Senegal sells chunk of Africa to North Korea to pay for monument to honor Africans (Not the Onion)
cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/04/03/senegal.statu...Posted Apr 5, 2010, 12:10 PM UTC
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I think that you should have submitted this to WTF, IMO
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Well, if Jesse Jackson gives it his OK, then it must be great!
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How stupid is it that to make the statue showcasing the pride of Africa, they had to raise the money through irresponsible means despite lingering poverty in their country?
I guess they can just nationalize and take away the land anyways. North Korea can't attack them, and no one will go for North Korea's side (well, except China, but given China's history of nationalizing assets it would be hypocritical)
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Do we know what they wanted the land for?
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President Abdoulaye Wade said the statue is a monument to Africa's renaissance. But it's actually a monument to inability to make their own statues.
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I did a double-take when I read that Jesse Jackson felt the need to speak at its opening.
It's a cool statue, though... I guess. Even if it is a monument to vanity and mismanagement.
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Jesse Jackson... how do you manage to show up everywhere... why do you show up everywhere?
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I know right... he was even at this Snowmen March.
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How can NK afford to buy anything ?
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They sell the Food aid they receive from the US. No shit. Instead of feeding their own population.
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Not looking at the back-story or the controversy here, and just the statue itself, its pretty frackin' awesome.
Very reminiscent of old Soviet-style statues like 'Mother Russia".
I like it a lot.
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Fuck Jesse Jackson.
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Wow, it seems that the culture of buying inessential extravagances despite being in poverty has roots in the homeland!
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oh, here it comes: Down with Korean colonialism!
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Bought using printed Kim Il-Sung monopoly bucks?
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Egomaniacal frivolity like this is why african countries are still so underdeveloped.
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Well, North Korea routinely fucks over its own people for the "glory" of its own nation, so it's kind of a fitting trade.
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oh man...so this is where the money goes whenever a deposed african prince emails me asking for credit card information so he can reclaim his throne!
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Its a fitting monument to the terrible governance of Africa.
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I hope North Korea plans to plant crops to feed it's starving people on that 20 million dollar piece of Senegalese property they just bought. WTF??