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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (John (posted remotely))
Newsgroups: net.nlang.africa
Subject: Re: Drought Situation in Africa
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Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 16:43:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 16:43:15 1985
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Keywords: ....almost inevitable.

[Posting this remotely for john -- Moriarty]

In article <339@link.UUCP> aaa@link.UUCP (Wale Akinpelu) writes:
>
>..... What is wrong with out culture now? Is greed
>our number one enemy? Africans were known to be
>loving, provide shelter for others, etc. What has
>happened to our thinking in the past twenty years. 
>Do we have bad leadership? What exactly is the problem? 
>

	There will be those types in every nation.  The difference in culture
now is that these people are accepted where once the social pressure was too
great to allow this to happen.   This has a lot to do with the influence of
the market(with good and bad elements - this one being the bad).  It is also
more than likely more of a problem in the larger cities - with the type of 
alienation and seperation that is part and parcel of any large modern city,
it is going to happen.  People just do not have the same close-knit community
influence to rein them in....... You see it time and time again in history as
small, close communities grow economically, and in population.....

	For the sake of African culture(and people), I hope I'm right, and that
it is not indeed a deeper cultural change..... I would mourn the day.


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