African leaders urged to give backing to research

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• Osagefo 11 years ago

  Stop making excuses
  
  The US president has told African leaders to look inward for solutions to the continent's economic problems instead of making "excuses" based on a history of dependence and colonisation.
  
  Barack Obama ...
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  Stop making excuses
  
  The US president has told African leaders to look inward for solutions to the continent's economic problems instead of making "excuses" based on a history of dependence and colonisation.
  
  Barack Obama, who was speaking to 500 young Africans finishing a six-week Washington leadership fellowship, will host the Africa leaders summit in Washington next week. He said while it was important for developed countries to consider providing targeted debt relief, it was time to end the notion that all of Africa's problems resulted from "onerous debt imposed by the west".
  
  "At some point, we have to stop looking somewhere else for solutions, and you have to start looking for solutions internally," Obama said. "And as powerful as history is, and you need to know that history, at some point, you have to look to the future and say, 'OK, we didn't get a good deal then, but let's make sure that we're not making excuses for not going forward.'"

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• OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

  Source: Daily Guide...
  
  All of a sudden nonentities want to portray to the world how close they were to the late President.
  
  Those who had to chat with him for one hour everyday, those Deputy Ministers who had to call h ...
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  Source: Daily Guide...
  
  All of a sudden nonentities want to portray to the world how close they were to the late President.
  
  Those who had to chat with him for one hour everyday, those Deputy Ministers who had to call him every morning before the man could even brush his teeth, and still those who would be called to the Castle by the late President to express his appreciation for job well done after they had gone to insult political opponents in the media on his behalf. Shameless id.iots raising their egos

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• Kofi Virginia 11 years ago

  One of the problems to research is funding, but thst is not all. There is also the view by our leaders and even our society in general that research reports by outsiders is more credible than our own institutions. There are t ...
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  One of the problems to research is funding, but thst is not all. There is also the view by our leaders and even our society in general that research reports by outsiders is more credible than our own institutions. There are those political leaders who think that they know better than the researchers and refuse to listen. Then there is also the problem where NGOs have claimed the field and pushed out individual researchers out of the domain.

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• Conventional Youth 11 years ago

  Research goes with strategy & governments has to enhance the environment for creativity, Innovation & Sustainable developments

  Research goes with strategy & governments has to enhance the environment for creativity, Innovation & Sustainable developments

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• Whatever 11 years ago

  If we don't take research seriously then we should forget about catching up with the Advance world

  If we don't take research seriously then we should forget about catching up with the Advance world

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