This is one of the problems that Africa has been facing and would continue to face unless there is a new direction and a new focus. The question has always been why the rat race? A continent full of opportunities, a continent that can give birth to new inventions and innovations is just aping whatever is spewed out in the West forgetting that the settings and needs are not the same.

Technology is good, but at what price? If Rome was not built in a day, I do not see Africa running where others walked - the advantage I see though is that they can adapted tested methodologies.

There is a strong link between technology and culture and the earlier Africa appreciate this fact the better. We need to sieve through and adopt what is good for our continent. There is no better time than now to trade resources with technologies, which means Africa must develop a very strong foreign policy spelling out what she needs in return for the resources been taken out of the continent.

Again, Africa should remember that today's technologies are built on some of the resources taken out of Africa, if the continent should be stupid enough to allow China, India, Japan and other countries scrambling for her resources to rape the continent's resources, the future is then questionable.