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Sustained dev’t alone can’t get Africa out of poverty – Lord Boateng

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  • The Mask 9 years ago

    We have to stop using the word poor. We have to use more meaningful terms like in classifying economic status like upper class, upper middle class, lower middle class, and lower class. People in the middle class find life dif ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 9 years ago

    NDC MUST STAY AWAY FROM THE HERITAGE FUND!! 
    THAT MONEY CANT TURN THINGS AROUND, THE DAMAGE NDC HAS CAUSED IS TOO DEEP. WE HAVE A LITTLE OVER $100 MILLION IN THAT FUND. AN AMOUNT WHICH ONE NDC THIEF CAN BLOW WITHIN A WEEK, ...
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  • Komla Agbeshie (Ho) 9 years ago

    NDC you are too corrupt, From the president to the foot soldiers all are rot in corruption.

  • Yaw 9 years ago

    So what should be done...I didn't seem to get that side of things, Paul!

  • agyeiwaa 9 years ago

    Yes, Paul,it would cost less than $1000 to build one classroom block or KVIP in your father's village here in ghana, so stop the bluff and get down to contribute your widow;s mite. Of course, you can afford the cost of one bo ...
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  • SKILLO 9 years ago

    The guy just kept complaining without offering any meaningful solution or taking action himself to help solve his perceived problem.

  • DJ. DAABODAABO 9 years ago

    TALKING ABOUT AFRICAN ISSUES, IT HAD BEEN PROPHESIED ONE THE WORLD THOUGHT HE WAS A LUNATIC, ALSO PROPESIED BY OLD MUSCIAN A.K.A CULTURE TNAT AFRICA IS BETTER PLACE TO LIVE , SO WHY AND WHY AFRICA WILL BE THE POOOREST PLACE ...
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  • still rastafari 9 years ago

    politicians & chiefs killing GH & Africa

  • still rastafari 9 years ago

    Sir, leadership is a problem in Africa

  • R. Bleboo 9 years ago

    Africa’s challenge is the lark of good governance with corruption, greed etc at it’s core, this is what Africa needs to deal, also realize it is the richest continent.

  • Osei Yao 9 years ago

    LORD BOATENG MUST KNOW THAT THE THE SAME PREJUDICE THAT HELD HIM DOWN IS WEIGHING MORE HEAVILY ON AFRICA. AFRICANS MUST CHANGE THEIR COLONIAL MENTALITY BEFORE THEY CAN TRUELY DEVELOP

  • Dr Robert Glah 9 years ago

    Not Sustained GDP but Inequality and Corruption in Africa are the causes of poverty in Africa.

    The class war generates inequality and corruption in Africa

    The Upper Class, the Middle Class, the Lower Class categories mu ...
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  • Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

    Did Ghana's elite class have to hear the same washed-up stale warnings from a Lord Boateng to know what has been obvious to even the blind in Africa for ages?
    Can Lord Boateng tell us how many Banking and financial instituti ...
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  • Jonas 9 years ago

    It is the peculiar MINDSET of BLACKMAN and not our universities.Send the BLACKMAN to university of HEAVEN and bring him back,he will still be the same.Only God knows why.

  • military man 9 years ago

    Thanks, Abeeku.

    I've been saying this about the Western world forever. They don't have the welfare of African nations at heart.

    How many times have we heard of the massive hidden wealth of all the rotten deposed leader ...
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  • OBINNA 9 years ago

    Please check the functions of Banking Institutions. Banks and Financial institutions are places for depositing and transacting finanancial affairs of depositors, not responsible for nor explaining how you got your money.

  • Kremekracker 9 years ago

    So what Is your prescription?

  • USMAN 9 years ago

    Our university graduates cannot think because they are useless.

  • Jojo 9 years ago

    IF SUSTAINED DEVELOPMENT CANNOT GET AFRICA OUT OF POVERTY,WHAT ARE THE THE ALTERNATIVES.

    THIS HE FAILED TO DRAW A CLEAR PICTURE ON THEM.

    THESE NEGATIVE PREACHINGS DO NOT MAKE A SENSE IN THE 21st CENTURY.

    FOR US TO B ...
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  • w3 9 years ago

    Zongo is in the mind. If our minds are pure our environment would be pure. With greed is good - self-centred political system and industries we remain impure in our minds. Therefore, our land is impure so also the trees and f ...
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