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what we have learned.
But anyway, we were there
at the university and you
got a certificate and you
come over here and you feel
you’ve learned something.
But sometimes we teach very
destructive things, and no
more important than when
we’re teaching people from
natural resources are harvested to play. It has a role as a raw developing countries. One
for foreign interests. material producer. of those very damaging
and destructive things is
The answer to the so-called We will not allow sub-Saharan the doctrine of comparative
poverty of Congo is the same Africa to escape that. We advantage. It’s a lie. From
answer to the so-called poverty do everything to keep Sub- beginning to end, it’s utter
of Africa. Congo, just like Saharan Africa where it is also crap.
Africa is not poor. She’s just impoverished. It’s absolutely
made poor. And that is a fact. vital for the prosperity of It has been decimated many
Even our local politicians have everyone else. So, let’s get times. But we keep it in every
mastered how to use poverty as clear about that. Okay. And curriculum. Why? Because
a tool for getting votes. this means all the economic it tells sub-Saharan African
structures, all the global countries that their destiny is
In a video lecture, Dr Howard institutions and the economics to produce raw materials. And
Nicholas, a Sri Lankan we teach, everyone is all if you produce raw materials,
economist and social scientist, designed to keep Africa exactly you get rich, just like we are in
Senior Lecturer in Economics where it is. the West. You see, this is the
at the International Institute game we’re playing. And just
of Social Studies (ISS) of And whether it is Europe or for you to be totally confused,
the Erasmus University of U.S. or now China, it’s always we normally build models with
Rotterdam, made this statement the same. We need Africa to be mathematical models, so you
about poverty in Africa. impoverished because we need really have no idea what we’re
those raw materials and we talking about.
“Africa, historically, sub- need them cheap. You see, we
Saharan Africa has been teach, in many cases, garbage But it seems all very scientific.
fundamental to the global and it doesn’t hurt anyone. A Then we have the modern
prosperity of the advanced lot of this garbage is blah, blah, version of this because it’s all a
countries, and Africa has a role blah, blah. And we don’t know failure. We know it’s a failure.
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