Cooperation in specialized training and education for Africa's socio-economic development: a relevant programme

Abstract

The most striking feature of the African socio-economic landscape is technology gap that extends in all directions, circumscribing endogenous developmental efforts of all types. The most serious economic aspect of this encirclement is that the regions consumer needs are far beyond her production capabilities in terms at least, of the requisite skills. The needs are therefore supplied by external commercial interests which, ipso facto, have to be vested for their survival, in the perpetuation of the gap.