A simulated interview with Dr. Nkrumah on today's situation

[RWalker]

The AU has raised the failure of the west to help them meet Africa's MDG targets for reducing poverty fractionally by 2015 as an crucial impediment to our progress, what can we do to end poverty in Africa beyond mere diversification of trade and aid partners?

"To start with, for the first time in human history the potential material resources of the world are so great that there is no need for there to be rich and poor. It is only the organisation to deploy these potential resources that is lacking. Effective world pressure can force such a redeployment, but world pressure is not exercised by appeals, however eloquent, or by arguments, however convincing. It is only achieved by deeds. It is necessary to secure a world realignment so that those who are at the moment the helpless victims of a system will be able in the future to exert a counter pressure. Such counter pressures do not lead to war. On the contrary, it is often their absence which constitutes the threat to peace.

I see. People across the globe are disappointed that the Sept 2001 WCAR declarations has been ignored by these same western and allied elements...what should we be doing to properly understand the racism, gender oppression, national and other forms of repression so prevalent around the globe?


"...analyse neo-colonialism, first, by examining the state of the African continent and showing how neo-colonialism at the moment keeps it artificially poor...show how in practice African Unity, which in itself can only be established by the defeat of neo-colonialism, could immensely raise African living standards. From this beginning... examine neo-colonialism generally, first historically and then by a consideration of the great international monopolies whose continued stranglehold on the neo-colonial sectors of the world ensures the continuation of the system."

I see your point Dr. Nkrumah, if we just pursued our policies diligently and courageously we can resolve all these matters and more...