Hekima Review No. 20 (Dec 1998)

It may be paradoxical, but the stark reality shows us that the poor increase the wealth of the rich! Like other continents, Africa has her share of headaches. As the darkness of the 20th-century steps aside for the dawn of the third millennium, two of the most cancerous cogs in the wheel of progress for our continent, are the twin developmentally retarding and dangerously crippling issues: brain drain and capital flight. For a continent still struggling to stand on her badly battered feet, in order to lessen the enormous burdens placed on the bent backs of her four hundred million plus citizens, Africa can ill afford to loose her highly trained labour force, as well as her own considerable capital resources.