape the land for their colonial masters.

Till this day, France still forces impoverished African nations to pay them a "compensation" for forfeiting their colonial rights.