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I was very touched,elated and proud of the involvement
of South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria and the trend-setting
vocalization by other African leaders in the Liberian
situation.
The fact that Kofour and Mbeki went to Liberia to help
that arrogant S.O.B. save face was in and of itself an
unprecedented shift in the inter-African political
discourse.
There is a movement taking root in Afrca among our
leaders that is changing the business-as-usual
attitude that had dogged African politics for so long.
What happens anywhere on our continent is the business
of every African.
This emerging doctrine will take over the distructive
business-as- usual attitude which has until now
enabled African leaders to abuse their people in ways
that are unthinkable.
This is also indicative of the gradual movement
towards a United Africa. One of Africa's major problem
is the shortage of professional. If I remember
correctly, Africa spends nearly four billion dollars a
year on expatriates from Europe and the U.S.
Meanwhile, there are now well over one hundred
thousand African professionals in the U.S. alone.and
this includes a Nigerian scienctist that N.A.S.A.
cannot do without right now, to doctors,lawyers,
professors,accountants,scienctists,,researchers,and
computer wizards(KEL thats for you) among many other
professions. We need to make sacrifices and go home.
We cannot have the best education then remain here or
in Europe and expect significant and rapid changes to
occure back home. It is not gonna happen. We have to
go make it happen.



--- Aggo Akyea <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> OBASANJO'S PERSONAL TOUCH STRENGTHENS NIGERIA'S
> INTERNATIONAL ROLE
>
>
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/aug2003-daily/14-08-2003/world/w5.htm
>
> MONROVIA: When President Charles Taylor handed over
> power to his successor at a ceremony in Monrovia,
> one key player in the moves to resolve Liberia's
> recent crisis was not there, but he was far from
> forgotten.
>
> One by one the invited guests -- presidents Thabo
> Mbeki of South Africa, Joachim Chissano of
> Mozambique and John Kufuor of Ghana -- paid tribute
> to Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo's "decisive
> role" in the peace process.
>
> Taylor himself, who left for Nigeria shortly after
> the ceremony Monday to take up Obasanjo's offer of
> political asylum, declared: "President Obasanjo has
> proven that an Africa wanting to be strong, can be
> strong.
>
> "Nigeria continues to not just the powerhouse of
> West Africa, but the powerhouse of Africa ... when I
> 'phone President Mbeki he tells me to call his big
> brother Olusegun," he joked, to good-natured
> applause.
>
> Meanwhile a battalion of Nigerian troops is still
> the only international military presence on the
> ground in Monrovia, and might yet prove to be the
> thin line between peace and humanitarian disaster.
>
> Obasanjo's role in deploying peacekeepers and in
> engineering Taylor's departure has also won
> high-level backing beyond the shores of Africa.
>
> On a recent visit to Abuja, US President George W.
> Bush thanked Obasanjo "for his leadership on the
> issue" and on Monday name-checked his Nigerian
> counterpart once again as he welcomed Taylor's
> departure.
>
> Nigeria's diplomatic coup in Liberia was his second
> triumph on the world stage in two months. Last month
> the same presidential plane flew Obasanjo and
> another embattled president, Fradique de Menezes,
> back to Sao Tome, where he was re-installed as
> head-of-state after a short-lived military coup on
> the oil rich archipelago.
>
> Nigeria, which is developing a potentially hugely
> lucrative oil exploration zone jointly with its tiny
> island neighbour, had taken a lead role in a broad
> coalition of international powers in pressuring the
> putschists to back down. More than anything else,
> this double victory has established Africa's most
> populous country as one of its most influential. It
> has been a spectacular return to grace for a nation
> that had been a pariah state under brutal military
> rule for three-quarters of its 43 years of
> independence, and is best known abroad for
> fraudsters and religious strife.
>
>
>
>
> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
>
> "Instead of studying how to make it worth men's
> while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to
> avoid the necessity of selling them."
>
> WALDEN
> by Henry David Thoreau – 1854
>
>
>
>


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