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Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2014
A real pleasure and enlightenment to read. The author's prose
flows easily, making the book a real page turner. I come out of
the reading with an exasperation that the people of Africa do not
have anything like a sufficiently creative and forceful leadership
with a moral sense of their responsibility to advantage their own people.
Stupidity and cupidity!
While China is investing tremendous amounts of money in African
countries, they are basically bullying and tricking the local people
with the connivance of the local leaders, treating the former as children.
It is still another case of the rape of Africa.
I just finished reading Re-imagining India by the McKinsey Company.
It is not a case there of another country coming in to rape them,
but of endemic corruption, lack of useful goals and a vastly diffuse government
which keeps impoverished the main masses of people.
I am struck by the enormous richness of resources in the Indian and African nations,
but disastrously few strong-enough, ethical leaders to leaven the lives of their
people with the richness of their nations' great natural resources.
It is bad living for most of the people in all of those countries now.
It is hard to imagine how awful it will be in 50 years or so when the
populations have grown greatly and the resources have been
depleted. Very sad. But the book is a "must-read."
flows easily, making the book a real page turner. I come out of
the reading with an exasperation that the people of Africa do not
have anything like a sufficiently creative and forceful leadership
with a moral sense of their responsibility to advantage their own people.
Stupidity and cupidity!
While China is investing tremendous amounts of money in African
countries, they are basically bullying and tricking the local people
with the connivance of the local leaders, treating the former as children.
It is still another case of the rape of Africa.
I just finished reading Re-imagining India by the McKinsey Company.
It is not a case there of another country coming in to rape them,
but of endemic corruption, lack of useful goals and a vastly diffuse government
which keeps impoverished the main masses of people.
I am struck by the enormous richness of resources in the Indian and African nations,
but disastrously few strong-enough, ethical leaders to leaven the lives of their
people with the richness of their nations' great natural resources.
It is bad living for most of the people in all of those countries now.
It is hard to imagine how awful it will be in 50 years or so when the
populations have grown greatly and the resources have been
depleted. Very sad. But the book is a "must-read."
