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[QUOTE]Originally posted by lamin: [QB] [QUOTE][b]lamin what African nation looks most promising to you for the future? [/b][/QUOTE]You always ask these kindergarten questions. OK, I will humour you. 1) A lot of rearrangement of the furniture must take place first. 2) African nations should form regional economic and political units. West Africa, for example, has ECOWAS, but it's just a BS piece of paper. France still runs those piddling Bantustan-like nations. When Mali was invaded by Islamists the Malian interim President Dioncounda Traore called on France to rescue Mali, he didn't call on ECOWAS. That's my point about the neocolonial weakness if these states. 3)A proper ECOWAS would have a strong convertible currency--after jettisoning the play-monopoly money the ECOWAS states now use. Maximum exchange rate should be 1 ECOWAS currency to 3 U.S. dollars. It's on this basis that resource-poor places like Iceland and New Zealand can show high per-capita GDP, etc. They just boost their currencies and the IMF just says "fine". 4) Tiny statelets like Togo, Cape Verde, Gambia, Gabon, etc. would no longer exist as tiny fish in a big pond but would be part of a big fish in a big pond. 5) Economic policies would include autarkic measures a la Friedrich List, the German economist, who closed off Germany from foreign industrial competition for its infant industries. In time, Germany became the industrial powerhouse of Europe. After a while try import substitution for vital commodities in manufacturing and industrial production. 6) In short, regional economic and political units, each with at least 150 million people, free movement of peoples, strong currencies, collective security along NATO lines, heavy investment in education, infrastructure, etc. A created lingua franca like Esperanto should be constructed for intragrouping usage. After all, all natural languages are artificial creations. 7) But all this requires serious-minded and mature politicians who have no compromised attitudes towards the West and are fully committed to African development. Like Nkrumah or Thomas Sankara were. Short answer to your kindergarten question. Now run off to your playpen and meet your little friends. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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