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Africa Great Beyond Aid Sparknotes

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The title of the book “How to make Africa Great beyond Aid” has long been my passion to write on. The nitty-gritty of this book is to pinpoint the greatest problems the continent of Africa had been through and still going through even after most of her countries gained independence from the Colonial Masters decades ago ranging from the socio-political and economic sphere of the continent. As a young & vibrant son of Africa who loves and valued the notion of Pan-Africanism deep in my heart, I deemed it expedient to air out the grievances & the tears of Africans especially her younger generation to my prospective readers and more significantly, for this book to server as an inspiration as well as, to sensitise the younger generation …show more content…

While the last half elaborates on what ought to be done by 21st Century Africans collectively to be great. I begin the book with the sufferings Africans went through for my prospective readers and the whole world to know so that, this kind of evil brutality shall never repeat itself anywhere just like the Jews came out to express their pains before the world after the brutality of the holocaust and said “Never …show more content…

Africa had been and is still a centre of attraction for the Globe. The importance of Africa is beyond human comprehension coupled with her abundance natural resources of which, every Kings and Queens of the world would have love to have them at their disposal. Africa is the second largest continent of the world, second to Asia, bounded by the Mediterrean Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea & Atlantic Ocean. Africa’s total land area is estimate to be 11,724.000 Square miles (30,365,000 square km), and measures about 5,000 miles (8,000km) from south to North & about 4,600 miles (7,400km) from West to East. But despite Africa’s huge size and lots of her potentials, it’s still regarded as the poorest of all the continents of the world. One might ask himself/herself why Africa with all her potential has and still been underdeveloped since the time of colonization to Post-colonial

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