If we Africans don’t use Five Fingers to liberate Africa from Debt Slavery and Basket Case, our grand children will have to be freedom fighters at best or mere slaves at worst. We can change it.
We must change it!
“Those whose livelihood is pegged on selling ducks’ shoes to walk on will never inspire ducks to fly. Africa should thus be informed to solve our problems as individual communities even where leadership is handicapped by the money minted from our lack of flying and the attending chaos”
Africa’s Beg-worthy Status Maintained by Dysfunctional Leadership
“Even though they are in Africa, South Africa and Egypt are favorites of multinationals to make products bound for COMESA, a country in Africa that you didn’t know existed. They are conduits for imports that hide their true origin or whose effect on most of African countries where they sell their products is similar if the products were made out of Africa.
The Basket has Become the Market
“Africa’s Economy is like a pumping heart with no way of bringing the blood from our legs back to itself for re-circulation. To merely survive it has to be attached to continuous debt transfusion and demeaning donations”
Importitis – Perpetuated by Blood Merchant & China’s Chains
About Five Fingers
FIVE FINGERS offer practical solutions to end Debt Slavery and Basket Case disorder in Africa. FIVE FINGERS cautions Africans from confusing Investment for Trade, Debt for Solutions or Donations for Philanthropy. In other words, Investment is for the investor, Debt is for the creditor and Donation is for the Trojan Horse – of many varieties.It investigates the etiology and offers liberating prescriptions for the perennial diagnosis in the abundance that’s Africa, known as scarcity or simply Povertitis.
Most of what Africa consumes is not made in Africa or by Africans using African raw materials. The book is a call the African Citizen and Leader to make in Africa, by Africans, using African raw materials, for Africans and Export.The current focus on mega infrastructural development in ports and railways are facilitating more imports which inadvertently is exacerbating poverty, unemployment and trade-deficit in Africa and is not sustainable.
Expectedly, African Central Banks and indeed African countries are continually tethered to massive debt transfusions but the profuse bleeding is left unattended – on the advise of debt merchants aka ‘developmental partners.’ As debt is deficient to maintain minimally needed circulatory volume, to prevent an economic cardiac shock, Africa go around in the world with a golden begging bowl to make ends meet. The Debtor or more precisely the Debt Slave is also a Basket Case.FIVE FINGERS starts with analyzing leadership culture and etiology as the abating tool to our current sorry state. It however focuses on solutions inside and outside of policy and the responsibility of citizens even where African leadership is challenged or compromised. Nonetheless, all stakeholders are sufficiently informed for a concerted effort to regain our dignity and allocate Africa resources to its rightful owner, Africans. It’s all in the FIVE FINGERS of our hand. The African Hand!
About the Author
Robert has extensive and diverse academic and professional background. His experiential journey spans Insurance, Banking, Logistics, Manufacturing, Retail, Media and Healthcare sectors in different capacities. He is also clinician who has practiced in critical-care settings in Medical and Surgical ICUs in the United States and Cardio-thoracic ICU which specialized in open-heart surgery at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California. He received his BSc. Nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and earned his MBA in Finance from California State University both in the U.S. This rich background and the clinical process of Assessment, Diagnosis, Intervention and Evaluation is a tool he consistently applies in the prescriptions he’s compiled into Dollar Altar, Five Fingers, Money Circles and President’s Advisor.