Presentation of Fixing Africa book and movement

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Presentation of Fixing Africa book and movement
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Fixing Africa is based on three facts

• All 53 African countries are struggling. The
  denial must end so the recovery can start.
• Individually African men and women have shown
  that they can perform at a global level in any
  field, anytime and anywhere.
• New ideas and bold actions are required to
  translate individual achievements into collective
  progress.

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Who benefits from the existence of weak countries
in Africa?

• The leaders and their entourage.
• A few businessmen who benefit from the absence
  of rules.
• The management of international aid
  organizations and large NGOs who receive generous
  salaries without much performance accountability.

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Who pays the bill?

• African populations, the youth in particular,
  who in their vast majority obtain only poverty
  and injustice.
• The tax payers of developed countries who are
  increasingly asked to contribute.

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Why is it time to act?

• New challenges will appear in the 21th century
  that will completely overwhelm weak countries
  and their outdated leadership.
• African Union summits are paralyzed by a futile
  debate every six months between the proponents
  of an immediate establishment of the United
  States of Africa (led by the Libyan leader
  Gaddafi) and those who favor a more gradual and
  largely cosmetic integration process (led by
  South Africa).
• Most African countries have had 50 years to
  show their viability as stand-alone sovereign
  nations. The results are more worthy of a low
  profile than massive celebrations.

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What are the political objectives?

• Truly sovereign Super States, built and led by
  Africans for the security and prosperity of
  African populations.
• The integration of weak and poorly governed
  states into viable federal entities.
• The end of the illusion of sovereignty (red
  carpet sovereignty) where its all form and no
  substance, the real decisions being taken in
  Washington, Brussels or Paris.

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What are the socio-economic objectives?

• Build Super States with internal markets having
  critical mass and capable of attaining global
  leadership positions in several strategic
  categories.
• Provide better understanding and a new image to
  the rest of the world, who largely view Africa
  as one poor and desperate country.
• Offer African youth a vision giving them the
  hope of achieving developed world standards of
  living in their lifetime and without leaving
  their country of birth.

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How to achieve the best chances of success by
2030?

• By creating 4 Super States in Africa around 4
  anchor countries who have enough economic power
  and population size NIGERIA, EGYPT, KENYA and
  SOUTH AFRICA (the 4th Super State is renamed
  KONGO because from a marketing point of view, you
  cannot create a brand with a generic name like
  South Africa).
• By using the power of modern communications
  (Internet and mobile telephony) to build an
  active membership base in all 53 African
  countries, as well as in other countries with a
  large presence of the diaspora. This collective
  intelligence, wisely managed, will generate more
  results than any group of experts in the world.

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Why this initiative deserves your support?

• It is really time to expand the debate beyond
  the usual suspects (World Bank/IMF, African
  Union, UN, global NGOs, a few academics).
  Sincere people from the aid and development
  communities will surely welcome constructive new
  inputs.
• The current system doesnt give any roadmap or
  calendar for getting Africa out of the vicious
  circle of debt and international aid.
• African leaders appear addicted to the current
  international aid system. Their newfound
  enthusiasm for China is further proof of that.
  With all due respect to our leaders, it brings to
  mind the image of an addict who is happy to have
  found a new, more flexible drug dealer.

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How can you help at this stage?

• By sending this presentation and/or the e-book
  (available for free download at fixingafrica.com)
  to your friends and to your key contacts media,
  forward-thinking political and business leaders,
  artists and creative people...
• By 31st December 2009, we aim to reach 1
  million readers for the book and at least 1,000
  active members in each of the 53 African
  countries as well as other countries with a large
  presence of the diaspora.
•  With thanks,
• Tidjani Jeff Tall
• jeff_at_fixingafrica.com
• www.fixingafrica.com