Executive Chairperson of Black Women Organisation in South Africa, Madam Eugenia Kula-Ameyaw, has emphasised that the best way Africa can develop faster is to promote trade among African countries.
She explained that the African market was so large that if member countries could make arrangements at the highest level to trade among themselves in areas where individual countries have competitive advantage, African countries economies would expand and create resilient economic empires.
That, according to her, would offer jobs to the teeming African youth who are unemployed and chasing non-existent white collar jobs across the continent. Madam Kula-Ameyaw stated this at the Wealth Masters Group Summit on the theme, ‘Wealth creation Mindset, the Future of Africa and Entrepreneurship’ held in Accra at the weekend.
She noted that one major area that Africa has a big advantage was the agricultural sector because everyone depends on food to survive. For this to be successfully, she stressed the need for the African governments to take the sector seriously which was creating loads of jobs and revenue for Africa.
Madam Kula-Ameyaw further said that agriculture was not booming in Africa the way it was supposed to grow partly because everybody was migrating to the cities and leaving the vast lands in rural areas fallow. She said that this could be reversed if governments invest in infrastructure and support farmers in the rural areas to increase their yield. According to her, Africans have to support one vision for member countries to mutually benefit from the vision of various countries on the continent.
Additionally, she stressed the need for member countries for ideas sharing and contacts building for African countries to benefit. She noted Africa can make it if the right decisions were taken and the right things were done including the way one speaks and carries themselves and use the power of creativity in all spheres of human endeavour. She stressed that for Africa to succeed, the leaders and its entire people need to be honest and faithful which are principles which facilitate the wellbeing and development of mankind.
She said Africa needs to be opened to criticisms, adding that if something is not right it must be corrected and accepted to move people ahead in the right direction. She warned African leaders to avoid dictatorship and tolerate divergent views, saying that adhering to these principles would help facilitate the development of the continent. She said to create jobs “we have to change our mindset first and explore areas which are under-exploited such as mining, packaging and also people should market their potential and take opportunity of new ideas that are emerging.”
On his part, President of the Wealth Masters Group, Mr. Benjamin Acheampong, said Africans should think outside the box and stop looking for aids which cannot bequeathed to home grown ideas that can liberate Africa once and for all.
He said the black man was capable of managing and solving his own problems instead of the mindset that someone else should solve their problems.
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