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Binta Terrier

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Dec 24, 2013, 2:40:19 PM12/24/13
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In case you missed this one. Worth looking into. Billions of US$ are often raised in the name of Africa but to what usage?  This time around, with all the highly educated diaspora around the world, we should be able to do something? No?

Binta

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From: MELVIN FOOTE
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Subject: Africa: Africa in 2014: African voices in the development debate -- MDG for Africa or Consultants?
To: Amina Salum Ali
 FYI


What was the outcome of the MDG?

"  ..One of the chief criticisms of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – the United Nations (UN) anti-poverty targets that include reducing child mortality by two-thirds and halving the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 per day by 2015 – was that they were drawn up without consulting African countries." 

How about involving the Diaspora? There are many competent Africans in the diaspora who could help/advise on the feasibility of some of the "experts" recommendations and the budget.  Else, all the funds will again be spent on recruiting/financing consultants, and in more meetings and more reports.
Binta
 

Africa in 2014: African voices in the development debate

  

Maternal and child mortality are two targets of the MDGs. Photo©Jan GRARUP/LAIF-REA

Maternal and child mortality are two targets of the MDGs. Photo©Jan GRARUP/LAIF-REA

One of the chief criticisms of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – the United Nations (UN) anti-poverty targets that include reducing child mortality by two-thirds and halving the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 per day by 2015 – was that they were drawn up without consulting African countries.

 As the 2015 deadline fast approaches and discussions have turned to the post-MDG agenda, African countries are working hard to ensure their voices are heard this time.

The January 2014 African Union (AU) summit should allow leaders to reach an agreement on a common position, which will determine the stance African countries will take in the final post-MDG negotiations due to begin in earnest at the UN in early 2015.

The adoption of the common position will be the culmination of more than two years of consultations led by the AU, the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank and the UN Development Programme.

Discussions are now centred around five priority areas: structural economic transformation and inclusive growth; science, technology and innovation; people-centred development; environmental sustainability and natural disaster management; and financing and partnerships.

The AU appointed Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as head of a 10-member committee to oversee the process.

It must whittle down the list to one or two key issues before presenting its decision to leaders in January.

Johnson Sirleaf has suggested that peace and security should take precedence.

Carlos Lopes, the executive secretary of UNECA, argues there can be no development without economic transformation.

Employment creation and social protection are essential, according to Lazarous Kapambwe, special adviser to the chair of the AU Commission.

"There are no-brainers which are common to every country," says Aida Opoku-Mensah, Lopes's special adviser on the post-2015 agenda.

"But when it comes to certain areas like economic transformation, for instance, there is a mindset: those countries that are doing well, that have experienced economic growth, are bolder. Those that aren't really doing so well are the ones that are holding back."

However, Opoku-Mensah insists negotiators are building a consensus around the importance of inclusive economic growth.

This is mirrored at the international level, according to Arancha González, executive director of the International Trade Centre.

She says two issues need further discussion: the role of trade – in particular value addition – and the role of small and medium-sized enterprises.

"We have to make sure that the [economic] growth dimension doesn't come as an afterthought," she says.

There is concern that the 2012 Rio+20 conference's list of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has complicated the post-2015 debate.

Gunilla Carlsson, a member of UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon's high-level post-2015 panel, tells The Africa Report that there is a danger that the two tracks – the SDGs and the post-2015 development agenda – could harm each other.

"We have to have an integrated agenda," she stresses.


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Otitigbe Obadiah Oghoerore Alegbe (The Okatakyie Otitigbe of Africa)

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Dec 24, 2013, 9:11:04 PM12/24/13
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Binta.
Many of us had offered many solutions. I myself projected solution to energy, drinking water, even up to the kind of nuclear technology that Africa needs and how tog et it. The truth if Africans in the place of decision accept only what a white man present. I remember a French young man who told me in Buenos Aires to give him one of my Project for France to present it. I told him that if my people do not believe me, let them remain so.
I told the Former Foreign Minister during his visit to Buenos Aires some years ago that "when you sit in a buka and NEPA takes light, remember me. The way Nigeria goes about energy, there will be no electricity in Nigeria for 500 years. The tragedy is that Nigerians do not even know the quantity of energy needed nor how to come by the solution". We have debated it in this forum many times and all i received was insults. Many Diasporas remain silent because they cannot stand insult. So i began distance education for the youths in my Ethnic nation free of charge and in the due course I will chip in how they can on local bases provide solution based on their local idiosyncrasy. You can see one of my web pages www.oviri.com.ar , there is a sector called African Project where based on my experience at home and in Liberian jungle, I profess activating the economy of the villagers through micro-industries. The copy of the project was presented to the Nigerian Embassy in Buenos Aires. Yet the Senate energy committee many time came to Argentina in one case invited by a woman who posed as expert in Energy, they visited the white people in Argentina and Chile and they went home after spending on tourism. No people who do not trust their own can ever achieve progress.
Otitigbe.
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PLAD

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So many of us are discouraged and that is not good. Nobody can solve Africa's problems but Africans themselves.

Perhaps, a new approach is what is needed. Which one? That is something the Diaspora needs to seriously think about.

Venting our frustration by insulting each other when we disagree has not changed anything. We should therefore, seriously engage in a concrete paradigm shift about Africa.

First, let's start by agreeing to disagree without insulting someone when we don't like what the other person is saying. If need be, we communicate via Skype to clear any miss-understanding.

Let's remember that communication via email can easily be miss-interpreted therefore, one should always seek clarification before "jumping the gun" and hitting the other person.

