Frederick Kwesi Great Agboletey

Glasgow, Scotland

1 Another Tale

Smooth jazz sipping through Bang and Olofsson, high fidelity speakers, at a low intense tone, the heavy, tight bass, just ticking off the beat at the right tempo to keep me balanced, my heart beat is in synch with those bass beats. The day starts at dawn, literary; no need for word play, at four thirty the alarm goes off on the mobile, that gentle bzzzzz, working its way to grating rrraoooaw! If you don’t wake and stop it. Unless I’m totally bush whacked, it normally doesn’t go beyond the second buzz. My sleep pattern is a variation of very deep and very light, at the deep phase a hurricane won’t wake me, at the light end, let’s just say I skip surface of sleep and consciousness and lie calm to keep waking everyone else. Four thirty and it’s as bright as six o’clock in a tropical clime, however, this is far northern climes, with long dark winters and long bright summers. It is summer and it is quiet and bright outside, most people are still sleeping and early “wakers” are fumbling around, to get out of there cotton covers.

A prayer, to set waking day off, a stroll to kitchen to start coffee or tea, depending on how my mouth tastes like and a big glass of heated orange juice. A perfect start to each working day, weekends are meant to be slept deep into.

Ehm!, the morning is matured, full light, and it’s a bright world out there, it could be anywhere on this unique planet, full of life, life for the most part in languid states of various states of wakefulness, wherever sun is up and lights are bright, there is an automatic adjustment, even sleep shifts to a different level of mind state. I have done night work before; I know day dreams of full day sleeps have a different quality to them than dreams that are projected on mind screen in darkness of a twenty four hour day streaming to an end.

Its 10:30 am, there is a silence to these parts of morning, when every one us seated at their day tasks and all that keeps our artistry of economic machinery is in full production mode. It’s quite on streets that have been cleaned of previous night’s nightmare and are giving pretence of cheerful city glow.

My office is on the sixth floor, four floors above ground level, maybe twenty from the root of this mighty block of modernity, a seventy’s art décor type stretching two blocks standing at intersection of two major city junctions, right here in the centre of city centre. I have a pretty decent view both in winter and summer, in winter, which ia faded white memory many months old, a see straight through to the traffic light at the junction, where the southern corner of this huge block begins. In summer, obstructed view enabled by a full grown tree, that is full leaved and towers well above the tenth floor is a becalming coverage of wind blown nature at its very best, I wouldn’t give up this view for anything, obstruction and all.

Ideas like gentle breeze ruffle normal tedium of daily activities. An article read somewhere questions why atletles, such as basketball players receive more media attention than intelligentsia. Interesting, who lost are those who pose those questions, they do so because more people are interested in paying for tickets to attend basketball matches and football games for that matter than to attend lectures and forums, which by all indications are afr less interesting and people are ready to pay extra for sports channels to be tickled by excitement of a game than pay for academic journals or read them free online where it is made accessible. Why pose such meaningless questions, I wonder. It is by popular vote, duh!

One enters employment as a necessity to met daily material existence ends, in working places exist a social medium, where task remains a precept that allows individuals to interact in a common shared space, working, individually or as a shared responsibility to meet a common end, that common end may find multiple expressions but a simple conception is that it enables sustenance to source of employment and enables meeting a goal for those therein employed.

A sales organization is an interesting setting it is by its very nature a competitive environment that pits each individual against an external entity that is an external world from which a demand exists and a desire must be created to make a sale, making that sales and lots of it makes a successful employee, while inability to make those sales renders one a liability that must necessarily be discarded to keep working organization afloat. A sales organisation exists because it has employees that irrespective of their individual idiosyncrasies are capable of generating resources, of a financial nature obviously to keep corporate entity afloat and there are certainly many of such in various guises of corporate garb, right from rabidly aggressive stock sellers to docile charity hunters with a righteous course to change situations most humans will prefer not to be aware off.

Between a person who enters a sales organisation and external world exists an internal social environment unique to each setting that is interesting to observe and understand from a purely behavioural curiosity perspective.

It is interesting, wherever more than four persons gather over prolonged period, a social environment evolves where there is an interactive dynamism of trade offs and acquiesces necessary to allow permissible dependency. Where external pressures or delimitations as well as degree of shared space required increase proportionately, then that dynamism becomes ever more intense, while a lesser demand for accommodating another individual in close relation and dependency permit a greater degree of individual preference to remain and thus lowers intensity of social intercourse as self determined rather than situation driven.

In all social situations while confidence is a plus in self driven achievement and capability development, hubris is despised and a liability in social interaction whereas sophrosyne, a prudent sense of consideration for others and self control from being a centre of regular attention makes one a respected and popular group member. Social settings necessarily evolve group mentality not necessarily of a negative nature being mainly a normal human disposition to aggregate in groups of perceived shared similarities.

Working environments are interesting each person wakes from his or her home and shares a common space to achieve some defined end. Room is made for reasonably accepted behaviour and responsibilities are apportioned according to capability at primary task, mainly. Those who again access to organisations, which for most part are constantly seeking o replenish and will constantly be seeking for human mental and physical replacement for so long as mythical robots have no been developed to a degree enough to assume human task often have three choices, to find their work places agreeable and thrive, just be comfortable and middle through till retirement for a decent salary or nothing finding an agreeable environment move on to another organisation with its own evolved and evolving culture and group tendencies. It is a simple conceptualisation of humans at work but all complex systems inevitably break down to comprehensible simplistic building blocks at myriad levels of conceptualisation.

These demarcations of typologies are not by any means invariables, rather middle positioning has a tendency of varying positively and beneficially both for individual and corporate towards higher achievement or detractively towards potential departees from a corporate entity and departess, who rather than foist their dissatisfaction of wasting human potential in non beneficial settings opt to try elsewhere. Two factors come into play mediating and influencing eventual performance of any employee middling in zones that can only be described as expectant regions of improvement or devolution to non performing. These two factors are individual desire to find means and ways to improve and directional influence of motivating leaders who can enable such individuals to discover their full potentials and in employing such potentials to excel.

When an organisational self classifies itself in a certain way it begins to exist in a self fulfilling void of excellence above norm or routine of committing same failures in a self destructive spiral that is one swoop removed from cataclysmic black hole of self consumptive destruction. Vultures within can pick at left over of unexplored potentials and bone pick dry a store of possibilities left run dry. It is always a sad day when such vultures assume responsibility. Like TYCOS CEO, like that single seemingly destructive infection in that global French bank, they whittle a system from within to satisfy their singular greed, all the time believing that there could possible be no alternative way that portrays their strength other than abusing their positions and opportunities through a vast orgiastic greed that totally defines new, self applying rules of appropriacy.

In other instances determined organisational captains, with a vision and a desire undeterred continually sustain growth through innovations and ability to bear an organisation through periods of trail with a belief that they as an entity have a destiny to fulfil to give their clients an offer, a product, a breakthrough that they cannot ignore. These two forces are extremities of a polarity that has a common source and a split point somewhere along a trajectory of growth that sets them at opposite polarities with certain consequences to their organisations.

From this mind states defining a vision, and a means to realise that vision an organisations finds expression, it is beefed with willing souls ready to commit to a course of shared ends and evolves to encapsulate a reality greater in breadth than any one person, it becomes a vibrant self definitive entity in a self defining reality where success means growth and failure results in dissolution.

In between ideas and resolute determination is a field of idle participants who do their bit and are rewarded for their bits, these cogs in wheels of industrial machinery are not by any means insignificant, indeed they are majority and exert utmost influence on many aspects of an organisation’s operative outcome, yet they are limited by their decision influence. In these majority is a pool of untapped talent that good organisations create a means of tapping, pooling and employing to their benefit or being simplistically realised operatives have little use of and do not call forth to complicate simple processes.

In this place, during my time, I have seen many come and go, not only those who at one point are having a bad stretch of sales luck, but even those who were making their best sales ever. There is a palpable unease that permeates at certain times every situation that is pressure powered, it could be that these unnerving sense of driving pressures gets to some easier than others. However, that remains to be verified. One is conscious that sales and call centres have an sense of a “get me there” feel to them, that sense of transiting from one thing less desirable to one more meaningful. Again, it is just an attempt to give substance and meaning to a situation difficult to explain with any sense of clarity, I guess it calls for a scientific exploration to gain further understanding in indubitable confirmation.

A person who excels in a task has either a natural talent for that task or has acquired and mastered and translated that training into task performance achieving a perfect fusion between knowledge acquisition and task completion. Then comes variations of approximation to highest possible states of performance which conceivably in middling performers can be improved through inducement by training and motivation to draw strengths of reserve to lift performance above mediocre with often expected outcomes of performance improvement.

What is natural talent is an ease of implementing with ease desired outcomes states with a seemingly ease that is not pervasive to all persons in same engagement. Self perceived exertion at task performance is also experienced as less intense than at other learned tasks. In sales job such as that which we engaged in, we offered conferences to management personnel in Fortune 500 organizations, some do sale well others don’t. It is just how it is and management’s effort is geared towards refining raw edges to ensure that product introduction to potential clients, once access has been gained via telephone is effectively done to generate required interest that gears a conferences theme and presentation to relevant areas related to corporate growth.

It is a simple enough task and properly conducted and aligned with an individuals interest and willingness to part with a significant payment and desire to travel to a foreign location mainly within the EU region, it is a done deal. It means money in sales persons pocket and organizational success, each miniscule effort is an atom in ensuring organisational continuity.

For most part it a self driven desire of foreigners in a far country with limited choices by way of employment, it is a dedication to achieve a dream to spring out of poverty and frustration of economies in tropical lands that have yet to find their centre of stability and become a pillar of hope for millions languishing in material want and despair. To most persons who enter into employment it is a test against self to excel against challenges and to make their life meaningful.

The group in its various stratifications come work together to promote success as a collective effort and can be violated by personal bias of immature participants working to promote their self interest. However, who is worthy when all from same source take their origin as struggling souls randomly favoured to make a meaningful existence? In work groups a leader’s task is to focus attention on primary tasks that set organizational agenda at centre of all activities within corporate property and de-emphasise personal, non organisational concerns. Pursued effectively it allows even those with pressing personal issues to find a place of escape in the eight hours of working time and enables a zone where their energies can be positively transformed to corporate benefit.

Corporate entities have adapted to remove individual and placed corporate objectives at core of management and individual performance assessment, this superimposes corporate identity over and above individual idiosyncrasies. How this finds expression differs from entity to entity given how these corporate objective steering goals were defined and adaptively evolved under different leadership to define what an organisations has evolved to be as an entity. That nature of an organisation is its culture. It is a collective acceptance strained through all human and non human processes working over time to give a clearly identifiable expression of what a particular organisation defines as rudimentary of expressive characteristic.

