Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Africa's need for Electricity

I stopped short of pointing out some relevant issues. Here we go.





The West has a way of ganging up on any small fish (guppy) that tries to play in their league or compete against them, the guppy gets crushed.
Ghana can better serve herself by not selling aluminum as a piglet billet or ingot, but rather finished products. The West and for that matter China wants and needs Ghana’s aluminum, Ghana should set up plants to make aluminum products, and have the West or whomever, buy the finished goods. That means more jobs for Ghanaians down the line.

China is being very good and generous to Ghana; China has given Ghana interest “FREE” loan to build another “green” electricity plant in the Northwestern part of the country at Bui.
Why would China do something like that (there are no free lunches)?
Could it be they want to get access to Ghana’s aluminum, manganese, gold, diamond, and other raw materials?

Before the rotating blackouts started in Ghana, and up to the point where Valco turned off its lights, I did not see the Chinese offering to give Ghana money to buy generators.



Why is it that China is only buying raw material from Ghana, and selling finished goods? Why are Chinese coming to Ghana in droves, and staying, but they are NOT letting Ghanaians, and for that matter, Africans stay a day past their visa dates

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