tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47441964881964845002024-03-13T10:20:26.828-07:00AFRICA BUILDERSWho are they ...What are they doing?Africa Buildershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193947177179503346noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744196488196484500.post-4991486424123183592012-07-25T14:52:00.002-07:002012-07-25T15:14:33.866-07:00Olympics GAmes 2012: A chance for AFRICA ?When this great event is there everyne is asking how much Medals will be win by China, United States, France, Great Britain and so on....Never by Africa.<br />
I Hope this game will be another moment for the sons of the continnent to show our strenght. I strongly hope we will do our best. E ven if Africa is not of top of medals rank, we expect from all these men and women to make their brother all across the continent to be proud of them. In a spirit of RESPECT- BROTHERHOOD and FAIRPLAY. GOOD LUCK TO ALL ATHELETE<br />
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I am running this Africa Builders Project for some years now. i want to gtake the occasion of these game to go a step forward. since the launching of the project, it is difficult to run out activities. The London 2012 olympics games give the opportuny for our teams to call out for donations in order to collect some funds . With that money, it will become easy to promote our concept by organising and support some activities that we think important for the development of the country.<br />
From today to the end of the month of August, AFRICA BUILDERS is launching an operation to raise funds named: OLYMPICS GAMES : DAYS OF CELEBRATION DAYS OF DONATION.<br />
African or not, find yourself free to support the opération. Donate and your donation will help in education, water or food sipply across AFRICA. Use this email for donations onMONEYBOOKERS (africabuilders@gmail.com) or use the next link to donate <a href="http://afrikabuilders.blogspot.com/p/support-arica-builders-here.html">http://afrikabuilders.blogspot.com/p/support-arica-builders-here.html</a><br />Africa Buildershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193947177179503346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744196488196484500.post-67485921202055115652011-08-26T05:21:00.000-07:002011-08-26T05:24:08.431-07:00Hunger in the Horn of Afrika: 350 millions dollars from AU. A Step<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGJWVHN2R6un_NmgXk90iSxax_xC0qUNbGudLDwwI1DalPjsY585gvTbeHI-NsH1JRV_6tVXDJBc_vsFQwLud5ZU_2w7Usf1rGUbIIcnzKKcc5IMcSg5Y8Bowt6d0drijXq5En6RGhwXJE/s1600/one.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="37" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGJWVHN2R6un_NmgXk90iSxax_xC0qUNbGudLDwwI1DalPjsY585gvTbeHI-NsH1JRV_6tVXDJBc_vsFQwLud5ZU_2w7Usf1rGUbIIcnzKKcc5IMcSg5Y8Bowt6d0drijXq5En6RGhwXJE/s400/one.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yesterday 25 august 2011 at addis abeba took place a summit to find solutions for the hunger crisis in the horn of Africa. we were waiting kind of action. People were asking theirselves when a combine action of the states of the continent ?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The solutions for the moment is most a financial one. For the cause, 350 millions dollars will be disburse by the continent to help people in Est of Africa. 300 millions will come from the African Development BAnk, and the other 50 millions will come from the states.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is true that it is not enough. For some participants at the summit, this confrence must has been historic , but they were disapointed by the low amount mostly from the states.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is true. but it is something. What we are asking our leaders is to continue this kind of actions in others domains. They have to take the leadership on Africaproblems, not react when it is too late.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The conference was a step, an example to follow in any situations. Hope they will.</span>Africa Buildershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193947177179503346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744196488196484500.post-44181236098275137862011-08-19T05:39:00.000-07:002011-08-19T06:30:11.851-07:00Ways of empowering Youth in Africa..<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT4ch_I_NRpqYK4TKf73KysalaTL6CzHn7FQaugj19hUVgFxCivezpYUIIKTau9hlLYTjc9khp9ib6eWMmqvZXWnsl1BAcnonmqpqV1FuohL4qfELZzpfjkGu7htgMzb8ukiEo4ee2F2Tp/s1600/abuja.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT4ch_I_NRpqYK4TKf73KysalaTL6CzHn7FQaugj19hUVgFxCivezpYUIIKTau9hlLYTjc9khp9ib6eWMmqvZXWnsl1BAcnonmqpqV1FuohL4qfELZzpfjkGu7htgMzb8ukiEo4ee2F2Tp/s200/abuja.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From 26 to 28 july, the African youth had its first General Assembly in ABUJA in Nigeria.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a great occasion for young african's to be together and bring out what they think can help to reinforce youth capacities across the continent.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the three days meeting a Youth declaration was set up (<a href="http://www.unhabitat.org/downloads/docs/10122_1_594034.pdf">see here</a>). The main wish for the youth is to see the creation of a UN agency for the Youth.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This agency could help to improve what is done on the field till now. It is also important to mention which actions for the youth can help empower the youth and allow a sustainable development.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In fact Youth are asking for Justice, Dignity and Real Empowerment. For this to be done they think African Goverments needs to work in order to allow:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Bring out appropriate policies to give lands to youngs in order to improve the production..</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- allow the Youth Participation in decision making;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- fight against unemployment and illeteracy of Youth;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- take in consideration the basic needs of the youth like livelihoods, education , and health;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- support innovation and enterpreneurship of the youth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Bring a technical support to the youth to permit the building of sustainable agendas </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- organise the youth movement across africa.