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Seeing the mis-governance of some of Africa's leaders, I'm having difficulty determining how a common economy will benefit the continent. What garantee do we have that leaders won't be using the endowments for personal gain as seen in most African states? Bulding inte-continental bridges and common language all sounds very appealing and important, but do we have the capacity to do all these things?

2007-07-01 21:11:20 · 3 answers · asked by PassionateB 1 in Politics & Government Politics

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The Pan-African movement is another bloated ego trip for African leaders who think there must be some quick, easy way to have a prosperous economy.

However, building bridges that few trucks will use, and paving over the savannah with roads that there aren't even enough cars to justify is just a waste. I remember reading stories about Africa in the 1960's and 1970's. There was a lot of aid going to the continent, but instead of building necessary infrastructure, the megalomaniacal African leaders built lavish airports even though they didn't even have daily flights, and built highways that led to nowhere (one African leader built a huge highway, at the end of which he planned to build a new capital city.... pure pipe dreams. The road still leads to nowhere, and is probably just crumbling asphalt.

What African needs is to strike a deal with the West for their agricultural goods. They can't compete against the incredibly subsidized farmers across the globe, from Buenos Aires to Des Moines, Iowa to Tuscany.... all these farmers get subsidized for their produce, so the Africans can't compete.

The next thing is they must get AIDS under control, have a much better educational system, and keep educated Africans from fleeing to other countries. This is what they need, not ego boosting projects like hydro-electric dams and glorious looking bridges spanning chasms.

These African leaders are just so self-deceived. They personify the notion of putting the horse before the cart. It's like a company in Nebraska that figured it could take advantage of the high tech boom, and laid thousands of miles of fibre optic cable. The problem? Not nearly enough data to transmit. They lost 90% of the investment. This is how the African leaders are operating. They figure that if they had shiny new bridges, caravans of trucks laden with expensive goods could whisk across the continent and end up in the homes of wealthy Europeans. It's just nonsense.

2007-07-01 21:53:26 · answer #1 · answered by pachl@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0 0

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2016-12-18 21:39:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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2007-07-01 22:41:30 · answer #3 · answered by linda f 3 · 0 0

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