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June 21, 2005
Robert Guest: 'Africa's Future Is In Africans' Hands'
"When Tony Blair and his pop-star friends say that we in the West can "Make Poverty History", they are setting us an impossible task," contends Robert Guest, who ended his tenure as The Economist's Africa editor in May 2005.
"I don't mean that Africa will never prosper - it will," added the author of The Shackled Continent: Africa's Past, Present and Future, in a June 20, 2005 article at Scotmans.Com. "But when it does, it will be through the efforts of Africans. Outsiders can help, but only at the margins. No region ever grew rich from handouts."
Correct. But the U.S. and some nations in Europe and have gotten rich from exploiting the African continent's human and natural resources. Now it's time for Africa to exploit the continent for its own benefit. Here's more of Mr. Guest's analysis.
Posted by Munir Umrani at June 21, 2005 06:17 AM
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