No, I'm not excusing it, but I don't believe in completely self-congratulatory rants (which this article is) that do not take into account the help the Africans have had in arriving at this sad state.
A european writing about how pathetic Africa has become is like a rapist writing a column about how his victim is too depressed to get a job and a big loser.
It's mind boggling that anyone would write an article about the widespread dysfunction that completely ignores the role that modern colonization played.
If you could add context to this article, it would read something like this:
"Hey, all the white europeans did was enslave and destroy every traditional society in Africa....now it's up to them to be decent, and they're failing. Not our fault at all!"
What's obscene though, is writing an article ripping on the Africans for being so savage and then refusing to assign any of the blame to Europe for the savagery that destroyed their continent.
I only skimmed the articles, but from what I saw, he is accusing Westerners of screwing up Africa, via alleged charity, govt. aid, etc. I guess he could have blabbered about Europe's past sins of imperialism, but why? Is that some obscure fact that we don't hear much about? Would that help us to understand why the West's current practices are wrong, and how they should be changed?
I'm making a point about the causes of the current problems in Africa, not the solutions.
Indeed you are. So are a lot of people. The political left insists on constant mea culpas for Western guilt, which do little but help Westerners feel better by distancing themselves from the sins of their ancestors. But why do you demand that the author of these articles follow suit? He is, thankfully, not engaging in played-out hand-wringing about past evils, he is urging one possible solution for the future.