Long ime ago, Mao had declared that Africa is ripe for revolution. Today, an economic revolution is taking place. As for the Goa case regarding Nigerians, I used to hear during a quarrel between two Goans when one would declare, "tun sarko Hapri murre." Maybe this was part of the Portuguese influence who felt that Africans were uncouth, un-intelligent and troublesome. When a Goan like Ravi Naik makes a racist remark one can only say that he is suffering from colonial hangover, as some Goans do. In Toronto, lot of "white" people would sell their houses when more Blacks bought houses in the neighboured. Similarly, whites were moving out when more Indians moved into the neighbourhood. Check Springdale in Brampton, which is nicknamed Singhdale, and also take a look at the Goreway Drive nearby the Hindu temple where it would be difficult to fiind white families. Rightly, those Nigerians who were living in Goa "illegally" had to be rounded-up and deported long time ago. I have been to the Calangute/Anjuna area and I am not surprised that Goans and Nigerians would be sharing pot and other things. The Russians took over Morjim and I could see mostly "white" skin. Ravi and his son Roy was alleged to be hand-in-glove with the drug mafia, and now he's probably want to show clean hands. Politicians patronised these people and now they are crying foul. Coming back to Africa, India seems to have borrowed the slogan, India Rising, which the Vajpayee government promoted, from Africa Rising, which Africa sounded as the African nations were making economic progress. The Goa government should use proper procedure to contain the Nigerian problem, so that law-and-order prevails.
Eugene On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Mervyn Lobo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Roland wrote: > > > > > On the one hand India's natural enemy China has been making vast inroads > > into Africa ahead of even the western powers and here is India doing the > > exact opposite. > > > > Great power, dear Modi? > > > > Roland Francis > > 416-453-3371 > > > > Roland, > 1) No country has a natural enemy. The peoples who have become prosperous > are those who trade with their neighbours i.e. the next village, the next > province, the next country and even the next continent. When you have a > 'natural' enemy, you have, in the best case scenario economic stagnation > and in the worst case scenario, politicians draining the exchequer to pay > for weapons instead of social services. > > 2) India's trade with Africa was well over a billion US dollars a week last > year and is expected to double in the near future. > > 3) The value of Indian exports to Africa exceeds that of what the US > exports to Africa. > > 4) About six months ago, India invited 50 African countries to a trade > conference where it changed its focus from trade to investment in Africa. > It is doing all the right things. Your opinion is entertaining, but > contrary to reality. > > Mervyn >
