Casualties of the Third-World Wars

It is true that there were evils in, for example, a continent like Africa. I watch films of that Africa and I see what the colonial masters think is a justified rationalism behind their actions. But a reading of the greatest black novel of all times, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, without any premeditated conclusion will reveal a lot. For one, we cannot pronounce a tribe barbaric until we have spent time to understand the life of that tribe. A change procured through such understanding will in the long run be sustainable with little backlash as inherent in such sudden swap of culture. This backlash is the main cause of the everyday wars the third worlds face.

The exceptions to the above are simply because some of these countries are doing for themselves exactly what the colonial masters failed to do. But some countries have so much gone down the wrong way that they have remained countries only in vast potentials alone. Measures to check this trend like the MDGs, grants, aids etc have not checkmated this unfortunate trend. These countries and their inhabitants are the casualties of the third world war.

Take for instance, Nigeria. The ailment this war has left the country with is bad leaders. Everything else you might have heard about Nigeria that is bad is secondary.

In the third world countries today all that happens in wars are happening. Human rights only exist in name, not in practice. Darfur is one recent case. Civilization has not ended those human sacrifices on the altar of gods; it has only given Darfur sophisticated weapons to sacrifice humans on the altar of the gods of corruption, prejudice, genocide and an interesting Sudanese president.

The developed world is free of malaria but the African continent daily wages a war against these tiny insects. An African child dies of malaria every 30 seconds! Polio, tuberculosis and then we sigh; it seems this war cannot be won.

The colonialists should not take all the blame for the war, but for example, they contributed a lot to climate change in these countries and the accompanying danger to health is being witnessed in diseases that refuse to go away.

In the third world countries, we are witnessing what actually happens in wars.