WHERE IS AFRICA GOING?
Out-of-the-Box Thinking in an In-the-Box World
[img]http://1.bp..com/-eLluBp8snXA/U_KjQiJc4II/AAAAAAAAAdE/lUX1MEcboHo/s1600/Philip-Emeagwali.jpg[/img] I once believed that capital was another word for money, the accumulated wealth of a country or its people. Surely, I thought, wealth is determined by the money or property in one’s possession. Then I saw a Deutsche Bank advertisement in the Wall Street Journal that proclaimed: “Ideas are capital. The rest is just money.” I was struck by the simplicity of such an eloquent and forceful idea. I started imagining what such power meant for Africa.

The potential for progress and poverty alleviation in Africa relies on capital generated from the power within our minds, not from our ability to pick minerals from the ground or seek debt relief and foreign assistance. If ideas are capital, why is Africa investing more on things than on information, and more on the military than on education? Suddenly, I realized what this idea could mean for Africa. If the pen is mightier than the sword, why does a general earn more than the work of a hundred writers combined? If ideas are indeed capital, then Africa should stem its brain drain and promote the African Renaissance, which will lead to the rebirth of the continent. After all, a renaissance is a rebirth of ideas. And knowledge and ideas are the engines that drive economic growth. When African men and women of ideas, who will give birth to new ideas, have fled to Europe and the United States, then the so-called African Renaissance cannot occur in Africa. It can only occur in Paris, London and New York.
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EasternLeopard: The day this fellow builds a reputable computer institute in Igboland, that day I will take him serious

The most important thing in life, is using your blessings to the good of others

Pls ask this fellow

What are his contributions to Igboland technologically

EasternLeopard: The day this fellow builds a reputable computer institute in Igboland, that day I will take him serious

The most important thing in life, is using your blessings to the good of others

Pls ask this fellow

What are his contributions to Igboland technologically

noblezone: in Nigeria, the Northern politicians are investing in Arabic and Sharia studies, they build mosques and sponsor trips to Mecca!

Their Southern counterparts are investing in trips to Europe, thuggry and community projects such as boreholes!

Then the rest of us, are struggling to get money to buy "imported" like car, shoe, etc and to install cable so we can watch CNN and "real" football!

Emeagwali, only a few people here will tune to your frequency, dont be suprised when some of them call you nanes!

victorVIC1: #Deep

QAPHAYNE: Wow thought provoking.