Is it too little too late??

Is it too little too late???

Please accept my profound apology for the long absence. I have been away from my US base, and I am now in Accra, Ghana, West Africa.

What prompted me to resurface at this time? It is very simple, I have been in Ghana for almost three years now, and the luxury of gathering facts from inside Africa in order to put it in my blog is a bit difficult and expensive. The land-line phone system in Ghana is nothing to write home about, to put it mildly; and the wireless modem method (which is what I am using now) is very expensive because everything is measured by the gigabyte of downloads.

But let us go to why I am writing now. Africa, over the last 10 years or so, have been abandoned by the “West”. And before anybody jumps on my back or neck and says, the West does not owe Africa anything, let us remember the old say, ‘He who pays the piper calls the tune”.

China, has entrenched herself all over Africa in the last 10 years or so with either free money, or interest-free loan.  Speaking specifically about Ghana, interest-free loan to build hydro power at Bui in the Brong Ahafo Region (the project is almost complete) has resulted in an additional 150 or so megawatts of electricity being injected into the emaciated arm of Ghana.

Recently, Ghana deported 167 or so Illegal gold miners to China, then last week another 1072 were deported, folks that is almost one thousand two hundred Chinese from only one country in Africa. These Chinese are from just one specific area in Eastern China (and last year exported one Billion US dollars illegally to China).

Ghana has been going through something called “dumso” (pronounce “dum sor”). This means ‘off and on ‘ in one of the local languages. The question is, why is the electricity going off and on, because for those who know something about the Bible and the New Testament,  the question is,“are you your brothers’ keeper”? Toga and Benin CANNOT support themselves, and rely on Ghana for electricity; hence the rotating blackout in Ghana. The management of ECG in Ghana (electricity company of Ghana) is calling it load-shedding, it should be call “forced rotating BLACKOUT” because Ghanaians have been taking care of their brothers for years in this respect.

Let us hop over to DR Congo and the Grand Inga Hydro project; the funding here again is China. He or she who pays the piper, calls the tune. For the benefit of those who do not know, this is supposed to be the largest hydro project in the world when completed, and it is supposed to more than double the electricity supply in Africa (south of the Sahara when completed).

The question is, why all of a sudden US president Obama is offering to put 7 billion US dollars into Africa to light her up??