World Trade Leader Optimistic on Africa's Prospects
The director-general of the World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, tells 'This is Africa' why he is optimistic about Africa's trade prospects, especially in agriculture.
Beth Njambi grows cassava and bananas to provide her family food year-round, standing in her maize field in Kakamega.
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Not until tyrants like President Paul Biya of Cameroun and Al-Bashir of Sudan are deposed, Africa can never progress. These dictators are greatest barrier to Regional trade. As Al-Bashir is imposing death penalty on traders across the S-Sudan borders, Paul Biya prohibits infrastructural development in S-West Cameroun to hinder trade with Nigeria. During Ahmadou Ahidjo's era Cameroun was the regional power in the UDEAC zone but old age and the blood of opposition politicians killed have damaged Paul Biya's brain and render him incapable of maintaining the leadership. Cameroun needs a Charismatic youth president to boost regional trade and creat job and wealth to the entire region
It seems as if we ride this train every single year. Someone somewhere decides that it is time to talk trade again. But do we ever get anywhere? Can we ever say we will achieve free trade with all the global protection? And no hope for fair trade either. It seems as if the dance is on again in 2008. More on this in my blog at http://angryafrican.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/here-we-go-again-lies-damn-lie s-and-world-trade-negotiations/