"They stole our ideas and turned them into their own".......This touched me to the bone marrow. In Nigeria, we have the Ajokuta Steel Company capable of manufacturing cars, but yet its self-inficted moribund state won't allow it do so. Today, Nigeria is the biggest market for Mercedes Benz, Toyota, BMW, etc. in Africa, but yet these brands do not even have assembling plants in Nigeria not to talk of manufacturing plants. Today, oversea medical tourism has become a symbol of status in Nigeria, not because Nigerian trained doctors a quack, but because even when billions of naira are budgeted for the healthcare centre located at the official residence of our number one citizen, the latter still seeks for medical help abroad at any slightest illness. Little wonder William Shakespeare opined " If correction lies in the hands that have committed wrong, to whom shall we complain? Nobody!" Millions of dollars are spent anually by our state and federal governments to sponsor numerous Nigerians in diverse scientific and technological programmes in various prestigious universities abroad, but what happens at last? What stops us from stealing these ideas from them just as the Asians did? It is my utmost belief that poverty is not a product of lack of money, but a product of lack of ideas mixed with mental myopia. We must rise up and do something because something can be done!
RE: Africa Wake Up!