Africa's Resource

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Topic: Africa’s resources

In order to permit to Africa to go on the path of a sustainable growth, a whole way of acting, behaving and thinking has to be changed. Powerful economies have the obligation to interfere so they can permit to this naturally rich continent to develop itself; African have to learn a lot from their neighbors. My status of being Moroccan living for the second year in a developed country and meeting students from all around the world offers me the occasion to have a critical opinion on two world’s that are not so far away one from the other, but neither so close because of the political, economic and cultural gap.

Firstly, the human resources have been a big dilemma for developing countries. In fact, there is a huge lack of education and training; it starts by the selection of its governors to the right to go to school. Africa is underdeveloped because of the fact that it didn’t go through an industrial revolution with the rest of the world due to imperialist colonization, corruption, and a general lack of necessary infrastructure and institutions, including a lack of economic opportunities, access to education, and adequate health care. How can countries be productive if there are no productive established institutions? Colonization has left important traces in people's mind; countries were directed on the wrong principle of holding power, a power that has been taken from them decades ago. Governors are having in mind that the more power and importance they have on their countries, the less accessible they will be. So they were obviously no time to think about the education of their population, the sustainability of the natural resources and at least the wellbeing of the citizens; disguised dictatorships were appearing and of course ways of pressure were not lacking. Persons with no high level of education can’t react against these facts; moreover, institutions founded by colonialists were based on a different education...