Godstud, you are a victim of what those who've studied Anthropology call "ethnocentrism", a horribly crass ideology that makes discussing Subsaharan Africans most difficult. But, it's ok - people like myself are here to educate you.
What a load of bullshit. Provide a source for your utterly racist and ignorant statement. That's about the stupidest thing I've ever seen posted.
...it's like I referenced my source in that post,
as shown in the book "US Neo-Colonialism in Africa", . A simple google search results in, "Stewart Smith. U.S. neocolonialism in Africa (International Publishers, NY, 1974)." Wikipedia tells us this about the publishing company,
International Publishers is a book publishing company based in New York City specializing in Marxist works of economics, political science, and history. The company was established in 1924 by A.A. Heller and Alexander Trachtenberg, using funds earned through a lucrative trade concession granted during the New Economic Policy by the government of Soviet Russia. The publisher has continued to maintain an extremely close working relationship with the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) throughout its more than eight decades of existence. It continues in operation in New York City today as the publishing arm of the American Communist Party.. The back of the book provides, in the form of biography, that the authors real name is Stuar. J Seborer, and that he entered college at the age of 15 and did graduate work Colombia & GWU. He was a Captain in WW2, recieved various medals, and left the USA due to McCarthyism and wound up in the USSR - where he wrote this book.
Want a specific page reference? How about page 111, "As late as the 1950's, in the Gold Coast, thousands of men have never seen a pick or shovel; in Nigeria, laborers carry baskets of ore on their heads; in the Ivory Coast quarries, men work without even the shovel and wheelbarrow because "it wasn't worthwhile to teach them as they were engaged only for a few days or weeks.""
I was able to locate this rather quickly, due to two things:
1. The book, although written for the masses, has an academic bent and therefor has an index.
2. The disparaging epithet for this laborers was "banana motor". That's quite memorable.