In the Heat of Africa’s Underdevelopment

The ever growing disparity in living standards between the
developed and developing polities constitutes a striking feature of life
on Planet Earth. This publication is an attempt to highlight some of
the factors dividing the worlds apart. A new North-South synergy is
needed in creating a balanced world at peace with itself. As long as
more than half-the population of the world go to bed hungry there can be
no peace. A sting rich world and a sting poor world cannot cohabit
peacefully. How to build a more equitable and balanced world is the
challenge facing us. We need to embrace and practice our long-aged
concepts of ‘ubuntu’, ‘harambee’ and ‘batho pele’ among others in
creating, and consolidating the new world order. Africa is
underdeveloped. It requires serious structural modification in our
current mindset, thinking and actions which calls for total involvement
of every citizen. The ideas advanced in this book are strategies and
pathways for dealing with the problems of poverty, corruption, the
distribution of power, deterrence, good governance, health, human
capacity building and the challenge of bringing about a systemic
structural-functional governance construct for the African continent.