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Poverty...Read the full article.

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Thanks again Churchill for this poetic denuciation on poverty.

This man-made problem remains a big terror especially on our continent Africa, which accounts for 34 out of 50 underdeveloped nations in the world, with average GNI of 200 Dollars.
It's worth stating that Corruption and Poverty have become synonymous with the present day Africa, with the former giving rise to the latter. And with poverty-promoting leaders like Robert Mugabe still in power, one cannot but keep wondering when shall we ever get to El-dorado, if at all ,Africans still nurture such hopes.

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Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Food for thought!!

Is Corruption more Deadly than Terrorism?
Or is Corruption another form of Terrorism?

How do You Win the Hearts and Minds?
Hearts and minds is changing the laws that empowers the people to be informed. (FOI bill etc)
Or can it be done only by force?

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Maybe, it is a good poem, but I am just wandering why Mbeki must feature in it! To please the white world? To my mind the greatest disaster of the Black race is that our educated individuals always scramble for the attention of the white world. We allow the white world to condition our perception about issues that affect us directly! We all moan about poverty, Aids and corruption, because white opinion leaders say so. We have never sought to sit with ourselves to identify our problems and ways to address them, but have always relied on what western media and opinion leaders claim are our problems.
My simple advise to this poet and our thoroughly colonised educated elites who see our problems through the eyes of self righteous and sometimes dubious white men is, go home and do proper studies about our failures!
Poverty which is the main concern of this poet is not as much our problem as primitiveness!! We are naturally still better endowed than the most successful western societies, but due to our primitiveness have been unable to sort ourselves out. If (God forbid), London is destroyed for instance, the economy of the UK would crumble to the extent that majority of the people would starve, but if on the other hand all the major cities of Nigeria are destroyed, over 80 percent of Nigerians would still be able to stand. Failure to understand the fact that we must succeed as a group and not as individuals as we continue to emphasise, is the main point of our primitiveness!! During and immediately after the 2nd world war, Italians, Britons and many other Europeans experienced the kind of economic hardship that most Black societies have never had(research about banana rationing in Britain), but because they are organised and civilised, they rose up again. UK probably three times less arable land than Nigeria, but it can feed not just Nigeria, but the whole Black race. We all know that Israel is a tiny piece of hard to till land(probably less than many states in Nigeria), yet that country can feed the whole Black race also! Lets think again!!!

John Iteshi