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Sunday, October 15, 2006
Where is Africa Going Wrong?-- Out-of-the-Box Thinking in an In-the-Box World (by Philip Emeagwali)
I once believed that capital was another word for money, the accumulated wealth of a country or its people. Surely, I thought, wealth is determined by the money or property in one’s possession. Then I saw a Deutsche Bank advertisement in the Wall Street Journal that proclaimed: “Ideas are capital. The rest is just money.”
I was struck by the simplicity of such an eloquent and forceful idea. I started imagining what such power meant for
If ideas are capital, why is
( to read the rest of this thought provoking article, please follow the link below...)
http://emeagwali.com/speeches/africa/where-is-africa-going-wrong.pdf