The corporate has become a social forum for identifying raw human talent attracting and training to become an efficient performance element promoting an organisation’s goal. It is leadership that shapes a vision that becomes a goal attainable transfused through an organisation’s management structure to become a sturdy framework for corporate long term viability.

Successful organisations are those who create shared platform of inveigled shared responsibility, employees that are socialised to see themselves as part of a shared responsibility are willing to give everything to sustain it over long term.

This perception of how “we prefer our organisation to run and perform through its employees” is not a fixed state that once attained remains unresponsive to change and its pressures thereof, its an expandable state of desirability that is commodious in adaptively responding to assume newer states of preference along several factor determinable.

Reflections, capturing mind’s screen, painting thought projections on a passing scenario and a time gone by.

2 Back to the Past

Dragging a rope that is wet with salty water of lagoon with its muddy bottom and heavily soaked rope, permeated with deep dark waters of languid lagoon weighs a ton. I reach back, many years back, traversing back into past dragrope fishing expedition on Keta lagoon. Peculiar way of fishing; drag rope fishing, but a common one in this lagoon region of West Africa, a thick, heavy, rope is held along a stretch of several hundreds of meters and dragged along bottom mud of lagoon. Lagoon itself stretches over several 100 kilometres square area with water depth for several kilometres never quite rising above 5 feet, you look through translucent water and pick fishes stuck into mud by dragged rope and what a feast of tilapias it often was, everyone went home with basketful of fishes. Dragrope fishing is a communal activity, it takes many persons to make it successful and those dragging rope ends take a contribution from everyone else who is following rope and picking fishes stuck in slippery bottom mud.

There is a sandy strip and on the other side, unsettling, roaring Atlantic ocean, breaking with a foaming dash of anger and eroding with ferocity Keta, inevitably, mighty ocean won and broke that little town to pieces.

I have often wondered in recent times, for a town so organized who kept a photographic documentation of how this angry unceasing beat, battered and eroded off surface of earth this quaint little town I had lived in?

Who records disaster systematically, as it causes affliction, as for severely afflicted, they are wounded, incapable of full reasoning, caught amidst grinding pain of seemingly insurmountable losses. Just after thoughts of what could have been done and yet never quite turned into reality at point of happenstance.

Reflections are similar to experiencing a timeless awareness a step removed from existing states of awareness, more akin to distractive displacement of a late afternoon summer day that sets noise of day just beyond a thin veneer of self, looking at its activities on a faint screen.

What we perceive as acceptable and meaningful is a distillation of our interpretation of objective reality subjected to a self defining reasonableness. Knowledge itself being a growth process of devolution to gaining greater awareness through demystification of chunks of reality perceived as understood and in being understood open a path for further understanding through a process of “detailisation” of bits of larger chunks. The process of course works in opposite manner as well where microcosmic perceptions enable better interpretation of macrocosmic phenomenon, altogether it is complementary.

Humans by their very designation and construct were not disposed to a placid lifestyle of non engagement; everything about human characteristic from mental acuity to physical designation indicate a creature who must interact proactively with its environment to fulfil its material needs and ends. Over time, humans can now accept that there is no limitation to what their minds can coerce out of their planetary heritage along certain dimensions of expectations, though natural barriers act as levels of paucity to enable maturation at one point to cause a shift to a higher more sophisticated level with likely better fulfilment from an earlier comparable state.

It is expected that all actions are well tough off and examined from all angles before commitment. An action that by all its indications is poorly thought off, irrational in conduct and poorly assessed in its impact value must come from a decision source that is incapable of complete thought processing, coming short before determining short and long term effects of action consequence, such actions, impulsive, puerile and incomplete are not expected of organizational leaders, neither must organisational leaders lose sight of a need to teach this wholesome idea assessment through collective engagement and evaluation to narrow and lower detrimental effects of obviate efforts to add value at one end without incurring unnecessary costs at another end of a systemic whole.

On a bright morning a helicopter was buzzing far over head, its “whup, whup” noise increased in crescendo and it was apparently coming to land in our town between two water bodies. Must have been my first time of seeing that wieldy birdlike contraption, there was no big surprise, I just took it in stride, however, everyone wondered who was piloting that contraption, from a distant it was shouted, it is Colonel Deku, a local boy made good who was on a mission to visit our little town. It was a decisive moment of political shift, an elected government has been kicked out of office and soldiers had taken over national government.

3 - Speech – We Intend –

We intend to widen existing scope of opportunities for this nation, its people and ensure that collectively everyone has equal benefits of its resources while not denying enabled input that in its absence causes creativity to be stunted.

This nation will not allow leaders who undermine collective confidence by denying resource inputs to its starved collective and denying assistance to those who need to be lifted up.

This nation has to lift up its tottering masses that they must become driving forces of needed change to reconstruct decayed structures of traditional societies into communities better prepared to sustain times unrelenting progress.

Population is increasing; prior existing states are tumbling, presently enabled provisions are far too inadequate, calling into question a need for review of how these nations ought to align their resources to meeting their needs. It is a simple question of survival at community and nation level.

Some progress has been made, much progress remains to be made and it can only be done by ensuring that where darkness and forlornness had denied hope, decisive actions of well framed ideas executed will bring forth a burst of unrestrained growth and progress. This we need and we must attain if there is to be a meaningful future for this nation among community of nations.

Enabling those who are marginalised to benefit from our common resource should not threaten those who have made some effort that has set them ahead of others, rather, by being successful they have become a means for taking advantage of first starters and being shoulder upon which their brothers and sisters can lean. Together, we intend to make this nation a better place, we would build on what has been attained by those who have contributed to national development and we intend to add significantly to their contributions, working with a well informed, unhindered and engaged citizenry.

We as a people, a community of tribes with a rich history and a worthy culture know that endurance of deprivations has its limits. Daily, we are involved in developing, improving and sustaining what we consider are worthy qualities of existence. We intend to broaden scope of what passes for worthy existence drawing on a species collective, intellectual resources over millennia and give our life in this human collective a greater scope for defining wider meaningfulness. We do not believe in idealistic musings, yet we believe in a brighter prospect far beyond what is presently, generally available to masses who are barely eking out meaningful existence in deplorable states in nation that is God’s gift to mankind.

Our attained state of developing, ought to inspire us to commit more effort to adding  value to what we have attained as a nation, given examples abounding globally of what is possible and how we can push beyond barriers of self imposed limitations. We are poised to generate more creative avenues of engaging our under-employed people given resources enabled us by humanity as a whole, yet we are currently caught in a slumber of inexcusable, lamentable lack of activity in various and many required fields of productive engagement.

Our promises are worthy thoughts of knowledgeable men to be executed in concrete renditions of human progress. We believe in social nurturance of a kind not altogether different from love of a mother for her forbears that desires and seeks only what is of best and greatest value for those greatly cherished. We cherish our national heritage, a distinct effort by a collective of humans to add wider dimension to humans’ state of physical existence; we intend to sharpen our perspective on that collective heritage to make it shine even brighter in our midst.

We intend to attract our people to stay and share in something worthwhile of human effort. To create meaningful dimensions of engagement that make our people believe that they are actually engaged in nation building, a progressive restructuring of those elements of human community building that will stand the test of time, a nation that they will with pride pass on to their children as a worthy inheritance and this effort ought not to be marginalised to a few but every single one who is of this land.

A nation they have worked through these generations to make a distinct place among nations, we intend not only to retain our best and brightest but even when they reach out to discover, leaving to other places of human excellence, they will remember that they are of a place worthy of existence and identifying with and will willingly return when their sojourn abroad is fulfilled.

This land is ours, a place where we have found physical expression, one that we intend to improve, giving more to it, each our lifetime than we had received, an endowment for our children and a hope of possibilities of what human will, disciplined and under determined leadership can attain.

What we dream of is a bringing our individual and collective dreams of what is possibly best in our existing capabilities and in each individual life and to give it expression in our lifetimes, believing that we can change our existing state and make it ever more desirable. Our limitations are more or less determined by our imaginations overcoming our self imposed inhibitions. We must become giants in thought rendering gigantic accomplishments in our times for we can and there is a need for these accomplishments. For each of us, it only our lifetimes to consider, and in that period of existence let us make it a lifetime of unlimited and unbounded accomplishments.

It means our schools will no longer be sheds set amidst dusty abandonment but taking a cue from simplicity of missionary education and its constructs to continue to develop academic centres of culture and knowledge acquisition set amidst our times best technological capabilities. We ought to cherish what our collective human intellect has made possible and live those possibilities as structures in which humanity celebrates life as a gift most worthy of a loving Creator.

Make no mistake, our existence as a nation is simply due to its human resources, each life, each person is worthy more than their weight in diamonds, without them we are not, so we intend to make each life a gift most treasured. A leader articulates a purpose and work together with their community to make it a possibility, we intend to do that.

We are a nation awakening from traditional past into a giddy post modern age, the industrial age seems to have even galloped past us, we lived in its shadows and became keenly sensitised to our lack in defaults of lack of development as traditional societies, no longer sustainable by a purely agro-traditional practice and process. We will no longer delay in engaging our collective intellect in reaching for palpable future using our traditional values a guide but not a hindrance to escalating social growth and development.

We seek input from each and every mind, criticism is only useful if it is a criticism that adds value by engaging corrective measures rather than an empty anger of what by all definitions is collective responsibility.

Who is a government other than those governed, can a government stand outside those it governs? Be of an enquiring mind rather than accepting what another postulates, think and add to our commonwealth of shared values.

Undeveloped urban slums must be redeveloped to modern communities. Slums impose more cost on their environments and under mine national developmental efforts, those who are forced by circumstances to dwell therein soon are infected by a severity of lack of hope that only those are determined can escape and see how many have escaped its gripping hold, how many more will minds liberated and given pleasant places to mature and reflect will have been of benefit to us.

Significant numbers of people are still living in sub standard houses and dwelling places that could be improved upon. In rebuilding and restructuring our nation to become developmentally more positioned to take advantage of human developments hitherto, we need to reconsider the whole concept of community development. We are not only building communities, but communities that are self sustainable by being total economic zones providing, shelter, education, health, social services and work for those who dwell in these designated communities and by their design and construct infuse a growth dynamism in these communities that allows them to become means of driving their dependent economies.

Quote - Between 1925 and 1930 Germany was the site of innovative and extensive municipal public housing projects, mostly in Berlin, Cologne and Frankfurt am Main. These Siedlungen (settlements), were made necessary by the dreadful living conditions of pre-war urban tenements. The right to a healthy dwelling was written into the 1919 Weimar Constitution, but few dwellings were built until economic stability in 1925.

