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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (730)2/19/2007 7:19:55 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1267
 
I clashed with a professor in grad school for arguing in a final exam that Africa's biggest weakness is its leadership; he believed socialism would work in Africa if the world somehow gave it space to be enacted fairly or faithfully or some such nonsense.

Your point is apparently very similar to the type of point you where criticizing me for making. The big idea of socialism has been bad for Africa and would have been so no matter what the rest of the world did. A better big idea (that involved more freedom and less socialism) would likely have produced better results. My earlier point was just that the big ideas matter. Not that they are the end of things, or the most important thing, there just the beginning, once you have the right ideas, you still need a lot of skill and hard work to implement them.

I agree that overall leadership in Africa has been a huge weakness. Some of that weakness is incompetence in implementing policy, some of it is personal corruption and support of special interests over national interests, and some of it is getting the big picture wrong, and believing things like "socialism would work in Africa if the world somehow gave it space...".
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