THEAfrica is celebrating fifty years of wandering that began with the assassination of Patrice Lumumba and provisionally ended with the lynching of El Gueddafi. Colossus with feet of clay, Africa is the country of paradoxes, it is a demographically exuberant continent with 1 billion people, nearly 600 million of whom do not have access to electricity. Let us remember that a Somali consumes in energy in a year what an American consumes in a week. Yet Africa is full of wealth, but as Sarkozy writes, "its tragedy is that it has not yet made history." Neither Hegel nor Victor Hugo gave credit to Africa's past. On the contrary, they gave a base to the ideology of the superior races and to the duty of civilization dear to Jules Ferry. Better, at the Berlin conference in 1885, the cure of Africa authorized the King of the Belgians to have a territory for him, the current Congo, on both sides of the river, which is torn apart; the belligerents aided by external powers fascinated by wealth. We will, in what follows, list the eight purulent wounds.
Famine and AIDS
It is not possible to list all the ills of Africa, if not to mention first, the two most important. Famine and AIDS. For famine, which is still endemic, tens of thousands die of hunger every year and suffer from malnutrition. Let us remember that a full 4 × 4 of biofuel made from diverted corn can feed a Sahelian for a year, Regarding AIDS, for nearly twenty years writes Claire Brisset, AIDS was considered a fatal disease , with no possible escape. (…) But this global panorama masks striking inequalities; Geographical inequalities, since they concern more particularly certain countries of the black continent, and generational, since they affect the children of these same countries more heavily, despite the progress observed elsewhere. It is in French-speaking Africa that the fight against AIDS is lagging behind. (…) According to Mr Sidibé, this delay is due in particular to the history of the epidemic which has spread thanks to the displacement of mine workers from southern Africa. (..) Violence also promotes the spread of the virus: civil unrest, wars, violence against women ... We must now consider the fight against AIDS as a component of the fight for human rights, and no longer only as a public health issue. ” (1)