I think the best that the west should do about Africa is get out of it completely....aside from humanitarianism purely on a voluntary basis.

Leave it to the Chinese and Russians.....it's nothing but a giant money hole.

Invest in Asia.

The current Lod Harewood, David, the 8th Earl Of Harewood:

Harewood House was commissioned by his ancestor Edwin Lascelles in the mid-18th century.

The expensive project was funded by money Edwin's father Henry made in the West Indian sugar trade.

He owned 26 plantations and 3,000 slaves, who were forcibly shipped to the Caribbean to produce sugar, rum, cotton and tobacco for the European market.

Archived documents show the family had plantations in Barbados, Jamaica, Tobago and Grenada.

And they ranked among the top one percent of aristocratic slave-owning families of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, according to researchers at the University of York.
("experts" are academics who are funded by the taxpayer and have to justify their existence", so we're told)

Lascelles himself said he doesn't feel shame in a personal way but feels "accountable" in some way.

Confronting his past in a new Channel 5 series, he said: "I don’t feel that feeling guilty for something you have no involvement with is a helpful emotion.

"What I am responsible for is what I try to do about that legacy. To try in a small way to make that a force for good today."

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Africa is like a giant Notting Hill Carnival.

Ex Tory MP asks to be forgotten. Don't worry dear like the rest of the former MPs you soon will be.

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She has a point though why is she being singled out funny how the university is now all in favour of defending free speech.

It is a bit more nuanced than that.

Firstly, slavery in Africa was a phenomenon way before we got there; but we made it considerably worse by adding a huge market for them. Mea culpa on that one.

Secondly, there were always tribal wars in Africa. Like slavery, one in the grain of their culture. However, the motive for war altered from being the usual land grab to also people grab in order to feed that insatiable market.

Thirdly, (I know you are talking about something else) the reason there were no Mr Smith of Mr Brown on the ground is because life expectancy was less than a year, largely from malaria. Europeans learned to have others do our dirty work for us.

That said, we didn't force them to go to war, sell their own people for cash etc. African leaders exhibiting pure greed and corruption - never! And while we have white guilt about this, you can bet the Arab world cares not a jot about their much longer history in this crime.