Africa on a perpetual misconception of poverty

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  READ: "...We live in a country where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use..."
  
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  READ: "...We live in a country where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use..."
  
  WE SAY: Now, that is a good observation, we must grant.
  
  ITEM: As we speak, President Mahama is in the UK. He is the "Honorary Keynote Address" at a so-called "Oxford Africa Conference 2015". He is pitching Ghana/Africa to "entrepreneurs", we guess, who will attend a "...'Gala Dinner' that will cost £55(GH¢346) for a student, and £80(GH¢504), for a non-student.
  But none of the delegates or the speakers, none of the attendees to the conference will not get to hear from:
  -- International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)
  -- Open Government Partnership (OGP)
  -- Transparency International (TI)
  -- Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI)
  -- National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
  -- Global Integrity (GI)
  -- Open Society Foundations (Soros.org)
  --Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
  -- European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)
  -- Ushahidi (Tools for Changing the World)
  -- Wiki Leak, etc.
  
  (Read all about it in our up-coming essay on Ghanaweb)!
  
  
  Our thanks to Mr. Atchulo Joseph!

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• Atchulo Joseph 10 years ago

  Prof Lungu, am indeed very grateful for your comments and contributions to my articles. I will be very glad if I could correspond with you on your mail

  Prof Lungu, am indeed very grateful for your comments and contributions to my articles. I will be very glad if I could correspond with you on your mail

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• His Legacy 10 years ago

  Thanks for reminding me of this article once again. Our African leaders are a disgrace to our great freedom fighters like Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Nelson Mandela, Steve Bicco, Only to mention few. Do you believe that t ...
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  Thanks for reminding me of this article once again. Our African leaders are a disgrace to our great freedom fighters like Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Nelson Mandela, Steve Bicco, Only to mention few. Do you believe that the above mentioned persons will allow the West with it allies to come and kill Gaddafi on the African soil? But let me remind you that Africa; we are the cause of our own woes! If you could analyse things intellectually you would say that the woes of Africa began when the great liberator of Africa (Nkrumah) was overthrown. Blakk Rasta the reggae artist and host of the taxi driver show on hitz fm played PO LUMUMBA'S tape. I strongly believe that Africa can change only when Ghana changes.
  Not trying to play politics here but this change could come by only when we ghanaians have a Change of mindset and vote for the CPP.

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