Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site vax4.fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (John (posted remotely)) Newsgroups: net.nlang.africa Subject: Re: Drought Situation in Africa Message-ID: <2501@vax4.fluke.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 16:43:15 EDT Article-I.D.: vax4.2501 Posted: Thu Aug 8 16:43:15 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 01:19:01 EDT References: <339@link.UUCP> Reply-To: phoenix@ucbtopaz.UUCP () Distribution: net Organization: phoenix@ucbtopaz.UUCP Lines: 29 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. 0 0 (Crises?.... What Crises?) ^ \_/ John Phoenix@ucbtopaz ucbvax!ucbtopaz!phoenix