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All these will contribute to sustainable developpment in Africa.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But Ways of emporwering Africa Youth will not be sufficient. It is first important for the Youth to:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- establish themselves</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- take their destiny in their hands to achieve their dreams</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Keep their optimism;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- be the messengers of peace, embrace diversity and support the Goverment to achieve sustainable development.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope this message will be heard by all youngs of the continent, that with the end of this first asssembly some actions will be done on the field. that those actions will consider youth as partners.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We at Africa builders are working for long since 2000 to help The youth. Now we will continue our mission by setting up a project for a real empowerment of the youth.</span><br />
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</span>Africa Buildershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193947177179503346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744196488196484500.post-45972298207511807372011-05-31T09:58:00.000-07:002011-05-31T09:58:14.234-07:00Can Panafricanism help to build Afrika ?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our fellow fathers in their times thought the possibility for Africa to be a great part of the world were to stay united.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But people like NKWAMEH NKRUMAH weren't not understand in their fight and the results is what we are leaving today: a continent of divisions and pains.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">An institution like African Union (AU) is trying to to bring Africans together to talk with one voices on many important subject like, globalism, security, terrorism, growth, Development...with very poor results, caused of misunderstanding. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While some political men like QADDAFI are calling for the unity of Africa through the <b>UNITED STATES OF AFRICA,</b> others think is not the moment, that Africa is not ready for that. But the question remain:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For MICHEL NKOUNOU, the answer is yes. He is lecturer in Yaounde II University in SOA. He has just publish a book on on Panafricanism in Africa tittled : <i><b>PANIFRICANIS: From the Crisis to the rebirth.</b></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dr NKOUNOU think since Africa is moving as we know, problems had not being solve. 50 Years afters the independence process Africa remain the continent of political divisions, wars, diseases, corruption, problem's that can't help the continent in his development. that's why he think we Africans have nothing to celebrate 50years after.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then , his book on Panafricanism from crisis to rebirth is a Project. a project to see how Panafricanism can help to build the continent. the book demonstrate , which process can be use to united Africans countries? Which nature can take this model and how it will help in Africa development?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When answering those Questions, the lecturer proposed that a referendum must be held across africa to ask Africans if they want to be united, if they want to live in one country?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">considering the Nature, the form that this panifricanism will have, the Doctor think it must be <b>Federalism. </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This federalism will help Africa better solve his ressources problems for example. With federalism, countries with many natural resources can help those with less.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Federalism can also give one voices to the whole continent to have one say on important subjects.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Personally, i think Panafricanism can help Africa. But my concern is to know if we are ready for that. i think no. It must be a process. we need to act deeply to bring Africans together on this concept. and the best way for is the building of strong subregional areas.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In those Areas (CEDEAO, CEMAC, SADEC...), they have to teach Africans how to live together, to act and to expect together. Some regions are doing a lot on this way. But more remain to be done.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When people across Africa will be able to accept the lead of one person, when they will b ready to obey the same rules, when it will be able for them to move without any restrictions, to work where ever they want, to feel themselves like in one country at that time we could seriously think to build the United States of Africa.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for that Political larders have a lot to do.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dr NKOUNOU i<i>n PANAFRICANISM from the crisis to the rebirth</i> thought for the project to succeed, only black Africans Countries must be involve in the process, that Magrebhian countries due to a different culture, and history may be exclude.</span><br />
