I have always had an interest in Africa, the second-largest of earth's continents after Asia. In my early boyhood, my family included clergy of the Roman Catholic Church who performed humanitarian and educational missionary work there, this being the 1960's when many of today's African nations were first emerging or not yet present; as an adult "Buckley" Conservative, and in such nature always a freedom advocate globally, I have shared in the tears and joys of seeing apartheid end in South Africa, particularly in the former Rhodesia.

However, we must consider the state and composition of the present day Africa; I would respectfully direct readers to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa for a manifestly accurate crash course in Africa dynamics generally.

Now, first off, Africa contains Caucasians, Arabs, and non-white indigenous peoples, ranging from the nomadic to the well-to-do; there is no one single "people of Africa" today, nor any one "religion of the continent". Second, some places are more or less okay, but too many contain Janjaweed/Bashir/Darfur or similar death squad-style governance; for many years, Western and USA groups have raised very much money for the children, AIDS, and starving people in such lands, yet by Bono's/ONE's current plaints to absolutely no avail. Third, clergy of all sorts often find their hands tied these days, as for example in Eritrea where a few years ago the government arrested native priests and their Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Church, replaced them with government-installed clergy, and kept the Patriarch to this day under house arrest.

Clearly, just throwing infinite money infinitely to the "bad boys" of assorted African governments won't work; and if you'll compare the size of Africa to arable/habitable North America including Canada, it's not even close that we could airlift all the African continent to our hemisphere, set them up in New Urbanism, and run it all on free healthcare, imported foods and grains, and generally sedentary-lifestyle Socialism in the provision (and thus "State's health comes before individuals" say-so renditioning from) of just about everything; to boot, the perennial clods abroad would STILL be there, constantly sending such "surplus" to our neck of the woods for whatever is....deemed fit?....by who's in charge any given day.

There is an element out there which sees itself as poised to be monopolistic in the industries (like autos, medicines, inter alia) providing en masse swiftly made if riskily QC passed products for such literal "house arrest" society, and like Liberals, clergy, and Bono types also wants to "help Africa" desperately...if on wholly different "altruism". 

But at a time when so many are saying not even folks with sterling credit and income can get credit from bailed-out institutions, whether through say Bush-level William Blair & Co or even Capital One; where jobs and abilities to open small or ANY business locations are dwindling at light speed; and where it's better to restrict Federal mental power to just suing Blagojevich, and hold up a new Attorney General and Treasury Secretary, rather than see a Fitzgerald or similar US Attorney sic themselves on whoever's log jamming all of America's cash, one hopes the only "change" some will allow isn't simply "change Africans for Hispanics for eight years" while the march for neocon monopolies and a totalism-policed sedentary society remains the only game in town.

Surely, such would make progress of a kind slow but inevitable, per Obama's Inaugural speech; one hopes Obama really means more that he will support the African Union re G-20 membership, human rights and local healthcare improvements, that kind of Hayek/Buckley-friendly stuff, with America then to lead by example while encouraging democratic inclusion and control of other peoples' cultures in their own present lands, that they may trade and grow in unique cultural ways...which preserve the ethnic diversity of the African continent, and recognize there is no Doudou Diene bullet to dodge in such regard.

One would hope America will avoid a manifest "change" simply being taking Bush's: "All Latinos are Mexicans, Mexicans want to work, slacker anecdotal USA types fill volunteer things on credit, Mexicans need compassion as they aid us in the war on gathering storms and terror just by being here so give 'em whatever they need if apparently totalist or Socialist in substance, watch all people of any faiths who have religious interests outside government-led Churches on ruse Islam works that way and so does militant jihadism (talk about a real crusade!), have the government coincidentally fund Churches open to transfer to them of all public welfare under pro-discrimination Calvinist/Puritan predestination beliefs allowing some to be deemed damned or saved by clergy, and expand monoplistic provision of healthcare and goods via select few sources even if on poor quality controls", and under Obama then manifestly the same government types saying: "Ditto, just replace with the word 'Africans' wherever the word 'Mexican' was seen in Bushspeak".