re: Meanwhile, on Lake Victoria, Africa, 13 locals drown every day.....

Ghana is the best country though.

I can tread water for about a minute. I've tried and just can't get it.

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Ghana is the best country though.

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There's some truth here. But with fewer Muslims than their neighbor Nigeria and the same O & G resource allotment, they should be doing a lot better than they are. Again, tribalism is the cancer of Africa that no one can cure.

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Literally anybody with a high school diploma in America could take over pretty much all of non-muslim Africa within the matter of a year...

...assuming they survive the diseases and tribal warfare.

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the elite in the former English region send their kids to England
the elite in the French speaking region send their kids to France.

I picked Ghana out of the hat. the following is the WIKI of the political leader of Ghana. note his father was on their supreme court, and the person in question did his law degree in England. His name is funny though. Nana Addo Danka Akufo-Addo. two Addo's in there.

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Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was born in Accra, Ghana, to a prominent Ghanaian royal and political family as the son of Edward and Adeline Akuffo-Addo.[6] His father was Ghana's third Chief Justice from 1966 to 1970, Chairman of the 1967–68 Constitutional Commission and the non-executive President of Ghana from 1970 till 1972.[6] Akufo-Addo's maternal grandfather was Nana Sir Ofori Atta, King of Akyem Abuakwa who was a member of the Executive Council of the Governor of the Gold Coast before Ghana's independence.[6] He is a nephew of Kofi Asante Ofori-Atta and William Ofori Atta. His great-uncle was J. B. Danquah, another member of The Big Six.[7]

He started his primary education at the Government Boys School, Adabraka, and later at the Rowe Road School (now Kinbu) both in Accra Central. He went to England to study for his O-Level and A-Level examinations at Lancing College, Sussex where he was nicknamed 'Billy'.[1] He began the Philosophy, Politics and Economics course at New College, Oxford in 1962, but left soon afterwards.[8] He returned to Ghana in 1962 to teach at Accra Academy Secondary School, before going to read Economics at the University of Ghana, Legon, in 1964, earning a BSc(Econ) degree in 1967. He subsequently studied law in the UK and was called to the English Bar (Middle Temple) in July 1971. Akufo-Addo was called to the Ghanaian bar in July 1975.[9] Akufo-Addo worked with the Paris office of the U.S. law firm Coudert Brothers. In 1979, he co-founded the law firm Prempeh and Co.[10]

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I've been the area a number of times on the Kenya side, Uganda side, Tanzania side.

In many ways I would be flattering myself if I considered myself their equal. And no lack of intelligence there.

In some other ways they are not my (our) equal. But we are deluding ourselves if we think we're going to waltz in and teach them a thing a two. That just reveals ignorance of life there and our own arrogance.

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Thank you for saving this thread from being the day's winner for having the most posters with the least knowledge of the subject matter.

Let me make a very very important correction here, probably one that will change the course of this entire discussion.

I have seen pictures of Africans wearing life preservers, in fact, quite a few of them. So that statement is untrue.

Of course, they are wearing them as body armor and carrying AK-47s.

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Stereotypes don't appear out of thin air...

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Then why are there black olympic swimmers?

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Man...you are a strange bird but I'd have a beer with you Otto.

I wonder how you speak

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He used to post in haiku. It was hysterical.

Otto's always (unintentionally) good for a chuckle.

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If you can't figure out how to wear a vest, you probably aren't smart enough to live

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How can they not know how to wear a vest? It's essentially an oversized shirt with clasps.