These settlements were low-rise, no more than 5 stories, and in suburban settings. Residents were provided access to light, air, and sun. The size, shape, orientation and architectural style of Germany's public housing were informed by the recent experience of the Vienese and the Dutch, the anti-urban Garden City Movement in Britain, by new industrialized mass-production and pre-fabrication building techniques, by the novel use of steel and glass, and by the progressive-liberal policies of the Social Democrats.

Architect Martin Wagner (with Bruno Taut) was responsible for the thousands of dwellings built in and around Berlin, including the Horseshoe Siedlung (named for its shape), and Uncle Tom's Cabin Siedlung (named for a local restaurant). But Wagner was second to the city planner Ernst May in Frankfurt. May was responsible for the construction of 23 separate settlements, 15,000 total units, in five years. He ran his own sizable research facility to investigate, for instance, air-flow in various floorplan configurations, construction techniques, etc. The Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky applied the principles of Taylorism to the kitchen workspace and developed the Frankfurt kitchen while working for Ernst May.

Additional quote from Wikipedia - The New Frankfurt

In the context of a housing shortage and a degree of political instability, May assembled a powerful staff of progressive architects and initiated a large-scale housing development program. May's developments were remarkable for the time for being compact, semi-independent, well-equipped with community elements like playgrounds, schools, theatres, and common washing areas. For the sake of economy and construction speed May used simplified, prefabricated forms. These settlements are still marked by their functionality and the way they manifest egalitarian ideals such as equal access to sunlight, air, and common areas. Of these settlements the best known is probably Römerstadt, and some of the structures are colloquially known as Zickzackhausen.

In 1926 May sent for Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky to join him in Frankfurt. Lihotsky was a kindred spirit and applied the same sort of functional clarity to household problems, and so in Frankfurt, after much analysis of work habits and footsteps, she developed the prototype of the modern installed kitchen, and pursued her idea that "housing is the organized implementation of living habits".

May's Frankfurt was a civic and critical success. This has been described (by John R. Mullin) as "one of the most remarkable city planning experiments in the twentieth century". In two years May produced more than 5,000 building units, up to 15,000 units in five years, published his own magazine (Zeitschrift Das Neue Frankfurt) and in 1929 won international attention at the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne. This also brought him to the attention of the Soviet Union.

Quote - Preservationists in Germany are seeking Historic World Heritage Site-status for six 1920s-era, modern-living housing projects (like the project in Berlin shown above). This story in Der Spiegal points to the “cream of the crop” of European Architects and builders who sought to provide a “utopia in bricks and mortar” – decent, comfortable, functional social housing for ordinary people.Even today, 80 years later, these complexes continue to provide convenient places for working class people to live comfortably, amidst green lawns and groups of apartment blocks, near transportation and shopping and jobs. Sound familiar? From the article:"The settlements are something really special, not just in Germany or even in Europe," says Annemarie Jaeggi, director of Berlin's Bauhaus Archive museum, "The quality of the building is so high and the architecture has spread right across the world -- it was really one of Germany's contributions to the 20th century."

Quote - "History has been written today," said Renee Lewis Glover, AHA president and CEO. "These approvals mean the end of the 73 years of housing projects in Atlanta. We have become the first major city in the nation to completely eradicate these areas of government-sponsored concentrated poverty, crime and low educational achievement."

"In the 1930s, public housing was an amazingly far-sighted approach to the nation's critical shortage of housing," Glover said. "But in the 21st Century, a new approach is necessary -- one that integrates the families into the mainstream economy. Isolating poor families apart from the mainstream is wrong. The costs, financial, human, and social are staggering."

Building new structures to house poverty is just giving a face lift to poverty to build new communities that will replace slums requires a total mind and philosophic re-orientation as to how to upgrade a nation’s quality of living integrate success into its very fibre at community levels, this means that those elements that are required to ensure a sustainable quality of life over long term perspectives have to be integrated into new communities. A community under development in developing nations especially in Africa have to be conceived of as a totality of functional viability bringing together in composition all those elements required for sustainable independent functioning and long term sustainability to be a success as dwelling places. These ideas have to be inculcated as much as possible into such community development plans right at point of planning.

We need universal day care systems that allow women to leave their young children under properly monitored care, we need improved primary education in proper educational structures both physical and curricula wise to ensure that schools become cultural centres that natural attract children to experience education beyond anything presently conceivable.

Replacing existing slums, we need secondary and technical institutions in these communities that play dual roles of training adult males and females to acquire new skills working together with manufacturing and service businesses integrated in these communities to ensure that adults are occupied in sustainable employment or training programs that they reflect a positive expectation of life that brightens their children’s futures.

These are what are required to redevelop slums, it goes far beyond physical upgrading albeit this is by far primary to change structures in slum dwellings. We are of course open to receive input from electorate on how to refine and upgrade our perspective on realising these goals for urban social upgrading.

To redevelop land occupied by slums in essence implies a redevelopment of valuable property under-utilised to create property that is designed to highlight private ownership, which again requires development of infrastructure that has appeal for users to retain and acquire, whether it is mainly designed as single unit family dwellings or shared housing units, design must call into purpose a high quality community that provides for prior slums occupants as well attracting inflow from other areas, this of course implies that provisions must be comprehensively appealing across all income ranges. To invest in such projects implies investment into a tenable future with provisions integrated to ensure project long term sustenance.

Environmental friendliness and green areas that should serve as pressure release zones and parks in urban communities, well spaced buildings that alleviate a sense of over crowding, individual entries and a right to privacy and private property ought to be the philosophic guidelines in community design and development at all stages.

Nation wide housing policies have to be configured that allow effective implementation of rural housing and adequate infrastructure for individuals who fall outside large scale community projects. In our rural areas agrarian workers must have access to housing provisions through intermediary financials services and construction implementation agencies coordinated at district and local levels to deliver housing needs.

Coordination at all levels will ensure that resource waste is minimised and resource use is optimised through efficient and monitored management approaches. Tangible project choices designated to have long term value is what is being aimed for. Loans must be transferable or repurchasable by financial institutions. Real values of properties must be increasing through time, thus quality rather than broad rendition should be guideline in this area of development. No government investment into infrastructure development will be a waste where it can be helped, full value must be redeemed, government projects must have highest desirability at all levels because governments are elected to act in lieu of the populace, to it manages in its interest of collective responsibility and as such resources must yield constant value added benefit.

A community must necessarily drive economy, houses with pre-installed refrigerators, cooking stoves and ovens, ease of acquisition of information and entertainment media components and equipments means that local assembly plants integrated into community industrial zones and the need for re-quipping households with new equipments for pre-installed basic units for cooking, storage and washing ensures that employment from old equipment disassemble and reprocessing as well forwarding for raw materials for more efficient equipments every decade will become now, not only community renewal efforts but also essential aspects of sustaining local economies through creation of easy markets for manufactured products. Economies are carefully staged plans that must be managed to remain sustainable over long term. Again we are open to additional contributions as to how to widen scope of these areas of our development agenda.

Community maintenance must again come into focus as an area that must be all defined, planned and executed, many projects fail because they lack long term maintenance while mediocre projects remain far beyond projected periods of viable existence because proper maintenance is enabled.

Proper and long term project maintenance is not an issue of a culture or a lack thereof but a pragmatic approach to job creation and job maintenance. Maintenance provides where properly planned and realised life term employment and ensures that communities can adapt to changes and renew themselves through proper care. It also means that rent paid for maintenance and aesthetics are properly used and made directly beneficial to a community and its inhabitants.

Employment generation is a tricky area for every government, governments do not and cannot pull out jobs from thin air but must exercise several choices, among which are direct investment to bring manufacturing and service jobs, enhancing local resources use through processing, build heavy industries to provide engines of economic growth from an industrial perspective, creatively open avenues of socio-economic activities that create sustainable employment, widen scope of existing activities to encompass wider and deeper perspectives to increase demand for labour and brain power, passing legislations that allow greater incentive for private and external interests with capital to invest in our economies and ensuring that infrastructure maintenance, priorily mentioned and re-emphasised is properly constituted at multiple layers of nation and community to be sustainable, taxable employment medium.

What this means is that we ought to think of adding value and dignity to certain tasks that must necessarily be performed to keep our communities attractive and allow those who are interested in those areas of work to perform their task with ease and at utmost efficiency. Replacement and use of technology and equipment can easily and significantly change hard and burdensome chores to desirable employment forms.

We live in a nation where even burial places ought to be re-planned and made orderly to be appealing resting places for our lovely departed, if such issues are not brought up for consideration, planning and review they will never be attended to. Why is there such a great difference between a church burial hundreds of years old, a military resting place for servicemen and a community operated plot. We need to bring order and planning to every area of our community and nation that resonates with a well coordinated national expectation rather than peripatetic individual expressions of idealisms that are at discordance with carefully evolved area development plans.

To ensure that as intelligent humans we reflect that intelligence, aesthetically, in our living and working spaces and environments. How about increasing land use by encouraging crematoriums, is this culturally too shocking or are we sophisticated enough to perceive its positive values?

As populations increases and pressures rises on limited space, it is only proper planning and implementation that will ensure that we additively continue to improve our life qualities across a broad spectrum.

Nation’s under good leadership with a determination to push barriers of existing possibilities have made possible projects that have changed previously dismal face of nations all over our world, in our own ways if all our waste waters were cleaned and channelled to a central collection point can they become treated rivers that drives power generation for a community of a hundred thousand, can such reprocessed primary resource find a source of verification, testing and implementation, in an intelligent world, where nature has shown as a path we know that we need to maximise our resources at every stage and level.

Presently sewerage treatment is almost non existent. However, unless we treat and purify used water and return it to river systems whatever value and contribution they make as flowing water sources will not be attained. We need to be efficient in scarce resource use, such cleaned water are better employed when cleaned and re-discharged into stream and river systems rather than allowed to be contain in a million underground cisterns with questionable impact on overall quality of ground water.

Focusing on water and its use, should our river systems dispose such vast drinkable waters into oceans or should at least 50% of this good water become exportable commodities piped to Sahel regions, outlandish but inconceivable, I don’t think so. What do you think?

In our expectations we need to curtail what is feasible in a loosely guarded realm of possibilities and work to realise those, we need to work intelligently not only by mere brute force, we live and work assumes larger part of our adult lives, our work lives ought not be drudgery but carefully planned can be a daily existence of bliss and why not?

Our modern lifestyle is an artefact of collective mind seeking improvements and adding values at myriad interfaces of human physical and material existence, we intend to maximise its abilities through infusion in communities we intend to develop that these communities generate sustainable needs that can drive our socio-economic reality.

