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independent.ie - 7/11/2008

Africa is giving nothing to anyone -- apart from AIDS - Kevin Myers, Columnists

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'Africa's peoples are outstripping their resources, and causing catastrophic ecological degradation,' writes Kevin Myers. A sick child waits in line to be screened at Giara Clinic, Southern Ethiopia

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INSTAPUTZ — Some asshole named Kevin Myers wrote a column with this hedder: Human septic tank, John Derbyshire, says Kevin Myers is one of the world's half-dozen best opinion journalists. I disagree with him about many things (Ian Paisley, for example) but still admire him tremendously.... Now Myers up and says what many think quietly to themselves in the privacy of their chambers, but few dare speak of out loud. He'll take a lot of punishment for this; but he is of ...

"Africa is giving nothing to anyone apart from AIDS"
All — Amazing piece by a guy who, unlike you, has actually been to Africa. Every word rings true. If that means I'm not a Christian anymore, than I guess I'm not then... No. It will not do. Even as we see African states refusing to take action to restore something resembling civilisation in Zimbabwe, the begging bowl for Ethiopia is being passed around to us, yet again. It is nearly 25 years since Ethiopia's (and Bob Geldof's) famous Feed The World campaign, and in that time Ethiopia's population has grown from 33.5 ...