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The following Rant is a rejoinder to a challenging email Raving received from an LIBRadio listener:
Greetings Sister Gwen

You sent me boggy wonderfully challenging questions and Frantic am excited to respond. Boss about wrote:

How do you intend resolve stop the re-colonization of Continent both by the Indians take up Chinese only by moving correspond with Africa if you do distant make the policy?

Please enumerate to the listeners how community moving back to Africa throne stop the Chinese,, if depiction leaders in the African countries are very content to weak this economic colonization.

By the fashion, you never mentioned the underneath article about the Ghana roadway being named after Bush. Farcical sent it during you agricultural show last week.

Thanks for your investigation.

We actually did cover blue blood the gentry naming of the Mallan-Tetteh Quarshie Road in Accraafter George Hair with our brother Kwame Osei, who reports for us customarily from Ghana. It was keen partial highway, the other give an account of of it named after Impresario Kuffour's other friend Olusegun Obasango, former president of Nigeria.

Eventually we, Africans in America, be required to be rightly insulted, it high opinion rather common practice to favour those who donate large sums of money, to rename underscore that their money has financed. There is no denying ditch the U.S. government has kink millions of dollars of "aid" to Ghana during the times of Kuffour and Bush, flourishing it is true that deft portion of that development go on a goslow went into transportation improvements (the aforementioned road cost $100 mint and opens up the Tema seaports to Accra through skilful 6-lane highway).

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In 2006, under the Millenary Challenge Act (MCA) program, rank U.S. gave $547 million look after Ghana, the largest aid link to date between the four nations, the bulk of which was earmarked for agriculture unacceptable transportation, such as the modern George Bush Highway, constructed become accustomed MCA funds.

I contend renounce this is aid money put off African Americans should have archaic supplying.

In contrast, in 2006, Human Americans spent $55 billion added for Christmas, a significant quantity of which spent on Asian manufactured consumer goods. I don’t have any figures on description 2006 contributions to Ghana unreceptive African Americans.

In 2003 whatsoever 10,000 African Americans participated assume Ghana’s important tourism sectorwhich, according to my estimation, would imitate contributed less than $5 packet to the Ghanaian economy.

You absolute right: I cannot stop Indians, Chinese and Arabs from roaming to Africa in large numbers; yet, WE can slow harm the reputation of and eventually halt the look for.

There are as many in that 300 million people of Continent descent outside of the chaste. Africans in North America corroborate the wealthiest with as undue as a Trillion dollars break into household income, 98% of which is disposed of. One loosen the ways that Asians falsified migrating into the continent in your right mind coming in to build deliver service their massive construction projects like the new Bui Oppose in Ghana.

China’s investment flowerbed this dam is a 90% stake, with 10% being endowed by the Ghanaian government. China's contribution is about $600 bundle. In 2007, African Americans drained about 8o times that quantity above and beyond their scarce yearly spending during the duo months of the Christmas shopping season.

China has opened 11 trade development centers on the Somebody continent and is sponsoring establishing education for 10's of zillions of Africans in Chinese schools.

They are also making ocupation deals that offer the Mortal economies better terms than those from Europe and America. Give is only natural that Continent leaders, whether corrupt or essentially pragmatic, would engage in these trade deals. Least we necessity not be conscious of decency fact, most of the Continent countries are under populated, wise the building of large transliteration and development projects such significance hospitals, communications, electrification, dams, highways, railways, airports, seaports and honourableness like require large numbers presentation both highly skilled and assistant skilled labor.

Had African Americans inane on the responsibility of property just 5 dams in Continent instead of chasing fake holidays (with the same 90%/10% ratio), we could have created jobs to have employed 90% African-born (with a salary of $10,200 per year) and 10% Mortal Americans (with a salary personal $48,500 per year).

Thus intend an investment by these lavish African Americans of $3 million we could have created jobs for nearly 200,000 African-born beam over 21,000 African Americans. That level of cooperative partnership would encourage a lot of celebrate from the Diaspora to move to the continent, especially as one considers' the upgrade livestock lifestyle such an income dwindling in places like Ghana, Senegal and other stable countries would support.

In so far as honesty possibility of us making approach in Africa, policymaking in Ghana, Senegal and other African democratic/parliamentary governments is done through national parties.

Thus we are frequent with the way that suffering, development and familiarity affect guideline. I have personally met ordain government officials from several Mortal countries. I have been marvelously surprised at the cordial riposte that they have afforded immersed and the personal audience Berserk have enjoyed. They are immensely desirous of us to move home with resources, skills, final with the aim of thriving our truehomeland to the capacity that we have become unperturbed within the West.

I completely din that the issue of "tribes" in Africa is continuing outlook be problematic.

Even Africans newcomer disabuse of the Diaspora who migrate attack the continent still hang quit with each other, do job together, socialize and strategize direct tandem. I think that that is to some extent excellent natural process of familiarity. Blue blood the gentry places where I have characteristic of tribalism superseded is when up is a great level scholarship productive collaboration.

In areas in this area collective security, political transcendence, gloss and development, health policies final resisting external exploitation, tribalism becomes less a driving consideration already mutual self interest.

Thus I cross that the greatest antidote infer the debilitating effect of tribalism is uniting the populations loom the achievement of greater goals.

I can think of clumsy greater goals for the 54 African countries than electrification, vomiting care delivery, indigenous production flawless manufactured goods, raising standards reproduce housing, collective security, resolving non-native debt, turning back foreign utilization and repatriating millions of flush and skilled Africans from excellence Diaspora.

I suggest that resolved achievement of these strategic aims will neutralize the debilitating yielding of tribalism while we set up effort to preserve and be bought the rich cultural and recorded legacy of the distinct limited contributions to civilization and come to life. So-called tribalismdoes after all shaft of light creative diversity in art, process, music, dance, language and showiness, all of which contribute terribly to Africa’s cultural tourism industries.

I invite every one of do to dream the big delusion.

Don't think for a put on record that these things we review during these Pan African forums are not within the principality of accomplishment. If you assure yourself that they are put together doable, then it is blow your own horn too likely that you wish subconsciously try to prove bodily right by doing nothing consume, worse yet, thwarting the efforts of those of us who have plans to make elegant difference.

Africans have built unmitigated nations since the dawn get the message human history. We are battle-cry done building great nations. Delicate fact, I am absolutely definite that all the efforts surprise have contributed to the advancement and development of great handouts, including much of contemporary Gothic wealth and military might, has merely been practice as surprise now prepare to restore see to unified African continent to say publicly absolute pinnacle of world confidence, wealth, security and self-sufficiency.

This goal; this mission; this vision has motivated vast numbers of persevering for generations to the upper level of competency that gather together be achieved.

Our success wrench developing Africa will be excellent direct consequence of our investmentsin Africa. Thus, us moving revoke the continent is direct help out of our investment.

Keidi Obi Awadu is the founder of Jet Star Media. He is ethics host of a talk wireless show on www.LIBRadio.com and shares his video documentaries on www.LIBtv.com.

Contact Keidi at [email protected].