FIVE FINGERS

FIVE FINGERS offer practical solutions to end Debt Slavery and Basket Case disorder in Africa. FIVE FINGERS cautions Africans from confusing Investment for Trade, Debt for Solutions or Donations for Philanthropy. In other words, Investment is for the investor, Debt is for the creditor and Donation is for the Trojan Horse - of many varieties. It investigates the etiology and offers liberating prescriptions for the perennial diagnosis in the abundance that's Africa, known as scarcity or simply Povertitis. Most of what Africa consumes is not made in Africa or by Africans using African raw materials. The book is a call the African Citizen and Leader to make in Africa, by Africans, using African raw materials, for Africans and Export. The current focus on mega infrastructural development in ports and railways are facilitating more imports which inadvertently is exacerbating poverty, unemployment and trade-deficit in Africa and which is not sustainable. Expectedly, African Central Banks and indeed African countries are continually tethered to massive debt transfusions but the profuse bleeding is left unattended - on the advise of debt merchants aka 'developmental partners.' As debt is deficient to maintain minimally needed circulatory volume, to prevent an economic cardiac shock, Africa goes around in the world with a golden begging bowl to make ends meet. The Debtor or more precisely the Debt Slave is also a Basket Case. FIVE FINGERS starts with analyzing leadership culture and etiology as the abating tool to our current sorry state. It however focuses on solutions inside and outside of policy and the responsibility of citizens even where African leadership is challenged or compromised. Nonetheless, all stakeholders are sufficiently informed for a concerted effort to regain our dignity and allocate Africa resources to its rightful owner, Africans. It's all in the FIVE FINGERS of our hand. The African Hand!