Chapter 1018: No Matter How Poor We Are, We Must Not Be Poor in Education
Compared with the veterinarian president, the coup president is better at fooling the people.
Everyone knows that AIDS is a terminal illness that is currently difficult to cure, and the AIDS prevalence in Gambia is quite high. The only person in the world who has publicly claimed that he can cure AIDS is this coup president.
For a long time, the coup president's clinic at the Banjul hospital specialized in treating AIDS and asthma. Because the "prescriptions" were priceless and his health would be affected by the treatment, he only treated three patients a day. He looked like a hermit!
How was it treated? They chanted to the patient using scriptures and prayer beads, then gave him some unknown "herbs" to take, and then declared—his illness was cured!
The most amazing thing is: Gambians actually believe it! The queue of people could last for a hundred years!
Seeing that the Gambian people were being fooled, the UN Special Envoy to Gambia, Fadji, could no longer bear it and publicly called on patients to use regular medicines for treatment!
Then a week later, Fadji was expelled from Gambia on the grounds that he "did not believe in science."
The aunt of the coup president who "believed in science" passed away in 2009, and he insisted that it was a witch's doing. So the whole of Gambia started a "witch hunt" operation, and arrested more than a thousand old ladies in Gambia and said they were witches.
Moreover, the military-born coup president had a very arrogant rule: he allowed the security forces to "shoot first and ask questions later"! For a time, the whole country was in chaos.
Now things are actually getting back on track - at least there are signs of getting back on track: a few years ago they got a new president, re-established diplomatic ties with China, and embarked on the path of renewed development.
How did the new president emerge? The previous president, who came to power in a coup, felt his presidency was secure after more than two decades in office. He even agreed to run for president, boasting, "Whether you vote for me or the opposition, I'll win. If a district chooses to side with the opposition? Sure! From now on, my government won't be able to take advantage of them."
Then he was completely defeated.
At first, he felt that he was tired of being president and admitted his defeat. However, when he learned that he would be charged with various criminal acts during his term, he changed his tune and said that the election was manipulated by foreign forces and refused to recognize it. He also began to arrest the new president. The current president of Gambia was not sworn in in his own country but announced his office in the Senegalese embassy.
In the end, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) jointly dispatched a five-nation coalition army to station troops on their country's border. Seeing that things were going badly, he took the national treasury's money and fled to Guinea, where he lived a wealthy life...
Many things that happen in Africa are so magical.
According to ordinary people's thinking: Isn't it a joke that such a ridiculous president can serve as president of a country for more than 20 years?
In fact, in Africa, whether it is a veterinary president or a coup president, they are all "good presidents" in comparison.
The rulers of African countries, especially those in West and Central Africa, are almost every bit as bizarre as the last. Five of the three most brutal tyrants in modern history were from Africa.
How come there are five people among the 'Three Great Tyrants'?
It's like this in Africa. If you take it seriously, you will lose.
Anyway, compared to those five pieces of material, these are all kind. At least they don’t eat people, right?
That's right, it's cannibalism. For example, former Ugandan President Amin was the one who demanded that the United Nations headquarters be moved to Uganda; sent a telegram to the Queen of England asking her to marry him and ask for her old underwear; and said that Uganda was the geographical center of the earth and called himself the King of Scotland, but he killed and cooked his own wife.
He has many wives anyway, thirteen of them officially, and countless more informally. After eating one, he still has a whole bunch left...
Of course, with the intervention of various countries, the situation in Africa has been getting better and better in the past decade, and fewer and fewer dictators and tyrants have been overthrown.
But according to Xiao Peng's personal observations, life hasn't changed much for ordinary people, especially in rural areas, where there's no running water or electricity, and life remains essentially the same.
Before coming to Africa, Xiao Peng heard an interesting saying in China: Africans are poor but happy. The implication is that they follow traditions, are content with the status quo, and sing and dance every day, feeling incredibly happy.
I don't understand how ignorant they must be to say that.
Are Africans lazy? Compared to the Chinese, they are indeed lazy. But how many ethnic groups on this planet are more hardworking than the Chinese?
Take Gambia, for example. It's rich in resources, with the Gambia River in the middle and tropical rainforests on both sides. It's easy to get enough food, but without storage, people have to worry about food every day. If they run into bad weather and can't get enough food, they'll starve!
Don't they want a good life? They dream of it! It's just that they have no other options! The best way for a country to become strong is to "enlighten its people." As the saying goes, "Even if you're poor, you can't be poor in education." If the people's education doesn't keep up, the country won't be able to develop!
Just like when the coup president said he could cure AIDS, why did his people believe him? In their eyes, illnesses can only be cured with herbs and witchcraft! That's how they think. Many people have never left home in their lives, and they believe that this is how illnesses should be treated!
Don’t Africans want to improve their lives? They want it even more! But there’s nothing they can do!
Why are there so many poachers here? They're just trying to improve their lives! Wasn't poaching rampant thirty years ago when China was poor? Weren't the Tibetan antelopes nearly wiped out by poachers?
So many people take the risk of poaching. If life were easier, who would take such a big risk?
Nowadays, African countries attach great importance to protecting animals. In fact, a considerable part of it is because of money: Western NGOs give them money to protect animals. So to put it bluntly, protecting animals is also for money, poaching animals is also for money, and sometimes the people who protect animals and poach animals are the same group of people.
Xiao Peng could no longer stay in Africa. He felt it was new and fresh when he first arrived, but people are all made of flesh and blood. Seeing the three or five-year-old children in the rural tribes eating rotten rice in small bowls crawling with flies, Xiao Peng felt mixed emotions.
The most terrifying thing is that as Xiao Peng watched more and more, he became numb!
I really can’t stay in a place like this for too long!
Originally, Xiao Peng planned to go south to Namibia, but now all he wanted to do was get there quickly and leave Africa.
At this time, a phone call disrupted Xiao Peng's schedule!
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