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Can Africa Ever Be The Best Continent on Earth?

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Comment: THEY ARE QUITE DIFFERENT

Author:
Dr. Bob Johnson
Date:
2011-08-09 13:24:24
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ENSLAVEMENT AND AMPUTATION


Marcus, the two restrictions are different. One is temporary (enslavement), the other is permanent (amputation). A temporary setback SHOULD NOT stop us (Africans) from attaining what God has planned for us, by endowing us with so much human and natural riches. I happen to have been associated with many high institutions in several developed countries, and the brightest students I ever met were Africans. I happen to have travelled widely (at the risk of disclosing my identity); and after all those rounds, realize how beautiful and blessed Africa is, and it's immense potential. We have had just had bad leaders: we have let people with NO DRIVING LICENSE drive our development bus into the ditch. The sad thing is that we don't even know what is going on, so we may not be able to fix it.

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08-09 01:00
 
 
 
AFROPESSIM:ISM: GHANA 1957; BRIT 1055 Consider all the depredations of slavery, coloniaism, neocolonialism, globalization that Africa has gone through. This would help you not to juxtapose Ghana that is barely 60 years old with Britian that has existed since 1066

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Akadu Mensema
08-09 01:00
 
 
 
 
AFRICA IS THE BEST Our age and traumatic experiences should not predispose us to underdevelopment. We can learn quickly from other nations, and with their help (aid), we can develop in leaps and bounds. Other countries have had worse experien

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Dr. Bob Johnson
08-09 06:51
 
 
 
 
 
REDUCTIONIST AFROPESSIMISM If someone cuts off your legs and asks you to run a 100-meter race with them what would be obvious results? You limp toward the finish line! That is my point!

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Akadu Mensema
08-09 07:23
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE PROMISED LAND My sister, it's not that dramatic. I don't believe that the effect of slavery, neocolonialism etc on development in Africa, is analogous to someone cutting off your legs and engaging you in a race. The latter is too extreme

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Dr. Bob Johnson
08-09 07:40
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
RETHINK YOUR ANALOGY! You have a fine mind! But even in real life, when athletes accidentally fall down, not pushed down, they either fail to complete the race or come last!

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Akadu Mensema
08-09 08:47
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
IT'S A MARATHON, NOT 100 METERS Akadu, Consider the economic development race a marathon, in which you can fall, get-up, and still win the race. African can become the most developed continent if we work at it. The most intelligent people I have ever met h

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Dr. Bob Johnson
08-09 13:38
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE SOLUTION IS UNITY THINK OF AN AFRICAN SOCCER TEAM MADE UP OF PLAYERS FROM GHANA, IVORY COAST, TOGO AND NIGERIA. HOW POWERFUL THAT WOULD BE ! THIS IS A SYMBOLISM OF WHAT WE CAN DO UNITED. POWER THAT WOULD BLOW THE MIND OF THE WORLD. WE HAVE

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AFRICABI
08-09 21:59
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ENSLAVEMENT AND AMPUTATION Dr. Johnson, enslavement and amputation of one's leg are both restrictive of one's movements. You certainly wouldn't tolerate nor cherish any of them, would you?

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MARCUS AMPADU
08-09 10:44
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THEY ARE QUITE DIFFERENT
Dr. Bob Johnson
08-09 13:24
 
 
 
 
 
 
Re: REDUCTIONIST AFROPESSIMISM AFRICA WAS THE BEST; AND STILL THE BEST AND WILL BE EVEN BETTER1

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adu@
08-09 10:01
 
 
 
 
You cant blame Colonialism You cannot blame colonialism for all africas problems! look at South Africa, during apartheid no countries other than israel supported them yet they were the most powerful country on the continent, now look at it, its the cor

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Andrew Saxe-Coburg
10-08 13:41
 
 
 
NO WAY, BRO. UNTIL THE CONTINENT IS BACK UNDER COLONIAL RULE

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ANOKYE
08-09 02:18
 
 
 
PARADISE ON EARTH Sure we can and it's definately not far off.It's not going to be a stroll-down-the-beach though,more of a rough-terrain up-hill climb. There is going to be a lot of bruises,broken bones,twisted ankles,cuts all over our fac