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones.
Binta
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Subject: Re: [africanworldforum] Fwd: Africa: Africa in 2014: African voices in the development debate -- MDG for Africa or Consultants?
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Akinwale Ojomo

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Dec 26, 2013, 11:10:40 AM12/26/13
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My sister Binta,
With the audience here, your kind words will not cut it!

Tough words will bring change in the African Diaspora circle.

You talk about been discouraged..NO...like I said you are been kind with your words. it's FRUSTRATION.
Imagine or check this out, how can a grown man just because the other party have a different opinion reign curses! This is NOT normal.

First,we are in denial about the reality in Africa.
Even though we spend 2-4 weeks visit to Africa and run back, we have no understanding and changing dynamics back home.

So the online has been a way to vent and "curse" out folks, complain about what the leaders are not doing right!  The same time can be spent to help a student with Maths homework in Nairobi or Mentor a student in Lagos.

We have technology, we know technology but have continuously misuse it.

If you sum the time spent online by Diaspora you will be amazed that is equivalent to teaching 100 students in high school across Africa.

Solution: 
African Diaspora should suck it up and start on fresh slate in 2014

Here is an experiment....all work in progress...again, it's work in progress since I will expect a thrash of this program by someone in this list serve.

Not that am afraid of "feedback" but critique done with constructive intent bring progress.

Diaspora 100 by Diaspora Innovation Institute
Every year, the goal is to relocate 100 Diaspora to any African county.

http://diaspora-dialogue.com/programs/

How? Do it your own way.We are just creating a template..

Check the attached, it's been experimented in Nigeria, if makes sense or not, get back to me it can be duplicated..

It's time for ANSWERS.

Identify, Organize, Partner and Activate.

We are partnering with Homecoming Revolution to host an event in March 15,2014 London, UK

http://homecomingrevolution.com/

Be patient to watch the video

Happy new year ahead.


Regards,

Akinwale Roy Ojomo
Chief Engagement Officer
Diaspora Innovation Consortium
Diaspora Innovation Institute 
234-808-515-1778 Nigeria 
234-803-456-5038 Nigeria

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Please note that due to the holiday and travel, email and skype is the best way to reach me.

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Yaya Fanusie

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Binta,
I first met you 2yrs ago at PLAD event for Mali. I continue to advise you to focus on what you are doing and you will get the planned results. It is not easy to discover the VITAL FEW in the African Community. 
My experience in the region forces me to conclude that there to many "FLAKES" here.  Also the Culture of the Area is backward. So you end up spinning your wheels or just treading water.
Yaya Fanusie


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ishola williams

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Oh YF!,Words of wisdom.I am an old  soldier who is not brave enough but hide behind you to say I agree with you.I respect her passion not her action.iw
 



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Binta,
I first met you 2yrs ago at PLAD event for Mali. I continue to advise you to focus on what you are doing and you will get the planned results. It is not easy to discover the VITAL FEW in the African Community. 
My experience in the region forces me to conclude that there to many "FLAKES" here.  Also the Culture of the Area is backward. So you end up spinning your wheels or just treading water.
Yaya Fanusie
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So many of us are discouraged and that is not good. Nobody can solve Africa's problems but Africans themselves.

Perhaps, a new approach is what is needed. Which one? That is something the Diaspora needs to seriously think about.

Venting our frustration by insulting each other when we disagree has not changed anything. We should therefore, seriously engage in a concrete paradigm shift about Africa.

First, let's start by agreeing to disagree without insulting someone when we don't like what the other person is saying. If need be, we communicate via Skype to clear any miss-understanding.

Let's remember that communication via email can easily be miss-interpreted therefore, one should always seek clarification before "jumping the gun" and hitting the other person.

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones.
Binta
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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 23:11:04 -0300
Subject: Re: [africanworldforum] Fwd: Africa: Africa in 2014: African voices in the development debate -- MDG for Africa or Consultants?

Binta.
Many of us had offered many solutions. I myself projected solution to energy, drinking water, even up to the kind of nuclear technology that Africa needs and how tog et it. The truth if Africans in the place of decision accept only what a white man present. I remember a French young man who told me in Buenos Aires to give him one of my Project for France to present it. I told him that if my people do not believe me, let them remain so.
I told the Former Foreign Minister during his visit to Buenos Aires some years ago that "when you sit in a buka and NEPA takes light, remember me. The way Nigeria goes about energy, there will be no electricity in Nigeria for 500 years. The tragedy is that Nigerians do not even know the quantity of energy needed nor how to come by the solution". We have debated it in this forum many times and all i received was insults. Many Diasporas remain silent because they cannot stand insult. So i began distance education for the youths in my Ethnic nation free of charge and in the due course I will chip in how they can on local bases provide solution based on their local idiosyncrasy. You can see one of my web pages http://www.oviri.com.ar/ , there is a sector called African Project where based on my experience at home and in Liberian jungle, I profess activating the economy of the villagers through micro-industries. The copy of the project was presented to the Nigerian Embassy in Buenos Aires. Yet the Senate energy committee many time came to Argentina in one case invited by a woman who posed as expert in Energy, they visited the white people in Argentina and Chile and they went home after spending on tourism. No people who do not trust their own can ever achieve progress.
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Yaya Fanusie

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Ishola,
Thank you for the compliment. You have a lot of Talkers among the Educated African Elites. They do not have a learning Mindset(mentality). They tend to think small. They have nil knowledge of Geopolitics, GeoEcnomics and no sense of NATIONALISM.  Many to me, appeared to be born with Inferiority Complex-Low Self-Esteem. Others acquired it through group identification. They like to make declarative statements about things they have little knowledge about. 
Yaya Fanusie


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I wish u a happy christmas and a glorious new year sir.
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