Who gave China money to develop? In 1992 China had a GDP of $428 billion. That is about the current GDP of the N-Country. Today, they have $11.8 trillion and 19.74% of the world economy. That is heavy? How did they do that? That will be another story.

This week African leaders are all in China begging for money.

This is how the meeting is going:

Chinese Leaders:
What do you want to do with it?

African leaders:
We want to build infrastructure like roads, railway and airports.

Chinese Leader:
Where are your plans?

African leaders:
We don't have a plan, we want you to come up with a design for us.

Chinese leaders:
Ok, where are your engineers to implement the plans?

African leaders:
We don't have the engineers with the right skills. we want you to send your engineers.

Chinese leaders:
OK, let me get you right. So you are asking us for the money, the plan of what to do with the money and the people to do the work?

African leaders:
"Yes"

Chinese Leaders make public announcement:
We are going to help Africa with $50 billion in the next 3 years. to help build infrastructure to foster Chinese Africa relationship.

Three years later Africa still cannot feed herself. There will be another begging conference that will go the same way next year. The year after and after that and after that one. Did I forget to say there was a conference last year. The year before that and the year before that one?

This is a very serious matter. The fact remains that galvanising Africans to get serious about their future is the most difficult job out there. How do you convince people to invest in their own future? It is a task I think about daily. It is not that we don't have the resources but it is always wasted right from the individuals to the governmental level.


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