[ 2011-06-04 ]

UK think-tank slams failed policies in Africa
Accra, June 3, GNA – The Council for Afrika
International, a UK-based think-tank has observed
that evidence has shown that the catalogue of
strategies, policies and interventions applied by
African leaders since the declaration of political
independence had failed.

The group said the intervention had rather
inflicted havoc and genocide on the African
peoples and blighted the prospects of future
generations.

A statement issued by Dr Koku Adomdza, President
of the Council to commemorate Africa Liberation
Day, which fell on May 25, noted that ever since
the declarations of political independence, no
action has had any commensurate and
transformational impact on the lives of the
majority of Africans.

He said the economic crises facing Africa have
resulted in an unsustainable state of survivalist
emergency, requiring radical redress to prevent
the African Continent from being plunged into mass
societal unrests and quest for comprehensive
justice.

Dr Adomdza said: “In recognising the
undiminished significance, relevance and purpose
of Africa Liberation Day in 2011,” the Council
for Afrika International was drawing the attention
of Africans and Global Leadership to the extreme
conditions of poverty, injustice and other extreme
conditions Africans found themselves.

“Council for Afrika International therefore
makes an urgent call for a revolutionary approach
to facilitate the African Liberation Vision,
Mission and Project for the attainment of
comprehensive liberation, freedoms and justice for
Africans, Diaspora Africans and the African
Continent…”

He said it was only by tackling the root causes of
African economic stagnation with the same fierce
and ferocious resolve and force that was displayed
by the UN Security Council Resolutions to bombard
Libyan military installations that would
demonstrate the genuine commitment of the
international community to stem the problems
confronting Africa.

“Anything short of a concerted full frontal and
multi-pronged attack on the saboteurs of the
African Liberation Process, whoever they are,
wherever they may be, has the high probability of
un-alarmingly and inexorably tipping Africa over
the cliff-edge of existing economic instability
into unprecedented social and political
instability.”

Dr Adomdza said the Council had launched its
African Millennium Liberation and Prosperity
Goals, taking into consideration the UN'S
designation of 2011 as the Year for Africans and
Persons of African Ancestry.

He said the year also signalled the commencement
of the second decade of the 21st Century, as well
as nearly 50 years of the proclamation of Africa
Liberation Day in 1963 in Accra.

Source - GNA

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