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Story: Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood

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Adebayo Omo-Dare, from your name I take it you are a Yoruba from Western Nigeria.
Well I am amazed you to hear you whine about ;
"Bill Gate's honour offer has been attached to the "so called" poor of the world - (West Africa, etc). "

As it happens,I was born and raised in Ghana, and worked in the then Ondo State of Nigeria as a teacher four years after finishing university.
And.. I worked deep in the rural areas ,with no treated pipe-borne water, no electricity, , very little medicines available for babies and children
Kids regularly died from contracting diseases from drinking untreated water and from easily treatable diseaseslike malaria because of lack of medicines.
We had similar problems in Ghana too.
The Europeans who basically came to Africa to plunder and loot and leave Africa destitute, just sat idly by all these years while up to 2000 children died every day from an easily treatable disease like malaria.
It took an American Bill Gates to come in and really pump in money, equipment and the infrastructure and personall to really tackle these problems.

For you, a Nigerian to sit in Britain and mindlessly attack Bill gates for the wonderful very vital humanitarian work he is doingin Africa is simply beyond belief!
I think you have maybe forgotten your roots.
And,... if you want to attack someone for doing massive damage to Africa,why don't you talk about that ex-leader of yours, one Sanni Abacha ,who was Nigerian head of state for 6 years and in that time managed to steal to the the tune of billions of dollars of Nigerian money and deposited the money in European banks,while most Nigerians starved?

A few more points:

1. It wasn't America that colonized and raped Africa.It was Europe. America owes Africa little. But Europe does.

2. Microsoft's sales/profits from sub Saharan Africa is close to zero. As you and I know, very few people have PC's in Africa.Plus even those who have them, simply pirate all the Microsoft software they need without paying anything to anybody.

3. Bill Gates has put in far more money into fighting diseases and poverty in Africa than Microsoft is ever likely to see in a very very long time to come.

4.For a dying,sick or starving child in Africa, all they want is relief and medicines and treatment, no matter where it comes from.For a bunch of Europeans(the very guys the plundered Africa) to make hypocritical whinny noises and complain when someone else is doing what they should have been doing themselves fin the past 40 years at least, is not only an outrage, its disgusting and beyond contempt!

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