Many people are asking me to speak publicly about the troubles that the great and dignified people of Senegal are experiencing.
I understand why they want me to speak out.
But really what more could I say, after spending years analysing the socio-economic situations of our countries, to show how this factory of structural poverty would eventually arouse popular frustrations that could degenerate into revolt which would end up being co-opted by the most structured forces?
What can I do, after apparently preaching in the desert, striving to show the urgency of building African economies in an inclusive way by grounding them in their strengths, and setting out the ways to do it?
After spending so much time demonstrating how to build strategic partnerships on value chains between Africans and their partners, now that the era of economic domination has so definitely been eclipsed by the growing economic and political awareness of African peoples – but who still beg while sitting on heaps of wealth.
Rather, my attention is directed towards the search for fundamental strategies for economic, social and political reconstruction, now that I have completely failed to help stop this infernal machine of self-destruction which, sadly, may decide to spin itself out to a logical conclusion.
May God save us from the worst!
Papa Demba Thiam, a Senegalese-born economist and international consultant, specialises in industrial development and regional integration. He is the author of “Interface Strategies: Economic Integration and Development” (Peter Lang Academic Publishers, 1991)
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