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RE: Re-Imaging Africa: Re-Framing Its Economic Challenge Part I
I think Africa's biggest problem is an inferiority complex in and among the comity of nations .....
Insofar as relationships between Africa and the outside world is concerned, i am of the strong opinion that it should one based on trade, the giver-giver relationship rather than the giver-taker one of aid.
If anything, the real African challenge is not poverty-reduction, as is currently wrongly framed. It is something else i will share in the third part of this discussion.
Thanks for your contribution.
@mirrors
Through the evolution of respective social environments in Africa, I believe that the "African's genetic code" will change this so called "inferiority complex".
Do you not think this is closely linked to history and the constitutions of each respective African state influenced by the French, English, Portuguese, Dutch, Germans and Belgians? Did I cover all of them? Notwithstanding, the cultural "hybrids" of each African state and how they affect neighbouring countries. And could this "inferiority complex" be caused by a lack of national cultural identity as opposed to the African identity?
In Europe, we experience a lack of "European" identity: I have lived in the UK, France and Germany, by choice, but every time I migrated, I felt a sense of inferiority. It would take me at least 10 years, in each country, to feel that I was on an equal footing, and probably had to work much harder to be "equal". My perspective.
Is it not strong leadership that could empower "Africans" to be even more self confident? If so, is it not the people who need to be taught to lead? It is from the people that politicians are "manufactured".
This will be a long process leading, not yet defined, to a new paradigm shift and not just Africa. We should start looking at empowering young children, as from the maternity school stage, and wait the 15 to 20 years, and more; "for the choice of a new generation!" There is no quick fix, but the "seed" can germinate today!
Where there is a will, there is a way! (Cliché)
Now to define; who has the will?
Look forward to reading your 3rd part.