Contrary to general perception, Western aid represents only 2% of GDP across Africa whereas African in Diaspora sent in a whopping $52billion back home in 2014. About The Author:
rather than go directly to Dakar from Lagos or Accra? No other people can help African right their history. The
Ade holds an MBA from Manchester Business School, an M.Sc. in
Arabs, Asians, Latin Americans took their destinies in their
Mechatronics, Kings College, London, and a B.Eng. in Mechanical
hands and re-wrote their stories. Today, the leading air-
Engineering from University of Lagos. He was part of the team
lines are in the Middle-east, the biggest heavy industries
that executed the Gordon LNG A$50b project in Western Australia
in Japan and Korea, the Asian Tigers revamped their econ-
gathering even greater experience in procurements, contracts and
omies. African nations similarly need bold ideas again in
supply chain management. He joined Global E&P company total
health, education, military, agriculture, industrialization,
Upstream (TUPNI) for the Egina Project offshore West Africa and
transport and logistics among other endeavours of life.
is now at Total, South Korea where he holds package management responsibilities for LLI and Engineering functions.
Think Africa, think big again!
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