Our public transport systems need to be revamped, we need major urban public transport systems that are capable of moving large masses at a time without generating traffic jams, comfortable and aesthetically appealing enough for many to prefer them as modes of transport to expensive alternatives that are environmentally less friendly. We need and we intend to develop urban light rail systems and work to develop a West African regional super speed rail corridor systems of supportive interdependent flow incorporating as many countries as are willing to participate. We have a need to fulfil these pressings demands and we intend to fulfil these needs.

Private investments cater to particular interest where there is a possibility of making good returns on investment, which necessarily must be encouraged and adequate room created in policies to safeguard investments that add value to system whole. Progress at one level means progress at all levels, we believe in successful entrepreneurship and desire a nation of successful adventurers. Get wealthy in your business drives and create opportunities that add value at a wider dimension without undermining system value. It has been done and we will encourage it by every means possible.

We intend to provide a viable platform for individual success for every person in this nation, reorganised system reinvestment of resources will not only stream line certain activity sets but becomes  basis for sustainable employment generation.

By providing school kitchens properly managed and supervised to both government and private catering businesses we not only ensure that no child will ever sit in class with growling stomach for lack of breakfast and lunch but ensure that knowledge acquisition has been enabled on a better platform for long term value ends. It means parents are less worried about quality of food children consume and lowers risk of food and water borne disease among our youth and children. Multiple benefits at one decisive stroke of creative decision making by government and citizens deserve this.

The economic benefits in sustenance of local agricultural production and food processing can only begin to be imagined.

By restructuring tax distributions by ensuring direct benefits each child will have a monthly stipend that ensures that no child will be denied access to sufficient basic pocket money for childhood needs, neither will poverty be a frustration driving parents to desperate ends.

To achieve this we need to increase number of healthy adults in sustainable employments and we intend to work to create those employments avenues with many sectors.

Our economy is a refined game of cycling resources, monetary and non-monetary, increasing complexity by adding factor variables by way of organisations and capital owners providing means of employment which collectively contributes to our collective well being.

This requires both resourcing to traditional employments avenues as well other sustainable forms of long term engagement that can be formalised and integrated into national economic systems, where resources are made available to position these individual and group efforts and make them contributors to national economic sustainability. It requires a close interplay of doves and hawks to ensure that opportunities are equally matched by responsible discharge of duty and requirement.

Governments are elected to ensure sustenance of their nations and its communities by activating through creative engagement resources available to them to ensure improvement and future sustainability of nations and communities. There are no hard and fast rules as to how these is achieved however, employing all vast resources at a nation’s collective capacity to provide adequate housing, education, employment and means of power and energy, health, transportation, safety and social stability for each and every person is an expected end result of government’s activities. It is an end activity that is fulfilled by creating effective economic medium for efficient production, service provision and manufacturing at as many identified interfaces as possible to satisfy local, internal needs and sell to external markets to generate monetary wealth to run national development. How well, a nation is able to maximise its natural endowment to make its economic machinery a self driven long term sustainable endeavour underlies success or failure of that nation and its successive governments.

There are challenges, without doubt, there are frustrations, and stumbling blocks to what at beginning stage of conceptualisation may seem easy and ought to be done quickly.  There are good projects taking to long to complete, some we may never see fulfilled in our lifetimes, yet this is human nature to dream of what is inconceivable and make it a reality sui generis.

We have been blessed to have many reference points from others experimentation in less ideal circumstances to adapt and polish to higher value points for implementation; we are inheritors of a human intellect of prodigious proportions, information and intellectual resources to consult for our benefit. What cause do we have for delay and procrastination?

Our times are heady times for facing up to challenges to create theme parks of highest aspirations within which we live in pleasant thankfulness. We ought and we must create a place we will love to live in and cherish all our live, let us make it a reality. It is not fanciful to desire to live at highest possible level of qualified existence neither shall a government waste limited resources on projects other than those that merit highest quality. You do agree with me?

Our collective resources are limited and we intend to make value out of them at every step of their employment to collective benefit.

There is a politics that serves its own interest, which is to serve misguided persons assuming positions that they ought not occupy.

Then there are seriously intentioned governments that have a responsibility and obligation to their electorate to plan and deliver projects projected according to a time table. A functional grouping of willing minds who have presented their charter to an attentive audience, which in this case is a nation and is held bound to deliver those promises. Such responsible governments cannot make fanciful meaningless promises; they have to engage in evaluative considerations, of an exhaustive nature that sets idealism within a parameter of a certain achievable reality.

Governments in developing nations have a strong role as regulators of a growing system that must be harnessed to ensure compliance lest meaningful effort is wasted for wrong and inappropriate execution.

We see this all around us, basic foundations of community development are lacking, as individuals, we are sensitively conscious of these yet at leadership levels there seems to be a total eclipse of reality. One begins to ask questions for which each and every one seeks answers, yet for which governments which are responsible for their implementation seem to lack awareness of-

Where and when are communities nation wide going to have sewerage processing systems?

When is there going o be 100% potable water, after all we live in tropical regions with major rivers spilling fresh sweet river water by billions of gallons into a salty sea?

When do we turn our water resources into exportable commodity?

Where are regional and Mission Universities?

And on and on these questions go-

Are these daunting tasks or a joy for us to make possible these things because we lack them in our lifetimes? Are these not reasons why men work to build nations in our times? If the answer is yes, then what are we doing?

Now, pose these questions to your representatives in government who you pay with your taxes, good pay packets so they can focus on their responsibilities to deliver your needs and engineer progress. When you pose these questions and they cannot answer don’t elect them into offices of responsibility because they are not cut out to fulfil your expectations, seek those who have answer as to what, how and when and hold them to their promises come election time.

When they provide answers hold them to task during mid term elections. They owe you, who pay their wages and provide them with creature comforts to ensure that all of government machinery work by collective engagement or coercion to deliver results expected by their populace. Do you agree with me?

Don’t seek and expect vacuous promises, seek projects that bring meaning to your community and ensure they are realised. These are your expectations and when they are not met find out why not and how they can be realised and most importantly when these projects are projected to be completed and then hold them to their promises. You are duty bound to seek and be informed.

Such that it is no longer why is no body doing something about this obvious, but when, how and by whom it will be done. You as citizens of communities and a nation are powers to whom responsibility of government devolves not vice versa. If they don’t perform get rid of them.

In this era of mass communications let your representatives have web sites, blog sites, where you can pose your question and let their answers be open to every ones assessment. From president to village representative elective, they have a responsibility and it is to open communication channels where their discharge of duty is accessibly review-able and conditional to public approval.

Let their answers be final attestable sources rather than journalistic musings inasmuch as these add value to collective information needs. It can be done, therefore let it be fulfilled, so that no one is hiding behind spider webs of befuddlement, deceiving those they represent. A political post is open to constant review, if you as a person are not cut out for it, then, be an advisor to those who can take its heat and exposure.  Do you agree with me?

To represent your nation an its citizenry is not a task for the light minded, it is a calling forth of matured and experienced minds who have something to give by way of acute managerial skills and administrative capabilities in proactive engagement to add value to their systems.

It is not a focus on any individual persona playing to a gallery of ignorance but a responsibility to work to lift your community and nation through great sacrifice and commitment. Your community can enable you through a comfortable pay, pension and provisions so that you can be fully dedicated in your task, reciprocate their favour by being a good leader. Each one working with your government has a leadership responsibility of blazing new paths and finding creative solutions to challenging issues.

This is why we advocate a national think tank base, a viable, idea acknowledging, idea resourcing centre, which will seek for and record and make ideas available for implementation consideration from all sources.

What this means is a national development think tank base with regional and district offices where ideas are collated, accredited and open to public review and a decision for implementation on each idea garnered either through individual and corporate support or direct government implementation as indicated. Open political systems are expected to create open idea exchange forums where idea can be easily and willingly presented by citizenry and those interested in creating a developmental and economic base for production in that community to present their ideas and seek support for idea implementation. For developing nations there is more need to resource for idea that can drive development to be integrated into predictable structures under consideration for implementation and those under implementation. It is up to a society, a community and its leaders to create a practicable and functional forum for these idea harnessing and management process at several layers within overall social construct. Ideas gathered, followed through to execution and accessed on merit of value added to system whole in short and long term basis.

These centres become an intellectual and creative forum where ideas can be presented and critically reviewed, where students sent out on government scholarships have a forum for presenting their value ends to a nation to give account of community resources spent to educate them and there is no end to what such idea collative centres can mean to nation development. They eventually become feeder to a National Development Institution coordinating professionally national development.

Simply put, when a person makes an enquiry why are their open gutters? Why are all electricity cables not put underground?, there must be a professional body capable of harnessing such simple but system defining questions for further consideration and ultimate implementation. These are greatly appreciated sources of system changing ideas.

Every time we are faced with problems, what it implies in its fundamental exigency is that we have to redo projects that we poorly implemented, which means we are faced with a choice of letting ugly scars on our collective landscape remain or re-build and create employment avenues in that process with added benefits of improving overall quality of life. We must obviously not be afraid or hesitant to redress and rebuild no matter how extensive.

What matters is, planning projects that can successfully be completed rather than allowing decadent states to prevail where grandiose ideas, lightly considered and set into motion, cause a bleed in collective wealth with no sight to their benefit to system overall. We are given intelligence to constantly improve not be complacent accepting mediocrity as inevitable, that is unintelligence and a waste of our mental resources.

Why is a nation facing the Atlantic lacking a Naval and Oceanography tertiary institute? To who are such question posed and who is capable of turning into a project to be implemented.

A president can handle only so much information, there is a need for a professional body for idea harnessing and idea processing and they must be paid from public purse and made responsible for every question and idea brought to their attention on a publicly accessible information website.

Education must assume a highly digitised support format that ensures easy access to collective body of knowledge available to human specie at each and every individual level, this is a responsibility developing nations must necessarily face and resolve by providing necessary infrastructure that enables easy access to collective intellectual database available for all of humanity to use productively. We intend to face and make this possible.

There is no continent more disposed to democracy than Africa. Africa is naturally suited to democracy, our traditional inheritance, varied and myriad our multiplicity of cultures, our unique cultural dispositions in multiple forms packaged as nations requires a central modulation of power that is determined by masses and majority to avoid giving undue emphasis to cultural identity related sources rather than a government chosen by majority to administer in collective interest. It is a unique disposition which calls for an active and effective community politicisation and engagement in resource management and development, such that each is directly involved in its community outcome.

Decadence and decay in thought, idea and construct must be eliminated giving way to a freshened environment of modernisation that adds broad value to human physical and material existence through adoption of innovative strategies of modern influence.

