Is Africa always doomed to economic dependence and external limits?
Kwesi: Africa has enormous potential for development, it has 60 per cent of the World’s resources including gold, diamond, crude oil, iron, rivers, forests and gas. The only obstacle to Africa’s development is the fact that it exists on the periphery of the World Capitalist system and has been subjected to exploitation and oppression for centuries. Africa will be on the path to social progress, greater democracy and peace when it rids itself of western interference. The Congo may not have been in a state of anarchy if the Congolese nationalist leader and duly elected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba had not been murdered in a western intelligence conspiracy. The political, economic and social situation in Ghana would have been completely different if the Central Intelligence Agency of the USA had not sponsored the overthrow of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the most popular African leader in history. The current economic chaos on the continent is the direct result of Western intervention. Africa will
