In an article titled The
Second Scramble for Africa by lawyer Jason McCue, McCue notes the damaging
effects of international corporations scrambling for various resources
throughout Africa, inciting political turmoil, injustice, and financial struggle
in their wake. McCue mentions that with the meeting of international leaders in
New York for the UN General Assembly
this week, these leaders should not only focus on mainstream topics such as
wars and the migration crisis, but also on the devastating effects of what he
coins “the Second Scramble for Africa.”
Citing various destructive consequences
of the First Scramble for Africa, in which colonists carved Africa into
territories to reap the benefits of the abundant natural resources of the
continent, McCue aims to spur the international leaders into action by drawing
parallels of the modern issue to history. He notes that these international
corporations, either inadvertently or intentionally, cause political coups for
profit, strip the land of its natural resources, and reap the benefits of
Africa, leaving Africans in the dust and struggling to survive. McCue argues
that, “African resources must generate wealth for Africans,” and,
to do so, the once divided continent must band together under the African Union
to prevent the First Scramble for Africa from occurring once again.
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