The Development Conundrum Anagram of Africa

GhanaWeb: "'Are you there... Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars' Jean Genet describes Africa in; The Blacks. I am so fascinated by the writings of Walter Rodney and begin to wonder if our policy makers even know where we came from and the development needs of the continent. It is important for the African policy makers come up with policies that aim at benefiting Africans and not other consideration, just as Botswana did remarkably under former president Sir Quett Ketumile Joni Masire. African countries are unjustifiably referred to as developing, in other words, third world countries. Going by the western definition of the status of these countries, they are underdeveloped and less intelligent. “Underdevelopment makes sense only as a means of comparing levels of development. It is very much tied to the fact that human social development has been uneven and from a strictly economic viewpoint some human group have advanced further by producing more and becoming wealthier.” Walter Rodney"