Jobs: a passport to independence

More than anything else, what Africa and the African people need to escape the abyss of poverty and the vicissitudes of Mother Nature is jobs. This need is fundamental because it is the passport to personal independence and to the freedom to pursue life, liberty, and prosperity, and all that it entails, including such basic essentials as clean water, food, health, and education. A job provides an opportunity to live a meaningful life and to contribute to society.

Africa needs the kinds of jobs that are created primarily by foreign and local investors and entrepreneurs -- jobs that will provide its people with incomes that allow them to produce, to consume, and to educate and care for their children.

Via Emeka Okafor, who also has a video of Monique giving a talk at Google on "Learning to Love Africa: My Story from Africa to Harvard Business School and Back." See her book by the same title.

In that same Case Foundation issue see "Africa: No Lost Cause" by Chris Johns, editor-in-chief of National Geographic magazine, who also recommends two books: "The Tree Where Man Was Born" by Peter Matthiessen and No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu.

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