MODERN communication technology has made it possible for people to be much more quickly aware of their plights and at times the causes for those ills or problems.
Africa has many a common problem making it difficult for the majority of their people to avoid sometimes unnecessary sufferings and burdens.
Among others, problems facing Africans include: less faith and trust in their own human resources; overdependency on foreign investors; weak entrepreneuship due to misguided economic and technological policies; zero innovation and practical or applied research delivery; misuse of aid and grants; tribalism, sectarianism, nepotism; lack of self-sufficiency in water and food; weak infrasstructure; weak and undemocratic governments; little investment in education and health; lack of good management and economic practices as well as many other country specific problems.
Africa's development depends very much on the frequency and openness of how we discuss together in never ending conferences and symposiums about these issues. Is it not time that Africans and their well-wishers start at least to uncover and rediscover about these problems and how individually and collectively can tackle those problems. Followed by a comprehensive study of how such problems and challenges can be turned into economic and social development opportunities instead of remaining forever as problems to or of Africans.
God has given us the grace of having youths who are more intelligent and resourceful than in times past. If we take the first step like the children of millipedes most of our kids and youths can bypass a lot of unnecessary rubbish that others are exposed to, before they mature and show their true capabilities and abilities. And the time is now, of course, using jobless Americans, Asians and Europeans who love Africa and Africans.
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