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</span>Africa Buildershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193947177179503346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744196488196484500.post-52694654048438637382011-05-27T08:27:00.000-07:002011-05-27T08:27:10.889-07:00Africa Builders: Beyond the TV Spots<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is interesting to see how African country are trying to make theirselves well known internationally. You just have to sit in front of your TV to watch CNN, Euronews or Africa24 and you will see those well-done spots on africa countries promoting Tourism, Democraty, Health, Governance or Youth employment in Africa.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think Yes! Around the world people don't really know Africa. Oh Yes! They Know the wild nature and the traditional life but many europeans or Americans and others don't care about the people daily life in Africa and what is done in this continent for growth and developement .</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Therefore, using TV to show what is done in Africa is good for the image of those african countries like Cameroon, Tchad, Gabon...and can help them to find partners that need to invest in their lands.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We need to do more for Governance, democraty and growth become a reality in Africa. Our countries need to fight against corruption, if they want to reach better results on education, health and in others important domains.. I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">t is also important to reach a good level of security across Africa.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But what we are witnessing today in Africa is very far from that.... African's countries remain on top of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">most corrupt countries despites the strategies put on place to fight the phenomena.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The democracy process still have a long time to be fair, the business environment in many areas demand a lot of work and all those wars make the continent </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> a bad destination for investment and tourism.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">However step after step Africa is moving, something is done and it important to make it known even by TV's spots. Meanwhile we have to keep working day after day to improve what have been done. We have to behave in such a way that Good governance, health for all, Security,Youth Employment, become more effective.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For that everyone know what remain to be done at his level. yes everyone Know !</span>Africa Buildershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193947177179503346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744196488196484500.post-68906035987172913202011-03-18T09:39:00.000-07:002011-03-22T08:15:31.593-07:002011: Africa need Democratic leaders, populations and countries...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhUW1sxRLqzGM5-4HrXvPc3FE8fVWMuUnA6AdeReVyTLLpfhkGmq1bFxY_9J0rRvD5dzbyNz8hZ1bdDUFi2eRaXcV72QOjFyyOq0WG51u5Lj3nm1ddCuvFs6jzy2zvXk2lLvgWynXVr9X2/s1600/612962_cote-d-ivoire-elections-gbagbo-ouattara.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhUW1sxRLqzGM5-4HrXvPc3FE8fVWMuUnA6AdeReVyTLLpfhkGmq1bFxY_9J0rRvD5dzbyNz8hZ1bdDUFi2eRaXcV72QOjFyyOq0WG51u5Lj3nm1ddCuvFs6jzy2zvXk2lLvgWynXVr9X2/s200/612962_cote-d-ivoire-elections-gbagbo-ouattara.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were so happy at the end of the debate between OUATTARA and GBAGBO in Ivoiry coast the november 25th 2010. It was the first time to saw kind of meeting in the continent.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People follow the whole debate on TV proud to see two political men exchanging their ideas at that level. We thought a new day has come in Africa. That, it was time!!! Democratic time for the continent.We hope it was the example that others politicians will follow across the continent.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By following the Debate, Africans show their stong will to live another life, their need to have new political leaders and their whish to see those mens build a stong institutions in Africa, and therefore their hope to see those new politicians contribute in the development and the growth of their countries.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But today with what we are witnessing in Ivoiry Coast , Africans are so disapointed. They are understandanting that november 25th 2010 was a joke. That they still need those new mens in politics, that their wills are not taking in consideration, and that more need to be done...and i am afrraid they are right.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Among those countries are: Sudan, centrafrican Republic, Uganda, Camerooon, burkina-faso,benin, Cap-vert, Niger, Chad,Djibouti, Nigeria, Democratic republic of Congo,Egypt,Gabon,Madagascar, Zimbawe,zambia,mauritania</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is true that those events can meet some changes in their dates or occurency. But it not the important matter.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">what it is important, is to have democratics elections: It is what Africans needs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For 2011 we need countries that will show others, politicians who will demonstrate that it is possible. That it is not a fatality for our continent to always have post elections violences or wars. Africans want that... AFRICA, OUR CONTINENT NEED THAT</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the end of this year we will hav to says thanks for to those politicians and countries for the good politics behaviour. And i think it will be the time to set up a prize for that. I hope this idea will have some supporters.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By now some elections have already took place:the balance sheet is not too bad.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We didn't understand many trouble in Uganda. And Elections were good organise in Niger and during the first part of the elections in Benin despite some difficulties.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many other countries remains and they are big ones: the behaviour of their political boards and leaders will be important for the continent. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the end of 2011 we will be able to say if Africa is on the right way or if we are really bad.</span><br />
