http://www.fastcompany.com/member_recent_content/121842 Member recent activity block for member profile page en http://www.fastcompany.com/node/884520 <p>Africa's current condition is the result of neo-colonialism. Africa is being "sharecropped" for its non-renewable resources by the industrialized nations and aspiring industrialized nations (such as China).</p> <p>In the past, Europe and America (also Japan and South Korea) have used the IMF and the World Bank as their agents to extend loans to African countries which for the most part were headed by despot leaders who lined their own pockets and thus, they had little regard for human rights/civil rights and the economic wellbeing of its people.</p> <p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/node/884520">read more</a></p> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:41:47 -0400 Bob Hurd 884520 at http://www.fastcompany.com