Our system of citizen identification should be enhanced to ensure that every single soul is accountable for, this will ensure that government can provide and monitor system sustenance provisions for each and every citizen as well ensure that every individual is contributing to system whole, this can only be done through an effective citizen identification system electronically linked and accessible at all points of need and use to enhance quality of existence and make it easier for socio-economic transactions to be fulfilled with ease. Again its details while easily conceptualised are without limitations in its enhancements and contributions across aboard are welcome from all.

Identification goes beyond identity cards, this are necessary but it ensures that agencies can trace and ensure that benefits accruing to each citizen is easily enabled and differential supports put in place to marginalise gaps in socio-economic states are successfully implemented. It ensures that no one is hidden from agencies whose purpose is to help citizens maximise their full potentials.

Economic transactions can be enabled through fully electronic medium if identification systems are fully and comprehensively enabled through secured connections nationwide integrating into a continental network. This attained, will enable a central database storing secured identification information for every person, at community, national and continental level.

Energy requirements for national development is always of critical consideration, we may still develop some hydro projects but as far we know contribution from that sector is limited, we need to begin given a lack of functional alternatives including nuclear power plants that can create atomic reactions to generate steam to drive or generators. Of course proper disposal of nuclear waste is of primary concern and consideration, however, others have blazed this path and we can learn from them.

Energy production like every other element of value added discovery is a process in constant development with new ideas and forms of energy production gaining breakthrough on a global scale. Implications are that our country needs to be open to taking cue and adding new forms of community and unit housing energy production that are environmentally sensitive and less damaging set against other options.

Bio focused energy production options as well as traditional reliable energy sources have to be continued developed to enable our communities to have adequate energy sources to power their developmental and consumer needs.

An agenda must postulate and present carefully detailed and verifiable means of indicating how those postulations can be fulfilled, such that an agenda presented not only gives hope to a people but also becomes a verifiable benchmark to ascertain how a political party has performed within a time scope. This implies that postulations matched with how they are actually realised within a carefully grafted time table becomes a verifiable means of ascertaining performance of a government.

If a party presents a project for urban rail transport, then it must in due course present maps and project implementation within scope of existing capabilities of a nation or its resource acquisition thereof.

A public sensitised to its democratic obligations and responsibilities must necessarily, simple put, insist on follow through of proposals that puts pressure to ensure that initiatives are activated that bring worthy ideas to completion.

Who best to put pressure on government than those who stand to benefit directly from projects fully implemented?

How about an active press keeping tabs on promises made by those seeking leadership positions and responsibilities? A constant reminder, publicly displayed to remind elected that promises are made and these must be fulfilled. Reminders run on a daily basis on all major newspapers as a means of keeping governments on course of responsible discharge of their duties?

Existing developments plans in implementation must be followed to completion for any and all things began are for common benefit and not identifiable per se with a person or a party, they are for a nation, a society and a community. Continuity must be engendered and nurtured in government sponsored developments to ensure that what has been approved by parliament to be of benefit to a community is successfully completed.

Old projects planned as foundations for national growth must be dusted up and reviewed for lack of some of essential provisions thereof have undermined national development on full benefits of other projects planned on assumption of completion of those prior projects.

Development is a systematic step wise process interfaced with jumps at some levels as systems shift intellectually and technologically, everything has a value that must be fully realised. We intend to review and ensure compliance.

As governments invests into different sectors of our economy we are not only keeping our country functional but we also exercising foresight to fact that government is claiming investable resources in a future where private investment will command a significant portion of our economic activities, where government is actively co-operating to provide sustainable economic mediums that are self functionally profitable to sustain their employees and contribute to tax base.

Economic evolution requires that government must necessarily carve meaningful participation spheres for itself as it provides supportive legislative framework and integrated structures to widen scope of private investment.

Government’s efforts in this area will not necessarily be competitive, even though a healthy dose of competition sharpens economic edge, it ought to be complementary of non public sector investments.

Government investments must be sound and have tenacity for future benefits, we govern not for ourselves but to ensure a heritage for our children and our future.

Shoddy projects, poor investments and meaningless dispensation of our collective wealth do not add to this awareness. When government invests in infrastructural development, these projects must necessarily be as good as it can get for, for projects of this nature must have long term durability and appeal to ensure that it continues to contribute to society far into foreseeable future.

How a nation devises and successful executes its  economic policies is more often than not a realisation of our creative strength to adapt to fit our needs from a global store house of possibilities as well as local ingenuity to generate long term economic activity out of our obvious and hidden needs, formalising these activities and structuring them into existing frameworks to become added boosters of economic growth.

There are no hard and fast rules, whatever can have long term demand whether existing or created in presence of product or service is a means for long term employment. If these ideas can be seen as gems nurtured and formalised as regular means of employment, then we have created a job area that can very well become an industry finding manifold expression across our nation and over its borders.

When a nation excels in something of economic, industrial or technological breakthrough, its effort does not necessarily stop at its borders, there is a whole world out there to be served and provided for and with potential benefit at a handsome profit which is investors reward in extending service and product to consumers, a ready external market is always welcome boost to entrepreneurial initiative.

There are per se no low income jobs and no low income areas; we have to aspire to create sustainable income employment sources that over time must expand to be profitable enough to ensure that employees enjoy high income which is an indication of corporate and organisational success.

Quality of life is dependent on how much a monthly income can purchase a nation that produces a significant percentage of all its needs from local resources in local industries can ensure at a fairly high degree of control and predictability as to how its economic machinery operates to determine individual quality of life. Which condition gives impetus to an internally driven socio-economic machinery of efficient productivity to cater for basic needs of a nation and its populace. Imports are supplementary additions to this internal productivity and it is a necessity for national identity.

That is what it should be and must be. There is no labour that is dishonourable when it is to add value to humans and improve their welfare. Let that understanding permeate system whole! We complement one another as we contribute as a collective to ensuring a functional society, each persons contribution is equally important as the next and we owe it one to another to remember that we our sisters and brothers keepers, just as they are same to us.

There is world out there inviting possibilities to widen and strengthen our economy, depending on what perspective we assume of that external world we can embrace it as world of humans willing to help us sustain our society and engage international participation to strengthen local economy far beyond what is presently available.

We have to proactively seek and where necessary finance businesses to stabilise internal economies in our territory. No one is going to make it happen if we don’t push for it we have to force and grasp and tease out potential values wherever such possibilities exist.

What we lack we can ask for help to provide, in real terms we can create jobs through local manufacturing and assembly rather importing complete products. For global brands who establish assembly and manufacturing plants, their profits still are earned, for us it is a way of ensuring that hundreds of thousand of families have employed parents engaged in worthwhile employment.

Employment creation requires a multi frontal strategy evolution and no one approach should be under emphasised. We can only create those jobs we creatively enable or we can continue to assume that we are an agrarian nation where less than 20% of employed national capacity is meaningfully contributing to sustainable agriculture. Beyond tilling the soil are a myriad of supportive, industrial activities that altogether adds value to existing quality of life and broadens spectrum of activities in our economic end game. We intend to do that but it also requires engagement of each and every one of us, no one can sit idle, waiting for a phantom government to make it possible, the government is the nation and everyone must be engaged in ensuring that those who are set at points of leadership do not accept and foist failure on the masses.

Governments ought not invest to sustain deplorable and non viable states, so property for a few years can be subsidised to ensure that training and educational programs can integrate effectively those being reinstituted to be capable of bearable full cost of worthy investments to improve quality of life style, that means that there is driving effort to provide short term intermediary provisions to ensure that citizenry dependent of subventions to stabilise themselves in the long term, remain at an altogether low level of perennially dependence on government. Government must prepare all without exception to improve on their skills and education to be fully capable of becoming valuable assets of national economic productivity; that is government’s responsibility, the fulfilment upon which long term progress is grounded.

The fully incapacitated will and must be taken care off by government programs that provide trained personnel to assume responsibility for those who cannot take of themselves. These are to be considered rehabilitation centres in various guises. Every able bodied person in a nation must be positioned to deliver full service to sustain a nation’s growth unencumbered. It is along these lines that persons ought to be positioned into areas where they have a desire to contribute and when in those positions must be within organisational structures that enable meaningful productivity to sustain adequate remunerations.

There are no perfect time tried approaches, each approach at managing a society, is a process of adaptive response and proactive intermediation to react to changes and varying needs of time and situation. Likewise one expects that ideas must evolve to respond to changing times and their demands. Flexibility and ability to make changes that enable sustainability rather than an inflexible believe in a inviolable way, is preferred and must be pursued.

In efficient economies they are never enough human resources to go round, a nation fully conscious of its priorities will hardly have excess capacity in terms of human labour and given its value worth will ensure that each life is productively oriented to add value to socio-economic productivity. How? Is what governments have to configure and make realisable from cradle to grave for every soul under a responsible government.

A government has to appreciate potential value imbued in its human populace and must work to turn that potential to real values powering social stability and economic growth. How this is done is simply time tested and well tried, education and training and a stabilisation of family, families remain a cornerstone of social stability.

We must develop communities, involving our churches that integrate worthwhile family values into supportive community structures, to ensure that both young and matured persons can be educated and trained in stabilised environments to discover their true values and become contributors to national development. Where past efforts has been successful in this regard its benefits and impact is obvious to all and sundry.

We who are herein gathered and can listen and interpret this message are direct indicators of what proper harnessing of human capacities and its development relates to national development and growth. We intend to expand and capture every person, as a national resource of inestimable value to be properly cultivated and made productive and will work intensely to ensure that developed human resources have adequate avenues to be productively engaged in meaningful employment, adding value to national growth and prosperity.

Developing nations have far too many demands in terms of activity spheres to be engaged in to attain equilibrium in national development to have human resources to spare. Nations that have not attained to this level of awareness are functionally incapacitated to appreciate their full value worth.

Every administration elected has taken office in a continuum of elected representatives, and are adding to what has previously been attained by past governments and we intend to leave definite frameworks for continuation for those following after us. It is to be understood that governments elected are a continuum that come to add, improve and where necessary bring to cessation destructive practices of their predecessors and continue whatever is of collective benefit that previous governments have begun and achieved.

An electoral process offers choice of whose agenda is best seen as meeting primary needs aspired to by a nation at any time and place, it is not a break off of ideas that lack effective integration and must under intelligent considerations be amiably negotiated rather than be society dividing politicisation, this understanding must seep and permeate body politic such that a nation is continually progressing rather than negatively split along party and ideological differences. Lets us accept that like a football game our club preferences does not make eternal enemies just spicing friendly competitiveness. Are we agreed on that?

