Re: AYF-News> Africans can solve their problems

[Solomon Asare <solomonasare@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,
do we really want to solve our problems? Unfortunately
I don't get that feeling. I think our leaders want the
world bank, imf, the colonialist etc., to solve our
problems for us. 

Just an example:
When I started secondary education in Koforidua,
Ghana; in 1975, we were having severe water shortages
despite being a few tens of kilometers from one of the
greatest man made lakes the world over. What is
worrying is a quarter of a century later this regional
capital is still beset with this problem whilst the
water from the lake drains into the sea.

Our political leaders have been globe trotting seeking
aid, grants and loans to fix these problems. Couldn't
we have dug channels over 27 years? Fabricated and
laid Concrete Pipes, install pumps, or done whatever
needed to be done?

I dug my first well in my village when I was in the
middle school, about 12 years old then. It later
became big enough to serve the whole village during
the dry seasons. A few years later the World Vision
(an international NGO) built a concrete well a few
meters from it; not the government, not the local
authority.

I think once every year all our political leaders
should be hauled to Sudan and Egypt to tour the sites
of the ancient civilizations to see how far advanced
our ancestors were compared to us.

Our greatest problem is not the injustices which is
being, and were perpetrated against us years ago, but
our unwillingness, failure or refusal to help
ourselves.

Best Wishes to All of U.
Long Live Africa, We shall overcome.

Solomon Asare. 

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