‘Africa: Rich but Poor’ studies the world’s biggest and most dumbfounding disconnect – namely that between Africa’s resource and skill-rich capabilities, yet its existence as the poorest continent on the planet.
Amamoo attempts to make sense of the situation, while exploring ways for Africa to unleash its potential and become the leading global player it deserves to be.
In ‘Africa: Rich but Poor’ Amamoo examines what went wrong for Africa, and what the continent and the world could do to remedy its problems.
Why is Africa, the cradle of Mankind, the second largest and second most populous continent in the world, endowed with abundant natural and mineral resources, the poorest on our planet? Who or what are responsible for this sad situation? Are the colonialists alone to blame? What has been the input of Africans in bringing about this predicament? Any viable and realistic solutions to the present and future daunting challenges or is the great continent consigned to decades of more deprivation ignorance, human misery and diseases?
These are some of the pertinent questions that the author has tried to grapple with. He attempts to make the case that it is quite feasible in fifty years for all countries in Africa to be at least in the middle income group if certain actions and programs are adopted. Some views in this book may be found distressing and uncomfortable but they are meant hopefully to assist move Africa forward, so that the great continent of Africa as soon as realistically possible stops being the beneficiary of external aid, largesse and compassion.
The bottom line is that, in just two generations, we can practically eradicate poverty from Africa and provide people with an income and quality of life more than comparable with those in the west. The problem is that Africa and the world at large refuse to acknowledge the problems, let alone make changes and actually do something about them. This book lays the issues bare, forces people to wake up and listen, while also providing plausible and practical changes to transform the continent’s own prosperity and position on the world stage.
This thought-provoking book will appeal to all what have interests (investment, economic or political ) or relations in Africa
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