Back To Social Capital •Must Be The Central Thrust If Development

omy in Africa, down from first. The decline is a clear tes mony to the illusion based on “growth” rates without the fundamental underpinning for sustainability. We now have the opportunity to reboot and end the illusion.

We recall that in just right breath-taking years in Brazil, the government of Ignacio Lula da Silva pulled forty million people out of poverty. There was no magic wand just going back to the basics. The produc ve base of the economy must be rebuilt. There must be an emphasis in retooling the Basic Industries such as Iron and Steel, Machine Tools, petrochemicals and so forth. Governments at all levels must ini ate mass social housing programs trajectory on a monthly rent to buy basis. We have to put the people first in our quest for sustainability.

Here at home, we have seen how Lateef Jakande, Sam Mbak-