Bhekuzulu Khumalo, AfricaNews contributor in Canada
Once again there is the debate being discussed about the need to reduce the African population, a debate that has been there since the beginning of colonialism. Why would one suggest that there are too many blacks as the recent program on BBC radio suggested appropriately entitled "Should Africans have fewer babies?"

One starts of life innocent and then see the reality with time, Africans place according to a doctrine that suggests there are too many blacks is to be thought for by whites, with whites saying give us resources.
The question of too many blacks does not bother China, India, Japan, Vietnam, or Brazil for instance, it bothers the western intellectuall, a question driven by fear, fear for the same reason why one can not find a chocolate bar in Canada, USA, France made in Ivory Coast. The fear seems strange from people who talk of unity of humanity, obviously with whites running the show.
There are not too many Africans, not too many black people, one could just as easily say there are too many whites sucking the resources of the world, stealing with corrupt dictators they arm, but most other races to not degenerate into that type of evil talk.
Africa is underdeveloped not over populated, it is underdeveloped for various reasons, by imperialism, buffoonery and looking at today and forgetting about tomorrow, hence the minister will take all the money for a project then complain there is not enough aide when the project is half done.
Africans must begin to understand that there are no US interests, French interests or British interests in Africa. Once whites have an interests in Africa, where do blacks have an interest, whites will start saying we are too many because they have interests that should be our interests. Whites have interests in the Middle East, where will Arabs have their interests.
African interests are in Africa, it is time to let Africans work in Africa, where they can be African and build that continent. It is time to have equality before the law, where nobody is above the law and all are protected equally by the law, then the continent will develop, it will develop in a flexible manner, equality before the law is freedom, voting without equality before the law is just fooling people, and they know that in London, Washington, Paris.
A developed Africa, a Africa that has reasonable economic growth will mean people are busy, things will become more expensive, and will naturally have less children, but Africa has not been given the chance to develop by corrupt rulers and imperial forces. Egypt a country with 80 million people recently had a revolution, people where demanding real freedom not just elections, within weeks Cameron the English prime minister was in Cairo and slowed everything down, you can not allow equality before the law, give sham freedom like having an election, people with money campaign, they will be the leaders, without money how do you campaign, it is a sham, freedom comes from a constitution guaranteeing equality before the law, and that does not exist in any western country.
The Western model works well in a static world, where all the West is rich, it gets shaky when Japan gets rich, the quality of jobs decreases, shakier still when India and China have economic growth highlight becomes 50 000 jobs at Macdonalds, a fast food outlet, it will be shakier still should Africa grow, they will have to introduce equality before the law in the West, right now they can play hocus pocus.
An Africa with equality before the law which must include equal protection from the law, if A can open a bank for example, the law must guarantee B can open a bank not putting funny barriers like saying B needs $20 million in assets. An Africa with equality before the law means sustainable growth, white humans, men and women, fear the progress of any body, whist other races want a better world for all. Growth in Africa will force equality before the law in Western countries, a concept they do not want.
Are there too many African people, look at the question from all angles, why is somebody asking such a question, why do they gain by posing this question, what do they fear, develop Africa, barriers are there internally and externally find a way, do not target an economy, it is a whole, the whole thing must be free and you will find we are too few.