But he buys this crap and foists it on people who have no need or desire for it. Sure it helps Africa’s GDP but the West’ll just end up with a bunch of white elephants!
]]>We need to accept that as things stand at the moment we can’t just go out there an be competitive eg our lack of infrastructure makes transport costs excessive & we don’t have technology support systems to introduce whats standard out there.
We don’t have to apologise for this and don’t have to feel its a slight when this type of shortcoming is identified.
Lets use the offers with the clear objective of fixing what’s holding us back, so that we can be part of this new world.
]]>I think it will take a long long time for the world to view African suppliers as competitive suppliers. There are many people around the world who cannot 5 countries on the continent. We are seen as that dark continent where everyone is destitute and everyone is a beggar.
What can we do though as Africans to do this ?
Maybe we should start a http://www.AfricaMatters.com and ask the blogosphere to put a banner across their blogs similar to the ‘make-poverty-history’ banner. In order to drive traffic to that site where the world can see all the positive contributions out of Africa and all the success stories ?
We have people right this moment racking their brains on how to begin an eBay, a Paypal, a Sega right here. And some of them are well on their way. So you’re right on target that those who wish to be part of the success story are better off making alliances. Charity will not be rejected, but that is not where Africa’s information age billions lie.
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