Defending western style governance, Clinton Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during an interview on Zambia’s Africa 360 program:
Authoritarian regimes try to put everybody into the same mold: you’ve got to do this, that, and only it, because that’s what you’re told to do. I want to see an African renaissance that provides opportunities of all kinds for people, because I am confident you can compete with anybody anywhere.
Well, the US is hardly a model for Africa. The Africans have experience with Western-style colonial rule and reject it.
The two models for emerging third world nations are China and India.
China seems to be the bigger success story. Indeed, China has a communist system in government, but it is very decentralized and has permitted free market reforms.
One of the TED experts on China, called the country a civilization-state rather than a nation-state. China is a 5,000 year old culture, now isn't it?
Is the US First World model relevant for Africa? Hardly.
Corruption is a big problem in Africa and such a system thrives under government controlled corporatism.
Egypt is a good example of what can happen when the government is hopelessly corrupt and controls all of the means of production..
source: http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0611/dont_look_east_34fe2d77-7e7b-4a93-a87e-a34d13cbb87a.html
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