THE CAPITALIST NIGER
chase after a mouse when your house is on fire.” But it seems that Africans in America have perfected
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the science of chasing after a mouse when their house is on fire. With the meetings, all the boasting,
Africans in America cannot claim to have made an impact in America in matters concerning Africa, or in
Africa with all the wars, diseases, famine and all kinds of problems going on there. More than 800,000
Tutsis and Hutus were killed in Rwanda; Africans in America did not lift a finger of help even in just
expressing their sympathies, gathering blankets, foods, medical supplies and drugs or even toys for the
children. It is the same story all over the continent. Even now when there is a pandemic of AIDS, Africans
in America seem unconcerned. There is the war in Sierra Leone, where thousands of children and
women have been raped, decapitated and murdered. Africans in America have not lifted a finger of
annaabi.ee 
