Saturday, November 11, 2006


What is Africa lacking? Moral leaders with a clear concept about positive development!

Here are some amazing eye-opening facts-thanks to Dr.Steve Van Horn:

· The total income of all 55 African countries is a little more than that of Belgium.
· Africa is the world's most indebted and aid-dependent region.
· 17% of the African GNP goes towards debt repayment.
· The whole continent has fewer paved roads than Poland alone.
· Africa is poorer than it was 40 years ago.
· African economies must grow at 5% annually just to maintain the current level of poverty.
· Africa looses 20,000 skilled professionals a year due to economic hardship.
· Africa has less than 10% of the world's population but 70% of the world's total HIV infection.
· 1999 world financial reports indicate that 39% of all African GNP is taken and deposited in foreign banks by selfish and corrupt leaders.
· Nigeria has more than 110 trillion standard cubic feet of gas reserve and about 10 trillion cubic feet of oil reserve, but also has an external debt of $50 billion.
· Nigeria alone produces 50% of the United States' petroleum needs.
· The continent has one of the largest water and river systems in the world, yet it suffers from drought and insufficient hydro electricity.
· A recent computer analysis of the economy of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) concluded that no one could survive there.
· By 1958, the DRC was producing 50% of the world's uranium, 75% of the world's cobalt, 70% of he world's industrial diamonds, and it was the world's largest producer of rubber. But the average income per capita in the DRC is less than 1% of that in the United States.
· With good leadership, and good resource management the DRC could feed up to 2/3 of Africa all by itself.

Friends:
With all of this potential, Africa has the world's poorest of the poor. What is Africa lacking? Why can't the situation change in such a "Christianized" populace? Who are the Christians in Africa and what are they doing?

2 comments:

REV. FREDRICK OSOLO ANDREA said...

I am glad to visit your blog. It is very interesting to read your articles. The time has come for Africans to be used to bring change by carrying the very precence of God. Poverty is not an excuse not do the will of God. We can do all things through Christ who give us strength.
Fredrick Osolo

REV. FREDRICK OSOLO ANDREA said...

I am glad to visit your blog. It is very interesting to read your articles. The time has come for Africans to be used to bring change by carrying the very precence of God. Poverty is not an excuse not do the will of God. We can do all things through Christ who give us strength.
Fredrick Osolo