AFRICA: Behind The Veil Of Poverty
Often while I was still residing in Britain, my like-minded peers and I used to discuss why Africa found itself in abject poverty. The debates would go on for hours on end, I Pads and laptops at the ready to extract figures and other relevant information from the Internet. The topics would range from authority, corruption, education, politics, food security, natural resources and many others. In these discussions we would try a new approach, instead of focusing on the negatives, our aim was to militate against the problems our continent faced through innovation. This in away helped us to focus our energy on productive avenues and to think outside of the box without getting frustrated or demoralised by the on going situation back home. I would frequently argue that the causes of Africa’s major ailments came from one source “inequality”. I was adamant that a continent with such vast natural resources could give its population the opportunities to develop. If a person could fe