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JOOJO WILSON.
08-09 03:30
 
 
 
Re: Can Africa Ever Be The Best Continent on Earth One shouldn't underestimate the cruel contact with the europeans Africans went through and is still enduring.You mentioned hundred years of western education and aid,wondering why progress is still slow.The western education

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Son of Africa
08-09 03:39
 
 
 
DO WE HAVE IMAGINATION AT ALL? Let's agree for the moment with Albert Einstein that "imagination is more important than knowledge." It's an incontrovertible fact that since World War II, Africans have become very knowledgeable. But have shown and continue

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MARCUS AMPADU
08-09 04:14
 
 
 
 
Re: DO WE HAVE IMAGINATION AT ALL? Marcus, let us not only imagine unity, let us unite as one continent! That is the only way we can develop and tackle the manifold problems we face. We have all the resources we need, we have the intellect, so we only ne

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Sankofa
08-09 19:47
 
 
 
 
 
Re: DO WE HAVE IMAGINATION AT ALL? I whole-heartedly agree that Africa must unite. I used the word imagination in the context of visualization. Our leaders need to envision a united Africa, get an image of a unified Africa strong, vibrant and prosperous.

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MARCUS AMPADU
08-09 20:43
 
 
 
 
Re: DO WE HAVE IMAGINATION AT ALL? Change and adaptation are key to African rise Africa,however, continue to be a very conservative society, happy to hold on to medieval beliefs and an aversion to proven science. If you eat potatoes then you must find out how/

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FoxBat
08-09 21:11
 
 
 
THE BEST CORRUPTION PLACE ON EARTH HOW CAN AFRICA BE WITH THESE CORRUPT LEADERS

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BABA
08-09 05:19
 
 
 
WE ARE NOT CAPABLE OF MANAGING We are not capable of managing our own affairs in the midst of vast resources........

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ZION A.AYARIGA
08-09 07:20
 
 
 
 
Can Africa Ever Be The Best Continent on As God asked Issiah, CAN THESES DRY BONES COME BACK TO LIFE ? All my contribution lies on the word of God. ONLY GOD KNOWS.

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Concerned Ghanaman
08-09 08:25
 
 
 
 
minus Euro tendencies Even considering the twin towers of self-repression: Superstition & Tribalism I believe that Africa would, minus Euro tendencies, be advanced far beyond what it is today.

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Lance Watkins
09-10 18:53
 
 
 
u getting mad? when my cousin took my brother to the oracle to be killed, killed my dad and mom, took my elder brother who is the care taker to court,organized the whole town against the descendants of my dad, how can Africa be the best ear

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hallucinations
08-09 09:54
 
 
 
WE CAN BE THE STRONGEST NATION ON EARHT We are almost there!!! I think the time has come for us to be the strongest country in the world. We Africans have to unite first and consider the problems in any African country as ours. Take Somalia for instance, the wester

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Gidiglo Saba Africa
08-09 10:31
 
 
 
yes if ,,,,. yes we can.if 1.we can get out of all those slave mentality 2.change our political behaviour,not to suport a party be´cos of tribe 3.change our educational system from all these kind of beurocratic mentality to skillfull edu

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johnny(us)
08-09 16:45
 
 
 
Re: Can Africa Ever Be The Best Continent on Earth In fact you are lunatic very big idiotic human being triplet useless stupid writer to title ur article like that!!!!!

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JOJOE BROWN
08-09 17:31
 
 
 
Re: Can Africa Ever Be The Best Continent on Earth Africa is the most richest continent on earth.No Continent on earth can match the Mineral resource of Africa.Africa is poor today because Africa leaders are corrupt,Stupid,and greedy.Africa leaders are not honest to their Peo

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Mohammed Ibrahim.
08-09 17:56
 
 
 
INSTEAD OF CONTIBUTION, WE COTRADICT This is a good point that one raise, but we the Africans always try to contradict it. Please enough of all this none sense. The writer is raising a good point, instead of sitting down and think of what he is saying, some of

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shamu
08-09 21:21