Africa was smelting iron when Europe did not even have the faintest
idea of what a furnace is. Cambridge, Oxford, La Sorbonne, Harvard or
Yale, had not even been imagined when Africa's universities at
Timbuktu were already teaching maths, science, astrology and astronomy.
However, Europe's crude intervention in Africa blunted the continent's march to progress and we can only imagine to what heights Africa might have ascended, had it been left in peace to pursue its own destiny.
Africans must beware and rid themselves of Western hypocrisy and double standards. We need to stop being copycats and develop our own economic and political ideology as well as our own system of governance.
Kingsley Basuglo
Accra, Ghana
However, Europe's crude intervention in Africa blunted the continent's march to progress and we can only imagine to what heights Africa might have ascended, had it been left in peace to pursue its own destiny.
Africans must beware and rid themselves of Western hypocrisy and double standards. We need to stop being copycats and develop our own economic and political ideology as well as our own system of governance.
Kingsley Basuglo
Accra, Ghana
