| | The year 2005 will go down as one in which so much was promised to Africa, so little was achieved but the subterfuge helped clear any lingering scales on our eyes that foreign-do-gooders will help fix Africa. We were told several times by all kinds of do-gooders that 2005 was Africa's year. These expectations were based on a dubious coincidence outside of Africa. During 2005 the British Prime Minister, Tory Blair, assumed both the Presidency of the European Union and Chairmanship of the G8 Rich Vultures' Club and promised to make Africa his priority. Prophet Blair, who did not officially visit Africa (except for an obligatory photo call on Mandela on his way to the holiday paradise Island of Mauritius and another holiday in Egypt) throughout his first term as Prime Minister decided that, to cleanse himself of the blood of innocent Iraqis that he helped his buddy, Bush, to exterminate, Africa was his salvation. |
