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Diplomatic
Corner
with Mohammed Basah
A
diligent study of
world history
reveal's that Africa is
the birth place of human
civilization and organized
knowledge. Egypt was the
first ever world power, her
massive pyramids a
testament to this fact even
today, with the great
pyramid of Giza standing for
over 3800 years as the tallest
man-made structure in the
world. While Timbuktu in
modern day Mali was once
the intellectual capital of the
world, the first ever
mathematics text book was
written by an African named
Ahmes while Imhotep
another African was the first
scientist to be known by
name in history. The Russian
language was given its
modern form by a man
named Alexander
Sergeyevich Pushkin, who
had African heritage.
numerous to mention, as
even the White House and
Capitol were built with
majority black labour.
Though the 15th century
slave trade robbed Africa of
great human resources,
creating one of the largest
Diaspora in human history.
Africa's gifts to the world as
we know it today are too The inheritors of this legacy
and rich history were
ravaged by centuries of the
trans-atlantic slave trade that
culminated in the Berlin
conference of 1884 that
partitioned Africa into much
of what we know it to be
today. Africa of today,
though divided along
colonial borders, must
promote integration and
cooperation among her
peoples facilitating easy
movement of people and
goods across borders and the
Diplomatic Community plays
a strategic role in facilitating
this movement to create and
retain wealth in Africa.
PR TIMES AFRICA VOL 1. JULY 2015
1ST EDITION
Diplomatic Corner aims at
promoting high level
conversations about
promoting intra-African
trade as well as favourable
trade terms with
international partners. We
will be covering all things
African, at the Diplomatic
level, celebrating our history
while envisioning a greater
future for Africa in the 21st
century.
We have made a round of the
diplomatic community in
Nigeria and will be doing
same in the rest of Africa and
at the level of the African
Union, to press for greater
cooperation and ensure that
our foreign policy thrust is as
Ambassador Tom Amolo of
Kenya said "Africa first".
Africa must stop selling
herself short and the key
drivers of the African agenda
are the Diplomats.
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