Transportation is central to economic development and public transportation remains an area awaiting significant development. Existing urban public transport remains in domain of mainly poor standard mini busses. There is  a need to pool resources of all those operating these mini vans to develop a reliable bus system employing larger sized busses, with improved comfort levels and more importantly safety provisions. In addition to ensuring that significant and regular employment is generated through public transport, it ensures a regularity of timely and assured service that is presently lacking.

Urban inter city trains service and mid distance inter city trains are a necessity, being environmentally more friendly, driven by electricity and capable of carrying larger numbers that existing forms of transportation and must begin operations in shortest possible time.

Massive redevelopment of central business districts in larger towns and cities must come under consideration. Our cities reflect our view of life and our capabilities as intelligent beings appreciating beauty in architecture. We must renew and replant by redeveloping our crumbling and aged city centres to complement effusive individual projects as well as re-assure our national pride of what we believe in ourselves.

Our cities express that pride and must be given full capability to bring forth, expressively, our talents in arts and architecture, design and planning to redefine our cities, giving expression to an ideal worthy of architectural renditions. A nation must be open to worthy ideas for private sector development projects and government initiated efforts to enliven our core socio-economic activities.

We need to conceptualise and believe a bright hopeful future, learning from our past mistakes and believing in your ability to pool our individual gifts, capabilities and drives to achieve dreams at individual and national level. No effort is too little, no aspiration too small, rather let your aspirations be grand and let your efforts be guided by wisdom.

We seek not to micro manage our little wealth but to build a propensity for generating possibilities that change for all times our dynamic orientation, we seek to bound and leap and catch up with front runners rather be also runs.

Words, that light fire in our spirit and rouse our slumbering souls to strive to achieve beyond existing possibilities. Just as individual believe in a possibility of better quality of existence, nations ought seek to realise greater dreams, worthwhile dreams of great achievements in our lifetimes.

Those same idelas and believe in a worthy existence elsewhere that push young men to cross deserts, and swim oceans to seek those ideals must likewise be a burning fire in the hearts of our collective belief system in turning our pieces of planetary Eden into an earthly paradise. Places where determined minds have pushed barriers of impossibilities and given rise to achievements that we dream of.

Now, is when our dreams must begin to gain life quality and transform our reality. Do you agree with me?

We have to be creative in job creation, in developing means of employment, we have to give added value to what we take from nature and we have to ensure recycling is a closed circuit fulfilled so that we preserve cleanliness in our environment.

We have to, as much as possible, manufacture and assemble or basic needs, what we can we must and continue to work towards full capability in acquiring machinery and technical expertise and make up for short term gaps in meeting total domestic consumption through import, import is not a substitute for local productivity it is merely complementary.

For any defining industrial and technological break through, there are situation specific and local additives that are capable of adding long term implement-able values that our economy must take advantage of.

In software and computers we know how open source applications have made possible through individual and group ingenuity additions that have expanded scope of specific user applications, this very well applies across every area of technology and industrial development it is an element of adaptation to use and needs that extends immeasurably any breakthrough anywhere on earth in human intellectual breakthrough.

We have to increase our adaptive use of what is accessible to improve our quality of existence. First we have to articulate ideas meaningfully, turn those worthy ideas into projects and in implementing projects change significantly how we live and how we expect to live.

A good government is one that does not make any assumptions but is open constantly verifying unexplored options, giving each idea full consideration, bringing in interested external parties to assist domestic effort, afterall, there are many great minds out there who assume a planetary perspective and a specie awareness. Assumptions are of little value if they keep systems at lower than possible levels of performance capabilities. Good assumptions are those that open possibilities enabling harnessing of palpably inexhaustible energy forms to transform into beneficial end products for community benefit.

An effective government is one that communicates meaningful to those it governs. Governments should not make assumptions about how information is communicated to those governed. Information must infiltrate and saturate a system through effective delivery media. Ensuring that communication is delivered through a medium that ensures 100% infiltration becomes a task of system management.

In former times a radio diffusion box ensures that every one will hear hourly news sometime during each twenty four cycle. Could 100% access to internet access ensures that these technological tools serve multiple purposes of education, information and entertainment. If yes, then how each person is enabled accessibility becomes a task to be met by capable governments?

In these era of ease information accessibility would a ministry or government department for information and communication not operating an easily accessible blog site for mobile and internet accessible questions and answers not yield a better and quicker awareness format for a government to provide accurate information to an inquiring public?

Now, let’s make it work and make it a dependable source of government keeping pulse of its governed and public, ensuring prompt answers to their questions, and resolving worries, from information generated and provided from totally reliable sources; offices of government.

Reformulating local industries into associations and equipping them to perform at higher levels of productivity cannot be overemphasized. What is the exact difference between a local carpentry workshop multiplied a thousand times and a refined furniture purveyor such as IKEA is mainly organisational skills. It is this organisational skills and the lack thereof that accounts for a substantial part of under development. Cross nations, planetary wide, many needs and their fulfilments are simple, within capability of realisation of every organised group of humans and when properly ordered and implemented add a defining value to communities. For developing nations getting a grasp of wholesome widespread organised implementation more  than anything else is a challenge most leaders find difficult to grapple and bring under control.

Government has to be a facilitator that allows aggregation of good ideas for effective implementation. A good government always benefits and even low taxes from functional businesses are better than idle youth wasting away for lack of coordination for effective integration into economic machinery for system development and sustenance.

Government does not necessarily have to repossess local farmlands to implement successful agricultural projects, by providing seeds, tools for tilling and organising local associations planting similar crops over locally owned lands a huge plantation is made possible with little distortion of existing stability.

Likewise to improve a decrepit transport system does not mean denying employment to those who run local decrepit mini busses rather; these drivers are retrained and made stock owners in newly developed transport services. Such agility in re-conceptualising to fit local needs where improvements are made to add value and embrace local populace and their efforts pay off better than an attempt to run over small persons by aggressive, bullying and over enthusiastic government plans. Governments exist to promote interest of local populace not to antagonise them.

Our educational institutions must be proactive in pushing barriers and boundaries and defining newer fields of possibility. Expanding beyond what exists in each generation; there are no limitations to what spheres of intellectual engagement a sustainable educational system can evolve to keep abreast with changing times, needs, awareness and developments.

As aspiring leaders we seek not only to lay forth an agenda for implementation, we seek to bring improvements in physical structure, create policies that can activate socio-economic growth but se also seek to preach, to inspire, to motivate an inner drive of each and every one of you, you are individually what constitute and define a nation, we want to tap into your inner channels of every, awaken excitement for these times in which you leave, that you may mould it and make of it interesting times and no one contribution is less worthy than another, each and every one working together, believing in a common purpose that you can make it better than you found it is what it takes.

Government planning taking a cue from our recent past of short lived success and long mediocrity leading to failed projects and government capitalised investments, require that plans must detail how projects can be made responsive to change by anticipating likely change scenarios and adaptive pressures to which such projects must respond agilely or in absence of effective responses fail.

How failure and challenges can be dealt with and overcome must be an essential element of project planning. Projects implemented have an estimated life time, when projects mature should they be allowed to expire and how are they dismantled in that case without living visible scars on our landscape. Alternatively, if certain projects are to be sustained beyond expected norm of viability, how and by what means.

Physical infrastructure must be renewed to remain functionally optimal. Therefore to whom responsibility is assigned and by what resources regularly replenished these maintenance process that renews is attained must be carefully elaborated and publicly acknowledged.

Maintenance enables long term sustenance more importantly it keeps many employed in ensuring long term viability.

Not only must projects need to run for a life time, some need to be curtailed to make way for further developments elsewhere, keeping a balance between what to keep and what to bring down to necessarily give way for more beneficial implementation is an active requirement of effective community management. These are critical areas to be elaborated in government investments in whose absence resources are often wasted.

Government holds in trust what is common to all and attempts to add value that contributes to each and all under its governing responsibility. Creating value at times and for developing nations oft times building industries and industries areas that are nurtured and can be sold for profit to independent sector interests. There is no conflict between these to activities, what is critical is what yields utmost benefit to those being governed. To pass on matured industrial investments to private sector is an indication of astute investment and that ought to be primary and principle of privatisation of government investment.

Multilingual education from primary level through to tertiary level is a benefit to highest quality labour development of a nation and its subjects. Africa’s colonial heritage endows it with English, French, Spanish and Portuguese as easily integrated languages for acquisition in our school systems, to let this opportunity slip by under mines a potential value, which necessarily must be used. When a nation is properly governed its citizens may travel abroad but their heart is in their nation of birth and no matter how it is economically analysed they are benefits to their nations of origin as well as being resources to our world. Which side labour favours in terms of spending its productive years is an indication of opportunities that exist to employ available labour and at what beneficial cost.

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Man’s intelligence defines his capability to redefine his reality using mental tools of creative engagement with its environment.

Nations’ resources are energy streams that must be harnessed and channelled through appropriate performance enabling mediums to yield optimum value to national development.

A nation on cusp of defining its development and not quite getting a grasp, caught in a fluid of powerful stream of dynamism must define its intentions as a social philosophy of expectations set within an interpretable framework of expectations within which purpose and intentions can be assigned.

This ensures that from minor to major there is a framework that enables understanding of source of inspired creativity and medium for fulfilment.

What defines an ideal school, what should it necessarily constitute of and by what standards of deviation from norm ought to be accepted and tolerated. Does this exist in our collective mental idealisms as a taken for granted or it is situationally evolved and weighed against verifiable values and acknowledged as worthwhile?

In building nations and managing them through difficult eras of transition, leaders are oft faced with defining a sense of value of what is appropriate and verifying against an existing set of verifiable truths; a credible source of acknowledged good leadership practices and its results.

Quote – John Pawson’s scheme had a number of powerful contexts to negotiate, ranging from the existing structures on the site to historically based ideas of what a Cistercian monastery should look like. Key early questions centred on issues of where to break new ground and where to work within existing frameworks. The first task was to identify the functional and aesthetic values which define the core of Cistercian monastic life and then to generate the best possible expression of these core qualities, given the time, the place and the available means – the turn of the millennium, an abandoned farm with baroque components in rural Bohemia and the monks’ restricted budget.

The remarkable consistency of the Cistercian Order’s building programme is the result of a comprehensive blueprint drawn up in the twelfth century by St Bernard of Clairvaux. This blueprint not only laid out the various territories of the monastery, but was also specific its aesthetic requirements, placing emphasis on the quality of light and proportion, on simple, pared down elevations, restrained detailing and spatial clarity. Pawson’s aim has been to remain true to the spirit of St Bernard’s programme, expressing the Cistercian spirit with absolute precision, in a language free from pastiche, while introducing some new and distinctive vocabulary - the cantilevered cloister, for example, which has no precedent in Cistercian architectural history.

