Jan 6
Africa…put bluntly
We should not aid these brutal chiefsWhy is it that every time there is an outbreak of savagery in the benighted continent of Africa (International News, December 30) our blinkered politicians feel it is incumbent on Britain to become involved in the internal affairs of the country concerned?
We no longer bear responsibility for our actions in our former colonies any more than Rome or the Normans do for their occupation of Britain, but for some obscene reason the Islington and Notting Hill liberals, riddled with guilt for our role in the slave trade, still believe that we should pour billions of pounds of reparations into them in order to absolve ourselves, blithely ignoring the fact that the paramount chiefs were selling millions of their brethren to Arab slave traders long before the Romans arrived in Britain and continue to do so to this very day.
The white man’s burden was laid down many years ago and Africans have now reverted to their tribal past. The bloodletting in Rwanda, Darfur, Uganda, the Congo and now Kenya is but a foretaste of what is to come in the Republic of South Africa and elsewhere. Pouring money into the coffers of corrupt chieftains will only hasten that sorry day.
Geoffrey Morgan, Long Bennington, Lincs
There was no genocide or famine during Empire days. Africa got rid of the European colonists. Now its time for them to take care of themselves. No matter how much the BBC and Sky go on about the state of Kenya I still won’t give a toss. Its a great shame what is going on but the West bear no blame for it nor do they have a role in solving it.
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