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                The world has clearly identified what poverty means and what wealth of affluence means. We instantly know what a poor man looks like and what a rich man looks like by being told how much money they have in the bank or what they own. Wealth is individual! Or so it seems. Let us look at the subject matter a little closer and you will see that the term self-made does not go beyond the individual; self-made does not exist. A better thing is always built on the efforts of more than one man or woman, people along the lines have played pivotal roles to the arrival of such individuals. So what do the rich know that the poor do not? It is simply this, keep the bond of wealth strong; investors, family wealth, alliances, team-work, common goals or enemies, community. Poor nations may or may not have once been wealthy but not everyone has always been poor or rich, everyone was born with a chance to c...

                 As a society, everyone would usually look to the government for its direction, leadership and motion towards making the environment better. While this is true, this is only the half-truth of any developed society. A developed society is a developed community where the factors of development do not reside in these arms of infrastructure, facilities and amenities but in the people that make up that community. A developed environment is a developing environment, where what was available yesterday is constantly upgraded to the needs of today by the people who inhabit that community. There is no need to validate that statement because if we only look at the trends we would see the definitions take its natural course. Being developed is a term that was coined to mean being up-to-date with modern science, biology, technology and methodologies of doing things faster, better cheaper and mo...

When you wake up each day, what do you do? Do you have some fancy routine to get you in the mood of work or do you look forward to another day of being human. What you do comes from who you are and who you are should not come from what you do. Many people have lives they never get to live, goals they never get to accomplish and dreams they never get to achieve. The direct thought of questioning should be why? While there are many stipulated projections as to why an individual always seems far away from his or her intent toward living, my direct observation is simply they do not believe enough in anything they put their minds to. What they believe in instead is hope. Hope that one day they will achieve this or that. Hope is not bad, in fact, to hope keeps your desire for a better day alive but to hope in an idea is to not have one. If I woke up hungry and would like to eat some eggs with bread cheese, jam and a cup of tea and having none in the house I hope, then if no one brou...

Africa and her independent countries have seemingly been plagued by societal development issues - ranging from poor leadership, corruption, poverty, and lack of infrastructure, to more obvious challenges like lack of electricity, access to good education, freedom of innovative expressions and an absence of basic benefits of a modern society - leading her to be in the fore-front of poor communities. There have been very many opinions, analyses, compositions, panels and contributions to arrive at a solution. But, the problem is basic in nature: a lack of understanding of the very word ‘development’ in itself. However, this paper is not to critique any individual, group of persons, governments or parastatals, but rather throw light on a simple prospective solution to our common problem as a Black nation. Africa not only suffers from a loss of identity, but also a loss of historical accomplishments by the early Africans of the earth, in simp...

Development for any environment is not just a singular process by a certain description or solution. It is a repetitive and communal activity that loops itself over time with a variety of infusions: It is a hydra of connected blood tissues, veins and arteries. What we have observed is that for a society to develop, there must be a connectivity factor from the proposed solution to reach the citizens and appeal to them to increase their capacities - from where they are to where they could be – either through community efforts, education, practice or want for a greater tomorrow. This is why we have things like Public Relations, Advertising and Marketing. A highly underrated but extremely relevant angle to development is the Media, popularly known as Mass Media in all its forms. The media is a channel of information. There is a saying: “ As a man thinketh, so is he.”  This is very true in our world – in the present, historical or future terms. What we often ...

Life is so much more than food and drink. An animal has only one motive throughout its existence; to survive. As human beings, the living experience begins to mean more to us as we evolve and interact with our world. How we view the conscious spectrum begins to affect how we do the things that we do. This is what living should be about. A person should be able to express or at least interact with the thoughts and ideas which they have from time to time but unfortunately these thoughts are held back by a much mundane instinct: the will to survive, to eat, to surpass the next human. While being the dominant creature is not wrong in itself, there is something greater that is lost: evolution. To evolve is simply part of the living process: it is not something grand or superfluous in its operational model instead it is the very engine that makes the human entity or empire thrive. To be alive is a gift and yet to some it is a burden, a sadistic twist of oxygen, oxytocin and an oxymor...