The many challenges of the Novy Dvur project reflect the truth that authentically simple environments are almost inevitably the outcome of complex architectural processes. Pawson’s scheme retains and restores the baroque manor house and creates three wings of entirely new architecture on the footprint of the old. The material palette is characteristically restrained, with plaster, concrete, timber and glass predominating. A quiet rigour is manifest at every junction, in the exactness with which glass meets stone, curve encounters plane and views are framed. In keeping with Cistercian aesthetic preoccupations, effects of light read as essential components of the fabric of the architecture, being used variously to add precision, drama and a sense of mystery to the experience of the spaces.

Nation’s need a powerful, defining leader not from a perspective of a tyrant or ruthless leader but a focused idealist who can exercise a constructive directive force of mutual engagement that gives a meaningful desire for ever increasing creativity to add value of long term value to a nation’s resources.

Our concept of life in strongly mediated by where we are born and how we live our early years and consequently adjustments are made as man becomes open to other possibilities. However, as specie there is a common understanding that intelligent life is a rarity and must be treasured and nurtured for its uniqueness.

It is also understood that intelligence bestows on humanity an ability to configure their environment to yield optimum value. If there were to be a logical link between former and later statement it is only to be accepted that humans ought to be living at best possible level of physical existence enabled in each era. Since humans are organised as societies depending on group coordination for defining social systems, it is often that a failure at some level of social chain interdependency may impact severely others in social interactive interdependency.

A leader’s call under this conceptualisation requires a mindset that appreciates a process of continual improvement along multiple fronts while acting as a referee to ensure proper conduct while modulating a balanced social supportive interdependency that minimises frictions at points of interaction.

There are many and tried and true approaches yet there also remains many untried approaches that allows a society to progress towards a totally encompassing goal of desired quality of life. What this desired quality of life is, is itself an idealism that must be defined and shared as worthwhile by all in society from youngest to oldest, since each category must be configured into social growth strategy of a community, a society and a nation.

At any phase of social evolution, what creates scarcity is not adequacy of what God has imbued his creation rather leader’s incapacity to realise options beyond parochialism of what a situational distress deems possible, If it were not so, what has been perceived as a sure sign of end times would not become a reflective ridicule of a future generation.

Believing that our socio-economic mechanism of social regulations can be adapted to match changing needs within a framework of reasonable possibility that will not in implementation radically change rules of social stability and create adverse circumstances of turbidity and instability leading to short term chaos, an essential awareness that progress can be negotiated without creating adverse social circumstances.

A nation is a palpable energy of possibilities pulsating, with, energy seeking a means of giving expression to its capabilities, capabilities that lie in talents to be unearthed, cultivated and turned into priceless treasures of human intelligence acting upon resources set in man’s planetary heritage to be discovered and make valuable material means and ends an acquired possibility. Leaders are those who structure society to tap into these energy sources and use their transformational values to bring desired ends to their nations.

A healthy nation is one that has created more opportunities for human engagement at all levels than there are humans and thus is open to absorb human resources from external locations to share in its resources and make this attracted human resources inputs to further add value to a socio-economic machinery performing at peak capacity.

Nations that are incapacitated by poor leaders who are not enable to harness and channel their potential energy into definitive channels for system benefit are lacking at many fronts not from a lack of resources, for resources are mind state finding expression in defined settings responding to unique situations and properly managed operate to maximise need fulfilments of their area of expressive rendition.

It simply means that beauty is evocative of its unique environment and can be made to have appeal across a broader front that its source of emergence. Material and physical development occur along a socio-economic perspective that reflects this artistic quality in that it must be made responsive to unique settings employing global resources where accessible and in our times, this accessibility is ever increasing.

Nations that cannot appeal and adopt, adapting for use, resources at this level of expanding accessibility are very much akin to those virgins who failed to fill their lanterns with fuel and carry extra in storage as told in the scriptures and missed a biblical wedding feast.

Failing nations are those who have not built continuity in their core system structure through predictability and suffer severe ruptures at every turn of leadership. Democracies for predictable change of leadership ensure that disruptions that distort progress at a fundamental level are under control and focus can be on steady approximation of set goals and idea realisations. This is central to success, it must be resolved and then ideas can be evolved for continuance in development.

What are desired ends of national development? It may vary for various expectations, however orderly existence that ensures a nation’s physical and non physical resource have adequate room for optimum interaction with its developed intellectual capacities to add optimum value various levels of physical, material and mental existence ensures that majority of people do not experience under utilisation in their generation of what nation and persons are capable of given optimum coordination through effective leadership.

Disparities between ideas and socio-economic management processes can undermine true values of leadership processes as regards coordination of a nation’s expectation with maximising resource use to approximate a desired state of nation’s operational efficiency.

This requires a need to categorise a tripartite separation of social management at highest level that a nation is employing its resources, through a process of development, discovery and application to eliminate areas of undesirability as presently pertaining, at a second level are politico-socio-economic modulator tools, processes and approaches established in predictable legislation to safeguard and ensure predictability. Finally, is individual level where choice exists, that each person has expansive room of choice, of where to integrate into collective medium for mutual benefit, here effective development at tiers one and two ensure that no one person can and ought fall outside their responsibility to ensuring system sustenance and improvement. At tier three are ample opportunities where choices are made as to how to contribute to systemic whole by individuals using resources made available and to be supplemented by their productive engagement in that evolved system.

Some nation’s respond to change faster than others not because they are richer but mainly because they are more organised and are constantly scanning developments globally to enable them infuse change that allows system efficiency through lower cost overall to their socio-economic systems. Operating at older less efficient levels of resource applications weigh down overall system development. Effective scanning of a global medium ensures that efficiencies are integrated early enough to buoy over laden inefficiencies.

Adaptive nations are capable of defining what technology and other social developments can benefit their system nationwide and have created by default economic systems freed from undue restrictions to allow discerning public to evaluate innovative infusions. Allowing private infusion of newer inputs with wider appeal acknowledged to a purchasing unrestricted consuming public.

Those with poorer organisational capabilities struggle to hold onto outdated modes of technology and system processes, considered from a broad consideration such nation’s fail to add value and endure burden of excess cost of shoring up tottering and failing values that undermine efficiency overall.

When there are reference to faces of poverty what is often being referred to are faces of human failure, a failure of leadership at national levels, inability to effectively aggregate core value to integrate human progress global wide into an effective supporting mechanism of inter community dependency.

International and regional governmental coordination bodies such as United Nations, African Union, NAFTA, European Union are working to ensure success in these areas, however, capability at national resource management contributes significantly to higher level coordination while these unions also become a support base for enabling national development through facilitating shared resources by union members.

For example, rational considerations will require that productive labour that has immigration paper work uncompleted would be registered and made an acknowledged element of economically successfully nations bordering poorer nations, to ensure that economically viability is not undermined by immigration department’s failure to manage borders. It also ensures that economically capable nations can keep accurate records of employed labour within their borders without threatening deportation for so long as such are economically, productively engaged. This will allow immigrant labour to be accessible to health and social provisions and accounted for and not an under class of shadowy non citizens supporting economies of countries they are illegally residing in. Simple solutions to natural dispositions require agility in leadership solution construct.

Earth is a shared responsibilities of all its intelligence to be managed to yield optimum benefit to its inhabitants, from isolated pockets this sense of shared responsibility has spread with increase in communication and interdependency, while there is no ambiguity that earth as a planet is most likely to outlive its biological mass including, given that it is an self renewing mass, humans. This awareness, ought to create a certain sense of sober humanness as to how the specie of humans threat one another. It is an awareness that can only optimise their earthly heritage in any era by coordinating to improve resource use at a more sophisticated level of operation than presently possible.

Nation’s value of chains of perceived future growth to enable participation in various aspects of their national economic development by external third party interests, whose interest is to benefit from a purely economic perspective requires a domestic effort to integrate stable tenure to any area of national development to which interest is being cultivated.

That implies integrated values in system development that assures a future viability for increasing acquisition of developmental resource input from any socio-technological investment to bolster economic sustainability.

Government structuring and establishing foundations of developments infuse a discipline that enables utmost unrestricted creativity from individuals and idea sources in a society. Structures, enable a medium of construct for utmost development of latent possibilities and a society is performing at its highest when talent that is imbued is enable a format inherent in predictable structures for unhindered expression.

This is in overall direction of expression of human progress. Positive developments are embraced by a population of open minded, conscious individuals, making unrestricted choices that hopefully is able to identify and support what is mutually beneficial and categorically requiring other ideas to make a more meaningful expression of how these ideas promote specie growth and progress.

Lessons on mass social failures in human progress are key indicators of what certain human actions or inactions thereof can lead to and become guides as to how to effectively manage nations and their resources.

Managing a nation’s resources is nothing more than defining mediums for effective utilisation through resource realisation of what can be resourced to sustain and expand social system viability from a perceived and desired perspective, with a clear understanding that systems are capable of expressing themselves at many levels in situ and dynamically exponentially.

Within any era and epoch set in meaningful time perspective, there are certain desired outcomes that must be defined, articulated as physical states of realisation and human and material resources instigated combinatorially to productively realise and make possible with eventual overall systemic gain.

Navigating complexities, blocks (mainly through lack of understanding of how to employ these provisions to ones benefit at national and regional levels), frustration of ease of integration into regional and international economic rules of socio-economic games that seem to slow development, there is one outstanding fact, which is, every grouping of humans under effective leadership can tap into accessible universal knowledge base to structure ideas and coordinate implementation using preponderantly local and easily available resources to significantly increase quality of physical existence of its human populace.

Improving quality of physical existence of a populace implies a direct individual improvement of life quality through overall accessibility to universally enabled provisions that in turn become catalyst of empowering individual initiative to add value at a more personalised level working in an integrated economic.

If economies thrive on profit then it logically follows that given long term projections anything that has a potential for feeding profit over a projected long term span stands to benefit system whole, given efficiency of overall system management.

Being able to create an interest at a point of initiation to interest primary investment in an nation becomes what effective leaders have to evolve as a management tool to continue to draw in external third party investments to bolster their economic growth and expand breadth of economically viable opportunities at individual level.

Governments have a responsibility to generate occupational activities of paid employment to create social stability, in this case work creation requires a circle of inner generated cyclic activity of production and consumption (use) that is tenable enough to ensure long term propensity for this social biased economic investments by a government. Where resource input is mainly locally originating as well then self sufficiency implies that long term sustainability is within adopted management strategies.

Creating cycles of economic self sufficiency absorbing resources from and feeding benefits into other cycles of integrated interdependency or sub sets of multiple activities converging on a national economic system that increasingly enables self sufficiency within a defined territorial integrity of unhindered access increases stability within that defined region, which nominally begins with a nation and can evolve into economic regions of shared interest and shared resources and hopefully a global integration.

