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Friday, May 26, 2006

The Bilking of Africans

" Internet users in America pay $20 for one gigabyte of data per month, but people in Africa pay about $1,800 for the same amount of data ..."-- NextBillion.Net

This isn't all; Africans get bilked even more:

  • Africans in the Diaspora pay huge commissions and fees to send money (remittance) back home; western union takes at least $60 for every $1,000 sent.

  • Africans pay astronomical rates in airline tickets each time we visit our brethren in Africa.

  • Africans get hammered with huge fees by multi-international courier agents shipping our stuff from and to the motherland.

  • Africans pay ridiculously high tariff in telephone cost calling the continent.
  • Yet, Africans are the poorest and the more disfranchised people in the world!


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