| | Never before have the peoples of Africa so urgently needed the support of their friends in the West, and especially in the United States. Constricted simultaneously by the world economic recession, a global glut in many African agricultural commodities, the costs of militarism and internal economic and political problems, Africa needs temporary and long-term support in seeking alternatives to being discarded as the fourth world, irrelevant to the global economy and community. The need for food aid where drought and famine stalk the land is urgent and pressing. More important is the rebuilding of an indigenous agenda for development which begins with basic human needs, setting aside the simplistic formulae of the modernization models and the cold war tolerance of minority regimes. |
