“With enormous electric power, we shall drain marshes and swamps, clear infested areas, feed the undernourished, and rid out people of parasites and diseases. It is within the possibilities of Science and Technology to make even the Sahara bloom into a vast field with verdant vegetation for agricultural and industrial development. We shall harness the media to lift our people from the dark recesses of illiteracy. A decade ago, these would have been visionary words, the fantasies of an idle dreamer. But this is the age in which Science has transcended the limits of the material world, and Technology has invaded the silences of nature….. The world is no longer moving through bush paths or on camels and donkeys. We cannot afford to pace our needs, our development, our security to the gait of camels and donkeys......This is because we have emerged in the age of science and technology in which poverty, ignorance and diseases are no longer the masters, but are the retreating foes of mankind.” (CPP founder and first President Dr Kwame Nkrumah, in 1963, at the OAU Conference at Addis Ababa) Ghanaian first president said and wanted to do this before his sudden over thrown. What are you impart are you creating today for our poor women and children... Let hear your thought https://facebook/HelpTheAfricanChild
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:34:15 +0000
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