What counts most paper money or natural resources?
Natural resources are better for a people to have than money. Natural resources, if managed properly, can increase the wealth of the whole people for a loooong time. Now, money, spend it, and whoopee, its gone…gone…gone… Africa has a rich cultural diversity, a rich long history, and they should focus on using their natural resources to finance a foundation (education) for their children to learn about their heritage (a proud child is a strong child) and about their neighbours heritage (an understanding child is a peaceful child). As the situation is today, with the big world corporations taking advantage of the situation, and african warlords and powermongers bent on eradicating the “others”, (Uganda then, Sudan now). For Africa to overcome it’s problems, it needs to cooperate on a continental level (The African Union is a step forward) about the price of the resources that leaves Africa, educate their children, and in a generation Africa should become the new economical wonder o