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</span>Africa Buildershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193947177179503346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744196488196484500.post-29901396942177105492011-03-08T02:56:00.000-08:002011-03-08T02:56:43.045-08:00Africa Development: How the new strategy of the world Bank will help build the continent?<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjconIFEkNwPlTsXBt4OH9ilrE1l0X_OYWpphUgJ009OlqOctBhCknHapHZkm8ZgX8QTkH9ShtW0zIVEVXaI6IR_akjY9WdbfG-BOl6iAL1Tef4qwr2ZuvDKnbn7GMTed3b5uJwzaeAAWaS/s1600/DSC01338.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjconIFEkNwPlTsXBt4OH9ilrE1l0X_OYWpphUgJ009OlqOctBhCknHapHZkm8ZgX8QTkH9ShtW0zIVEVXaI6IR_akjY9WdbfG-BOl6iAL1Tef4qwr2ZuvDKnbn7GMTed3b5uJwzaeAAWaS/s320/DSC01338.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everyone know about the famous structural adjustment Program put on place by the world bank in the year 1980 in Africa. This programs were to help Africans countries to come through developement. But it wasn't the case.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the populations, Consequences were many on social life. At least everyone agree that those programms were a bad strategy for the developement of the continen</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">t. A few countries benefit from those programms put on place whithout taking in consideration the africans needs.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today the world bank is launching a new strategy for the developement of the continent. Why the strategy is different? what it is about? and how africans can benefit from this new strategy?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u>What the strategy is different?</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u><br />
</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is important to notice that this new strategy is the result of a long plan consultation in Africa and worldwide.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the worldBank, it was important to ask people how the development of africa can be done.. which areas the policies of the world bank need to be emphasies.. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
</span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This appear in the words of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Obiageli Ezekwesili, the Vice President of the World Bank for Africa Region</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>"... We therefore used the opportunity of our new Africa Strategy to listen, learn and define how we could better support the continent's aspiration as it maintains the momentum of economic reforms over the next decade,”</i> She said. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i remember i myself that i fill one of their forms. Then this new strategy of the worldbank today is not the product of worldbank experts only but is made with the participations of all.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More the strategy is a 10 years plan after which Africans economies are suppose to take off.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The strategy will put Africans citizens in the middle of the strategy, by allowing more dialogue since they demand more participation in the development process of the continent.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At least the strategy is also different because the worldbank will act more like a partner for the developement of the continent. A partner to work with all those involv in developpement through the continent.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Partner to support what is need to be done by the States, what is plan by the States in Africa, and not only give money for finance.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What the strategy it is about? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even today not it is not easy to understand what the old strategy of the Bank, mainly those structural adjustment Programmm were about.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the new 10 years action </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">plan </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of the bank, 3 mains areas will be on top.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 1. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Competitiveness and employment:</b><b style="font-size: 10pt;"> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">i</span>n this domain, the Bank want to strenghned the working capacities in the continent, create more jobs for thousands of youngs coming from shools every year and make business easier. In this line, investment and infrastructure will need to follow in order to permit this objectives.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 2. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Vulnerability and resilience : </b> Poverty in Africa is more emphasise by the existence of many deseases. The Worldbank for the 10 upcoming years will focus on health, climate change and strenghning goverments capacities for more equity in sharing national ressources.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> 3. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Governance and public sector capacity : </b>The fight against corruption in Africa is more the fight against the active corruption: putting in place strategies to fight corruption and put in jail those who are responsibles of weak management of public funds.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But nothing is done to fight the QUIET CORRUPTION. the new strategy of the bank aim to gives africans the information on what they should expect from their goverments.By doing this the bank will help those goverments to improve their capacities and systems to deliver basic services and manage accounts.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <b><u>How Africans can benefit from the strategy</u> ?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><u><b><br />
</b></u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">After several years of public Aid and thousands of billions the african continent is always at the same place. If those financial resources has been well uses the economies of the continent would have take off.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">That is why all need to be done by African and the Bank this time, to help africa benefit from the strategy. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">For that africans Goverment need to understand this new departure for their economies, sensitize their citizens on it.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The worldbaank need to be very careful in monitoring the implementation of the strategy. It have to emphasis in his partnership with the civil society and other partners than the Goverment, since the strategy is the will of the citizens of the continent.</span></div>Africa Buildershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193947177179503346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744196488196484500.post-60385546940808035232011-02-15T10:24:00.000-08:002011-02-15T10:24:53.618-08:00The Strenght of AfricaWhen talking about Africa, everyone agree that that part of world meet many problems: wars, deseases, poor education...<br />
