Your Comments on Africa's Successes
The African Successes post has generated a vigorous exchange of ideas. I appreciate receiving your comments on the study, your suggestions for success stories, and your views on development approaches that have worked and those that have not.
Many of you felt, as I do, that we need to highlight Africa’s recent successes. Your responses voiced strong support for a focus on education, knowledge and dissemination, health, private-sector development, agriculture (irrigation and fertilizer), community-level development, governance, infrastructure, and information and communication technology.
Your unique experiences and observations provided valuable insights. Some of you questioned the usefulness of transferring successful models. Whether you agreed or disagreed with the thrust of the study and its approach, your comments were thoughtful and provided a basis for further discussion and discourse.
Thank you for contributing to the rich discussion on development achievements and successes in Africa.
As we progress with the study and develop in-depth case studies, we will post them on this blog and other websites. I look forward to continuing this robust exchange of ideas and experiences.
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Africa- the way foreward
The only virus that has been plagueing Africa and which has been major impediment to growth and development in every facet is " Bad leadership"
sincerely not only when this monster is confronted and defeated then will Africa grow.
Besides corruption, Intellectual capacity need to be developed not just relying on what nature has given to us but harnessing it to developed other areas of human endeavour is equally important.
Take a cue from Nigeria for instance, that Nation was doing very great prior to the oil boom , oil discovery eventually change the entire history of the nation from viability to vulnerability to everything negative in life.Nigeria used to be generating revenue from different sectors but now it has turn to a monoresource based country- reason is traceable to bad leaderaship which breed corruption and economic downturn.
Poverty they say its Africa's major problem but i believe poverty is not our problem but a result of what is got when corruption reign,poor leadership in place and priorites are misplaced.
The way foreward is simple we need to confront corruption and bad system of government in Africa. developed both human and natural resouces through investment in education and research, by so doing in few years to come African dependency on foreign aid will drastically reduced.
Africa has all it takes to be
Africa has all it takes to be the richest continent on earth but the problem with most of us is that we think we can't succeed unless we travel abroad. If we work hard in Africa like the way we do abroad, there would be no poverty and hunger in Africa. I think another problem facing Africa today is "brain-drain" or maybe "false ideas".
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