Africa is endowed with so many resources. We have a lot of commodities in Africa. In fact, African trade to the rest of the world, according to a report, only less than 10 per cent comes into Africa. The remaining 90 per cent is from Africa to the rest of the world. We have raw materials. There are three chains» Abundance of raw materials »Extraction of raw materials and »Processing & conversion of raw materials. We are strong in abundance of raw materials, but in processing, we are very weak. Then, in consumption chain, we are very high. We have huge population growing. In Nigeria, for instance, we have oil to run everything. We extract it, sell it and it is processed somewhere and brought back to us in Nigeria. What helps economic growth is not so much of the abundance of natural resources that you have, but that middle chain of conversion process. That is what create jobs. That is what impacts the GDP of a country.
°It is better to deserve honour and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. Whatis worth doing atall is worth doing well. I just begin to wonder why people who has notmade good records are the people aspiring mostly to lead at all levels, only few deserve the honour. We have a lot of leaders without innovation, they cannot take few important things and build functional system into them.Because they see somebody leading a group, they want to lead their own group too withoutknowing the philosophy behind the ideology. They are not prepared for it before they get involved in it, that's why they suddenly become copycats, they don't have there own plans, no mission and no vision. Leadership without innovation ìs just like somebody waiting for the ship at the airport, it gets nowhere. How a leader ends his/her leadership is just as important as how he/she started it.