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At the end of the 50th years after independance the balanceshiet of the continent remains negatives. It seems likes nothing can be done to save the continent.<br />
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But what people around the earth don't know even africa themselves is that this continenet has many capacities, more than continent that have seen their development nowadays.<br />
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It is that message that our fathers like LUMUMBA, NKRUMAH and now MANDELA tried to tell us: we need to build our continent.<br />
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It is time to do it know. We need to show another image of the world as southafrica did in 2010 with the footballworlcup.<br />
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We need to call women , men , boys and girls, Companies and institutions to act for the Africa Renewal:<br />
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It is the reason why this site has been set up: who they are those trying to make something for Africa....? what are they doing...?<br />
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The Presentation the <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/makem/strength-of-africa">STRENGHT of Africa</a> will help everyone to join the movement and have some informations on the continent. Hope you will enjoy and share with others.Africa Buildershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193947177179503346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744196488196484500.post-49805301705666131482010-12-08T08:59:00.000-08:002010-12-08T08:59:47.479-08:00Drawing Competition open: A sign for Africa Development<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The blog AFRICA BUILDERS is launching a drawing competition for a logo.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">During the 50th anniversary of the independance of 17 Africans country, the main subject was the Development of the continent. Althought many seminars were held, and many logos created for the occasion, it was no sign of unity. Each country try to celebrate the event by itself and inviting others. i didn't see a common actity , an activity organise by all these countries to call together all the son's of Africa.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There were many logos during the cinquantenaires each country with his own. But not a unique logo for the occasion for the whole africa. That lack of unity is not good for continent.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that's why i launch this competition for me to have a logo, a sign , an image that can indicate what we are calling for, what we are working for ...what we are cryng for: a strong, unite and develop Africa.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This logo will be the sign for Africa Growth.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It will have to be as a reminder for all Africans that it's time,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> when thinking at it or seing it each one will know it is time. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Time for Africa to go forward, Time for Africans to work, Time for our country and continent to success.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This image will also be the logo of this blog and further for the website.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><u>Conditions</u></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- Anyone can participate;</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- Image of the logo will be forwarded by internet at : <b>africabuilders@gmail.com</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>- </b>Deadline : <b>January 31st 2011</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><u>Prize</u></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After the deadline the received logo/image will be displayed for 2 weeks on the site and the Facebook group for members to vote for the best one.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The winner, after this process will receive a price of at least <b>100 000 FCFA/ from the owner of the blog AFRICA BUILDERS.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><u>P.S: After the payment the logo will remain the property of the blog.</u></i></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Thanks for your participation</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is time for the continent to move forward. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Are you an individuals, society or institutions?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Are you doing something special for the continent? for your contry? something that can help your coutry or the continent to growth and go ahead? Something can have a deep impact on the populations across your coutry or Africa?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Are you in the Education - Economic - humanitarian - Culture - Sports domains?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">do you know someone or something like that who can be pick as an example in the continent ? Of course you do. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Let us know. let other know. It is time to show what is done for Africa's Growth.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Just send a small text, with a photo and a link if possible,and we will display him/it here.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is your place ...it is our place... Come and see... Another Continent...Another Africa is possible.</span>Africa Buildershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193947177179503346noreply@blogger.com0