Originally Posted by Johntina 
The question is how many Black African elected leaders have demonstrated the amount of sincerity shown by Blair or Bush so far towards his people and Black Africa as a whole?
The time and energy to criticise Blair should have been channelled towards criticising ones state governor or local government chairman. Neither Britain nor America nor any other country owes Black Africa or the Black race any duty of care whatsoever! I believe we should have no ground for criticising Blair so much because he owed us no duty at all.
I agree on a lot of points in your post especially the part highlighted above.
However, I slightly do not believe that the UK and America as the rest of the west are not to blame for the state of Africa today. I won't dwell on the slave trade or the mass movement of raw materials from Africa to the west centuries ago but will rather mention very briefly some others. It was very self serving the values and politics they left us with upon independence. They have played a lot of roles overtly or behind the scenes in a lot of the violence in the continent for the past 50 years. They fund coups or wars to get their clutches on governments or crude oil or gold or diamond. They write policies and export them to us in our vulnerable times to milk us dry and in turn make us dependent on them. They draft international laws and treaties that will make us not support ourselves and open our markets to them while they are able to continue subsidizing themselves. I could go on and on...but I believe you get my drift.