A developmental conversation without economics in it, is like breathing in a world with no air



One of the great mistakes of the previous generation was they had no idea about business. How can a rich continent and a rich culture not also produce rich people? Accepting this vulgar contradiction as "noble" is mental slavery. Equitable ownership is the struggle, and if we are not struggling for this what are we struggling for? Ironically, the first generation of post-slavery liberators, Garvey, Duse, etc., were business orientated. Therefore, it is strange that business and revolution have drifted so far apart. Business is difficult for a people trained to depend and think inside of the employee model. Some of us have ten times the skills of Indians and Europeans (whites) yet we continue to work for them. It is a mindset, a conditioning to fear business ownership and stay forever in the safe environment of working for someone. There is a disconnected generation since Garvey and the Nation of Islam, which has played completely into the hands of their own oppression by ignoring economics.

If Africans were major owners of industry and technology, the issue of racism would disappear tomorrow!
The business world is Darwinism in savage motion, it is unforgiving and truly survival of the fittest. It is a dinner table, but of diminishing opportunities, but exploitation of these opportunities requires progressive thinking, and an investment in infrastructures. The threshold and standards of work, and the quality of our work ethic become critical in competing in this new world. Professionalism is critical in all of this, and in our Pan-African space, unity ultimately means pooling resources and intelligence and taking advantage of every opportunity to advance the majority,
The solution is complete ownership of the products/services that we use to live in a productive way. Creating business and employing our own people, and therefore empowering our people, creating wealth in the broadest sense and retaining that wealth within our own communities. The doors in which we traditional hemorrhage wealth to other communities must be closed off. [3] Our communities have been sold a concept of freedom that empowers "the other."

But ownership is central to freedom and there is no true concept of freedom outside of an economic framework.[3] So when we wear clothing, buy food, go to the doctor, buy a book or film on Africa, go the mechanic it is not freedom if not part of our own economic web.
SEDA South Africa In the business world, it seems that African people have acquiesced that we are intellectually inferior and incapable of going into business for the benefit of future generations and ourselves. Have we been brainwashed into forgetting that poverty is not a lifestyle and that mediocrity should not be tolerated? How is it that Africa is the richest continent on earth, yet has the poorest people? It is time for the colonial mentality in Africa (and the diaspora) to be squashed and eliminated for the sake of the next generation.

The failure to not only own but also to run businesses is connected to the inherited legacy of enslavement and manifested in modern mental slavery. The root symptom is a tendency towards myopic vision, and being non-committal.