Here's an interesting facet, as black extremist advocacy has gained territory in the West, I find it progressively harder to find realistic comment on the state of Africa and the 3rd world. The conflicts and tribal wars get nastier, the criminality and corruption becomes more prevalent, but the reportage compared to 20 or even 10 years ago is hugely reduced. It's there locally, but increasingly it only gets through via 'alternative' or minority news aggregator websites. The MSM act as if the daily slaughters, kidnappings and tribal conflicts were near-non-existent. If another Rwanda occurred, would we even hear of it? At Mandela's funeral, the media were slobbering over the celebs and politicians who turned out, but no-one asked anyone for an opinion on the crowd booing the new regime because of their corruption and incompetence.

It would be a very interesting experiment to withdraw all outside support from sub-Saharan Africa. I'm guessing that the reversion to jungle conditions would occur within a matter of a few years.

That's already occurring on the fringes of the mega-cities in Nigeria and Kenya. The infrastructure does not exist and planned housing is an alien concept. But rather than establish 'new towns' to accommodate rampant population growth, the joke governments simply allow informal urban sprawl, with water and energy shortages, disease and crime. The running joke at one time was the regular conflagrations in Nigeria as squatters breached the surface pipelines to drain-off fuel for cooking and heating. Another interesting item I saw was a photo of local gangsters walking their pet jackals on leads.