Petrarchive – How’s Africa doing?

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No.4723 Anonymous>>4747 2025-05-19 11:20:59
How’s Africa doing?
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So like, what’s going on here? Has it gotten better or worse or? For the record I’m not taking North Africa into account, only the Sahel, Sahara, Central Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, so I mean that region. I’ve heard Rwanda is getting richer and doing some messed up things in the DRC and that the government of Burkina Faso got couped by that guy socialist hail as the new Gaddafi (in a good way) and also there was a coup in Niger and Wagner is running around in Mali, but like that’s it.

Does anyone here have any insight?
No.4735 Anonymous 2025-05-19 13:08:59
Chinese are taking over.
No.4742 Anonymous 2025-05-19 13:36:37
Stagnated, they've all got phones now so I guess that's a """plus"""
No.4747 Anonymous 2025-05-19 15:21:23
>>4723 (OP)
Just read a WSJ article about the Kenyan government teargassing a bunch of highschoolers for putting on a play. Probably not a great sign of the country's long-term stability.
No.4757 Anonymous>>4759 2025-05-20 03:27:51
I want to go on safari in a few years and go hunting there so I hope I things won’t be too bad.
No.4759 Anonymous 2025-05-20 06:09:05
>>4757
if you mean africa in general, it's a pretty big place, there will always be somewhere that is stable and open for tourism. if you mean kenya specifically, well it is one of the more stable countries in africa but you can never say for sure that things will not go downhill.
No.4761 Anonymous 2025-05-20 06:28:37
Anor Crongo, Kenya.
No.4768 Anonymous 2025-05-20 13:19:31
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There's a surprising amount of modern rail. Even more than Latin America, I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_rail_transit_in_Africa#West_Africa
No.4773 Anonymous>>4795 2025-05-20 13:47:29
There's some really sick electronica coming out of Africa in recent years
No.4795 Anonymous>>5371 2025-05-20 21:35:10
>>4773
Share some.
No.5366 Anonymous>>5376 2025-06-04 11:42:56
I have a friend from Ethiopia, makes me want to visit it sometime. Seems like a beautiful and lively place. She always lamented the lack of public sociality in America.
No.5371 Anonymous 2025-06-04 12:06:08
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>>4795
African, but not recent, and coming from the music thread: https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/album/1LSTqJhdSVLvkxWpzwkYPv
No.5376 Anonymous>>5889 2025-06-05 02:18:46
>>5366
I hate how zero sum civic values feel... its like genuine community is almost necessarily at odds with functioning governance and institutions
No.5380 Anonymous 2025-06-05 19:23:35
Fucking awful. The death in Sudan is particularly awful, but not propagandized to get your attention on social media like other conflicts. Also the war on terror has been going on nonstop. A lot of people don't realize France is one of the most capable militaries in the world and it's because they've been keeping sharp by doing America style things in their former colonies with zero English language coverage.
No.5510 Anonymous 2025-06-10 10:21:37
https://aeon.co/essays/should-ethiopian-philosophy-be-universalist-or-africanist
(Since this is the African pot-pourri thread)
No.5576 Anonymous 2025-06-13 11:23:47
Good article on JNIM in the Sahel for anyone curious about that conflict.

https://archive.md/OujBV

The most interesting point for me was the idea that they might do a HTS-style rebrand to try and win international recognition. They have one very big credit to their name in that they are fighting IS.
No.5577 Anonymous>>5579 2025-06-13 11:51:44
Spooks try to describe an event without typing exclusively in acronyms extreme challenge.. you faggots always sound like x86 assembly when you go on about your shit
No.5579 Anonymous>>5611 2025-06-13 12:27:37
>>5577
You have the IQ of a house plant.
No.5611 Anonymous>>5891 2025-06-14 02:00:18
>>5579
Thank God in Heaven, then, that I am a humble houseplant, salt of the earth, vivacious, oxygen-giving, instead of a vile spook like you that does nothing but sap potential out of the human race.
No.5889 Anonymous 2025-06-23 14:12:23
>>5376
if our institutions crumble in the West, hopefully we'll get some better parties out of it.
No.5891 Anonymous>>5893 2025-06-23 14:16:52
>>5611

> hmmm he knows the names of a couple African insurgent groups, clearly he is a spook who is posting on petrarchan dot com for some reason
No.5893 Anonymous 2025-06-23 14:34:28
>>5891
Untreated schizophrenia is responsible for a lot of the crazy shit said online and rears itself in obscure corners of the internet all the more often.
No.6608 Anonymous 2025-07-28 19:30:25
I would love to visit Morocco. I don't have any particular reason.
No.7135 Anonymous 2025-08-16 11:02:15
Have been learning about how in the most rural parts of the DRC and especially the CAR, some people have nothing to eat except the bitter cassava root, and little access to water to make it safe, which results in them becoming crippled due to chronic cyanide poisoning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konzo

Feels like the sort of thing that shouldn't happen in the 21st century. It was thought to be a very rare disease but apparently it happens with some regularity, but in places so remote and difficult to access that it largely passed by the notice of authorities and NGOs.