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Development is a specific transformation, from a population composed largely of impoverished subsistence farmers to one composed largely of a relatively prosperous urban bourgeoisie. There is no other model; a development strategy that operates on th...
Africa’s problem is its population growth rate – there’s more
Africa’s problem is its population growth rate – there’s moreThank you to the correspondents who have seen that the population explosion is the fundamental problem in Africa. This phrase used to be used a lot, with accompanying fretting – he...
Africa’s problem is its population growth rate
Yes indeed it is. However, this is not a problem that will be solved by encouraging smaller families through the use of contraceptives, for it is a cultural phenomenon. But as I said in Saving Africa! – ‘This is not culture as ‘the shared bel...
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Wishing everyone a more prosperous and successful New year...
And Another Thing…
The trouble with the discovery that a culture is that society’s survival mechanism is that it not only explains many events, it makes it embarrassingly simply to decide which are going to be the winners and which the losers. If much of sub-Saharan ...
And Another Thing…
The understanding of the fundamental fact – that Africa’s present development failure is because its survival mechanism has not evolved to cope with the changed global environment – throws light on a number of mysteries about mankind’s behavi...


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