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conix, that's a weak, lazy effort in defense of Trump's "shithouse", and other
Trump policies, by Karen McQuillan. She doesn't look worthy of great trust.

"What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa:"

On corruption McQuillan says,

"In Senegal, corruption ruled, from top to bottom."

Yet, at 64 of 176 countries on Transparency International's
Corruption Perceptions Index, Senegal ranks better than most
.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#Rankings .

On water McQuillan says,

"In plain English: shit is everywhere. People defecate on the open ground and
the feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water."

That may be the case is some places as in most all countries of our world, e.g. San Francisco ..
https://thebolditalic.com/why-is-there-so-much-human-shit-on-the-streets-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-ccaecdc7512 ..
yet likely not nearly as bad, or as widespread, as McQuillan suggests.

Consider - Water supply and sanitation in Senegal
Water supply and sanitation in Senegal is characterized by a relatively high level of access compared to the average of Sub-Saharan Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Senegal

Also

We want to turn poo into gold': how SMS is transforming Senegal's sanitation
In Dakar, an Uber-like SMS service has reduced the cost of emptying pit latrines by nearly half – and now customers can sell their waste to be turned into energy
Misha Hussain in Dakar
Wed 12 Aug 2015 19.49 AEST
Last modified on Fri 6 Oct 2017 23.14 AEDT
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/aug/12/poo-uber-sms-senegal-sanitation

On small business McQuillan says,

"All the little stores in Senegal were owned by Mauritanians.."

A number of searches failed to verify anything on that, though i did grab

Chinese Merchants Thrive in Senegal, Where People ‘Needed Stuff’
By ANDREW JACOBSMAY 23, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/world/africa/chinese-merchants-thrive-in-senegal-where-people-needed-stuff.html

Then she says,

"African problems are made worse by our aid efforts. Senegal is full of smart, capable people. They might eventually
solve their own country's problems. They will do it on their terms, not ours. The solution is not to bring Africans here."

Her first sentence there is a lazy effort to justify cutting much of foreign aid. Though the topic is one of debate - note -

Does foreign aid always help the poor?
Ana Swanson 23 Oct 2015
[...]
“My critique of aid has been more to do with countries where they get an enormous amount of aid relative to everything else that goes on in that country,” Deaton said in an interview with Wonkblog. “For instance, most governments depend on their people for taxes in order to run themselves and provide services to their people. Governments that get all their money from aid don’t have that at all, and I think of that as very corrosive.”
[...]
Deaton doesn’t argue against all types of foreign aid. In particular, he believes that certain types of health aid – offering vaccinations, or developing cheap and effective drugs to treat malaria, for example — have been hugely beneficial to developing countries.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/10/does-foreign-aid-always-help-the-poor/

McQuillan's last sentence there is a lazy anti-immigration opinion. Who the hell has ever
suggested the solution to Africa's problems is to bring Africans to the West? No one.

Why would you trust much of anything McQuillan presents as fact.

Then i saw F6's reply ..
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=137868586 .. and understood.

Finally, a tidbit toward a larger perspective.

14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax For the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization
By: Mawuna KOUTONIN
Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 at 3:41 pm.
[...]
As these numbers demonstrate, France is quite desperate but active to keep a strong hold on his colonies what ever the cost, no matter what.

In March 2008, former French President Jacques Chirac said:

“Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third [world] power”

Chirac’s predecessor François Mitterand already prophesied in 1957 that:

“Without Africa, France will have no history in the 21st century”
http://siliconafrica.com/france-colonial-tax/

So you see some of Trump's whites are still ripping Africa off.