The Covid 19 has had a new reawakening in Africa. It has spurred a spirit of innovation in this great continent. For example, students at Kenyatta University in Kenya successfully made prototypes of ventilators, and hope to scale this to produce ventilators on a wide scale. In Ghana, masks, ventilators and other devices needed to fight Covid 19 are now being mass produced.
Even for the simplest of things such as a matchbox, we rely on China. Chinese goods have flooded our markets and rendered the African manufacturing sector as null and avoid. And yet everytime we purchase a commodity from China, we are exporting jobs to China.
Worse, we believe that anything that is foreign made is superior to our own. We must protect our nascent industries if we are to rise as a continent. Did you know that Google is banned in China. Instead, they use a local Chinese search engine, baidu.com. Did you also know that twitter is banned in China. Instead, they use a local Chinese micro blogging app, Weibo. This has improved the local technology scene in China, and now China is raring to go to the world.
Our leaders do not have a plan in place to make us a great economic power. We don't know what the conditions are for the loans they sign for. Perhaps, one of the conditions is that we allow the Chinese to flood the African markets. This must stop as a matter of urgency. Read More Articles. Click Here
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