Why is Africa still held in contempt? It is entirely our fault. We have not yet used our tremendous, unequalled potential by converting it into strength. This failure has been on account of failing to detect 10 strategic bottlenecks. The strategic bottlenecks are the following: 1. Ideological disorientation; 2. Attacking the private sector; 3. Inadequate infrastructure that causes the cost of doing business to be exorbitant; 4. An underdeveloped human resource i.e. an uneducated population which is also in poor health; 5. Small internal markets that cannot stimulate and sustain large scale production by providing adequate demand; 6. Lack of industrialization and continuing to export unprocessed raw-materials whereby we get much less money than those who convert those raw materials into final products and also export jobs to other countries; 7. An undeveloped services sector which phenomenon under-utilizes our huge potential in tourism, transport, banking, etc, etc; 8. Underdeveloped agriculture – in Uganda, through research, we have discovered that farmers can produce 53 tonnes of bananas per hectare instead of the 10 tonnes the peasants have been getting – in Brazil they are already getting 80 tonnes of Bananas per hectare per annum; 9. Lack of democracy; 10. Lack of ideology creating a Criminal State – a State that, for instance, kills people extra-judicially instead of upholding the dignity of the people and their inalienable rights.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:16:33 +0000
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