The liberalization of most of the third world countries, especially Africa, has brought a great divide between the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate- alienating the Western's model of governance. In as much as the liberalization movement in itself is a positive model of governance for the development and a window to participate at a global market arena; it has bad repercussions, if not done in consideration of the have not.
Most of these third world countries, have lost the culture and customs that sustained their way of life before the urbanization and industrialization of the countries. With the countries under siege by liberalization, it is imperative that the people go back to the way of their forefathers life- which was subsistence farming. Without going back in time, the sustainable life style of the old should be incorporated into the modern existing structure to lessen the dependence on declining labour jobs. With most of the national resources privatized, the bulk of the population is left out, unable to make a decent living and resigned to roam the urban streets- for they have been distanced from their kraal and their creative way of life.
The biggest question on most people's minds is: "why can't Africa rid itself of poverty, given its rich natural resources.?" A land rich in precious stones, and yet less than a fraction of the African mothers and daughters can afford on them, a grain of gold, diamond, emerald, to mention a few. Their sons labour day and night, and their gain is blisters sustained from machetes and guns in the fields of war- killing themselves for unseen profits in the fields they should labour to gain needed food.
The land of great rivers and yet the fish does not make it to the Africans tables, for it is all commercialized, and mostly restricted from the African who has forgotten his forefathers' old ways of environmental preservation; where man lived side by side in harmony with nature. The ravenousness to seek individual profits has collided the Africans, who before the liberalization, practiced common ownership of the vast resources, even after their independence from colonial rulers.
Their parents' generation comes from the imperial era, where the native way of life, culture and values were misunderstood:- perceived savagery by the colonialist, and abandoned to give way to what was confused for literacy. This is a generation that went through a define moment, when the African family unite was disturbed, setting the pattern of the present state of Africa's family affairs. With the mining rush in most of the African cities, men had to leave the families behind- living women to bring up the children. Women alike immigrated to be maids in the growing colonialist's households. This caused one of the largest displacement of mankind. One of the less or unrecorded statistics of human's displacement in the history of mankind.
Since this move from their ancestral land, an African has failed to return to the land, meanwhile dependance and demand on labour jobs keep growing, while the openings are limited. An African before the colonialist industrial revolution was nothing close to individualism or materialistic as he is now, lusted with greedy.
The present generation is one that has attained education, and is seeing great innovations in science and technology, but only a small margin can afford it. This is because of the cleavage dug by liberalization and privatizing of the national resources- in order to create jobs, and continue the flow of foreign currency, to which few opportunities are open for the minority elite to own a block on the global corporate stage. The countries not open to liberalization have suffered great abandonment, and are shut from participating on the open global market, leading to mass suffering, who in most cases are women and children.
This is exactly what has happened to most of these countries, who at independence, their currency was, one to one with the British pound. At independence, no one was greater than the other, education was equal for the rich and the poor, and everyone had a chance at education.
Liberalization was a well intended move most of these Countries embarked on, but is also one that has left them with casualties, worse than the colonial era. Broken Governments, unable to feed or provide needed primary healthy care to its people.
