Minister Fast Concludes Successful Trade Mission to Africa “Opening new markets to increase Canadian exports is key to our government’s focus on creating jobs, growth and long-term prosperity for all Canadians,” said Minister Fast. “That is why our trade missions focus on specific sectors where Canadian businesses have established expertise and where there is the greatest chance for success.
Africa
Minister Fast Leads Trade Mission to Africa
Africa is one of the fastest-growing economic regions in the world. According to the International Monetary Fund, five of the world’s 20 fastest-growing economies are in sub-Saharan Africa. Between 1995 and 2011, average annual GDP growth in sub-Saharan Africa was greater than 4.9 percent.
Integrating And Differentiating The Enlightenment Voices
Sutherland-Addy gives remarkable sense to the enlightenment undertaking, not necessarily because of her statues as a university don and her vast global reach, but, really, because of her advanced age. The importance of Sutherland-Addy’s age in the enlightenment crusade is that she has the settled mind to contemplate on the immense relevance of the Ghanaian culture to Ghanaians’ progress, for both psychological and material reasons.
Africa Struggles For “Democratic Deepening”
Democracy is rapidly breaking out across Africa, albeit in different tempos. But the real attempts to deepen democracy in Africa are a complicated enterprise. Whether in the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party or Ghana’s ruling National Democratic Party or Tanzania’s ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (Revolutionary State Party) or South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, Africa’s struggles for democratic deepening is seen not only in the public domain but more seriously in the internal corners of its vast political parties, where intense democratic growth is occurring.
Africa’s Inhibitive Values, International Ideals Collide
As Africa flowers and its traditional values play out naturally with international ideals, the ensuing schisms are helping to refine some toxic African values that have been entangling Africans’ wellbeing.
In The Face of Corruption, Ghana’s Ruling Party In Juju Apprehension
Almost ten months into the 2012 general election, Ghana’s ruling party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), appears to be in never-ending turmoil.
A World of Difference Universal Access and its Role in the Fight against HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The inequality between the resource rich and resource poor counties will continue to deepen as an estimated 22.5 million people are living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan African with an incident rate of five million per year.
Harmonizing the Unrealistic Education System
The long-running education crisis reveals that after years of tussles to construct education content that actually reflects its Ghanaian/African appendages in relation to global linkages, there are still worrying schisms within the education system that undermine Ghana’s core progress. The science sector of the education system is still feeble. Research and Development (R&D) is nothing to write home about.
Democracy or Prosperity, Which Comes First In Africa’s Bid for Prosperity
Despite its global hypothesis, in the African context, the democracy-or-prosperity arguments wheel around Africa’s largely enviably untapped wealth and the continent’s painful dark political history where totalitarianism of all brands had been the order of the day.
Traditional Deities Clash With Development Projects
In Ghana/Africa, some development projects could be difficult to discharge when it is entangled in rigid traditional beliefs. In some places, such as Kumasi, capital of the Asante Region and Ghana’s second largest city, traditional beliefs clash with development projects.