Nations are human artefacts a deliberate sharing of defined portions of a unitary planet for social management convenience. What is more important to any individual human life? A meaningful life lived in a city state or a burden of affliction in super continental size nation who benefits its leaders and imposes severest restriction on its citizenry?

As far as human socio-economic and geo-political configurations are concerned and for that matter any socially organised effort to enhance social stability, these are serious games of management within limited albeit expanding scope of human understanding; how to share common resources and minimise strife capable of creating unimaginable destruction that consequently can undermine specie self sustenance.

Understanding mutual interdependency is a precondition to establish all efforts to integrate existing knowledge to improve human life quality, an effort that becomes easier to negotiate when overall socio-economic terrain is modulated and managed and socially engineered to be more even than valleys and depths of despair and unattainable mountain heights of rarity.

When all superficial superfluities of arguments that extol patches of stratified human groupings are exhausted what surfaces is a simple understanding that each man is his brother’s keeper and all must co-operate to enhance specie survival from a limited perspective.

Nature changes of a planetary proportion can be anticipated and protective measures set in place but when it is all said and done it is only a limited area of planetary capability that humans have full control over and there is much room for improvement from a coordinated global leadership dispensation.

Leaders are persons placed in positions of responsibility and are rewarded adequately or where incapable impose severe cost on those over whom they exercise leadership through their inadequacies of marshalling collective energy to yield whole system benefit.

A leader is an individual with idiosyncrasies that do not necessarily typify an entire nation or gathering of humans differently gifted yet how often do innocents have to pay underserved price of failed leadership and better still how many benefit when truly enlightened leaders realise dreams of improved quality of life for their populace.

Since humans necessarily must have a leader, since leadership role players coordinating human affairs for a specified period and like any task performers temporary occupants of highest seats of responsibility there must be a means of ensuring that leadership excesses have limited effects on citizenry when negatives outcomes dominate. Leaders who lead effectively not only improve a period but leave imprints of possibilities that can be adapted for other situations and periods.

A leader exerts, unobviated, a personal characteristics on how he or she manages a leadership role responsibility, what is critical and hopefully implemental is that these excesses when they are of a purely negative and non-beneficial nature to human interests are curtailed and held in check or where it is possible to ensure that persons that cannot yield benefit to community and society are not capable of weaselling their way into leadership role responsibilities. Since such persons only serve an interest that has nothing to do with improving collective benefit. Yet, there is a misconception of service to man, narrowly defined that often puts these destructive types in positions where they are least suited to occupy.

A leadership role responsibility does not impose any special powers or exceptions to role occupants than what ought to apply to all, exceptions that ensure that leaders perform their roles unhindered may be considered, yet not those that allow abuse of power and shirking of primary responsibility of role concerned. From a purely political perspective all power is framed within constitutional framework of rights and obligations and devolves automatically to those being governed. Where such constitutionality is absent or truncated, then leadership is immature and still evolving; a progressive process in development to ensure a collective obligated conferring of leadership.

While from a certain point of view, trade and our monetary economy are inconceivable of greater value than human life, from a more realistic perspective there is a sombre agreement that what we conceive as a sophisticated economy of currencies and eco-politico superiorities and inferiorities are nothing more than carefully coordinated games of resource sharing and resource management which is presently of such unsophisticated nature that priceless lives; rare intelligent lives have been sacrificed to allow some deluded sense of profitability to be acquired and considered primary to any individual, human interest.

For now, that might seem reasonable for those interests that manipulate social systems from a myopic perspective and perpetuate unnecessary human suffering that they may surfeit in greedy material over consumption. Such interest might not know any better and operate at a lower level of comprehension with regards to un-accessed possibilities in socio-economic possibilities. However, as human specie acquire more understanding and evolve to develop more sophisticated resource management strategies there is bound to be improved states of resource management that will permit global economic game to continue without perpetuating unnecessary suffering upon humans.

Change is consequent on action choices arising out of idea choices, what is seen as positive developments in human affairs at larger society levels are mainly due to choices made in awake of alternatives that may have lesser pleasant consequences.

Whether regions aggregate, see beyond differences and co-operate to generate stability and enhance their collective survival chances are choices made especially from presciently points of advantage or comparative to project are wider scope of possibilities within a framework of co-operation rather than isolation. Likewise, unless leaders make choices to make changes in how present economic game is managed humanity as always is at receiving end be it for good or negative ends.

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In considering what African leaders need to accomplish to create a centre of development stability, there is not much by way of hidden strategies for effective government other than realising that a human life is priceless and must be held in highest esteem in terms of how it enabled a decent existence quality.

Idea champions extolling a certain life quality expectation as a minimum cutting across national populace is a starting point, it enables a platform of what modernity implies nation wide and how to expect degrees of approximation to this.

High emphasis should be given to contained community developments, with communities enabled to decidedly operate, manage and govern limited areas with a high scope of improving quality within managed territories. This allows a more hands on approach and without doubt a more concerted effort to manage communities within definitions of expectations articulated from national leadership.

What this means is that idea projection from upper government levels must be defined in terms of urging communities to push and extend modernisation drive in enabling and sustaining significantly improved quality of life.

Resources must be identified within communities as well as coming as supplementary support assistance from national coffers. Communities that excel within a district and a region through effective identification and development of resources will stand to be prosperous while others less endowed will seek more creative approaches to community management efficiency or integrate and join more successful communities.

Global resource management as it has presently evolved through a yet unsophisticated monetary system is a rough, unrefined, left over of European middle ages civilisation playing catch up to a fast evolving domain of global interests; a group benefit instrument of suppression that benefits those who are capable of finding positions of favour under those who control means of production.

In which sense it has become a highly sophisticated tool of partial benefit that under utilises human value and resources especially in those regions of earth where it is poorly understood, inadequately implemented and slows efforts to maximise progress. Until a worthwhile alternative evolves to replace this greed foisted monetary control over access to planetary resources, earth’s intelligence will continue to be an exploited source of overall low operating intelligence.

This is not to say that intelligence suffers as a whole from our present monetary system, it is to imply that any evolved social management tool that undermines optimal value of life and suppresses its unhindered potential development is an indication of inadequacy that is sustained because of its temporary benefit to a ruling class who are not in a hurry to effect proper corrective measures to bridge its control ineffectiveness.

Noting what is an apparent flaw is not a call to arms to destabilise global monetary systems, it is a reminder of a need to bridge its inadequacy to make it a more effective socio-economic management tool. For developing countries it requires an intensive effort to minimise hindrances that it imposes while enabling them a wider room for evolving strategies to harness their internal resources to improve overall internal state of life quality for their populace.

Inter-nation cooperation requires zones of integration and interaction that ensure dependable resource exchange, where less dependence is developed and more internal dependability structured into a nation it will suffer less at this points of inter-nation interaction being less dependent on pressures arises from unfavourable third party interests.

What a nation defines as necessary to its self sustenance is consequence of idea projection of what that gathering of humans in a defined setting expect their creature state of physical and material existence to be. Thus, open systems in terms of global cooperation does not necessarily mean one way feeder system where less developed are fed by more developed, rather it is a gradual process of enabling less developed to life themselves through self-sustained effort to raise floors of their valleys of despair.

Our civilization is an idea structure coagulating through time streams to define a desired state or a failed state in absence of former, it is not necessarily at all times a process of undesirable being replaced by desirable though over extreme long terms that which undermines human worth will certainly be eroded by popular consensus to reject such, yet stronger forces of enforced obedience and manipulated states of tolerance for what is palpably replaceable by existing evolved options for fear of causing turbulence until a majority has eaten away at such impositions on collective to gain ascendance.

What this implies for developing nations is defining an idea pool that draws from a universal reference but fitted to unique needs with an effort to constantly operate at maximum efficiency. A system that under utilises its internal resources given that societies are fluid systems adapting, adopting and changing through time is imposing costs of poor management on its populace. Who defines optimum is nothing short of a collective aggregation of worthiness which is enabled full expression when systems allow open idea generation, idea assessment and idea integration.

There are legacy issues at stake here, development countries have inherited or plugged themselves into an economic system that was from its initiation configured outside their critical value needs and system stability consideration, it has proven to be nothing short of a long enduring pain at shoring up what is inevitably a collapsing structure of inadequacies as they struggle to integrate themselves into economic systems calibrated to exploit not enable evenness.

Is there a possibility of adopting beneficial inner evolved values of emerging economic system and patching into a global system of fairly stabilised beneficial resource management?

It is a worthy re-evaluation of existing and emerging thesis of economic redefinition of value computation that in setting humanity as its primary value to which every elemental, physical and material resource evolves to nurture as prime basis for system development. Can this re-conceptualisation of economic values evolve to become a stable economic structure for developing nation and continental development integrating a balanced global system refined and predictable, as far as African nations are concerned?

How can such an inner emergent approach evolve and how can it find comfortable accommodation with exploitative economies that are parochial, given high level of dependence that has been nurtured at points of co-operation and interaction between these emergent systems and more stable economic systems elsewhere?

Internal systems must be consistent with internal needs of nations with immense resources to employ to improve their internal states, given an existing external mode of what is possible, yet, how much of what is imported remains an open question. It is however, simply, understood that what cannot add value but strangulates must necessarily be replaced by more supportive system structures.

If socio-economics systems are processes aggregating through time to define eras and establish meaningful states then it follows that new sets of ideas can adopt aspects of existing principles and combine those preferences with grounded ideals to affect desired working of emerging social management processes.

Nations or human societies tend to accumulate excellence around sets of activities that may find their apogee independent of overall direction of society through time. What passes for national economic management in most development nations is a purse keeping febricity of inconsequence that imparts insignificantly majority of materially impoverished majority of their populace for whom national resources must be employed to structure into sustainable development machinery of their nations.

Are there worthy alternatives? One answer seems adequate, one cannot know until intelligent minds sit and consider implementation of more encompassing forms of economic engagement and nation management.

While simplicity seems to overemphasise free education, what remains more relevant is how free education can enable refined labour development that in turn pays off cost of education through wealth creation as a counter balance to invested cost in turning out such educated minds, a policy must necessarily be a self supportive set of cyclic activities, creating fields of subsets interaction to integrate a comprehensive field of well grounded, stable economic structure upon which further development is enabled.

Constant, continually upgraded, improvements in these concerted fields eliminate redundancy and ensure optimum efficiency within particular eras intellectual capabilities.

Democracies are by nature idea pooling institutions where elected representatives resource ideas from their electorates, refining that process and identifying new ideas for implementations is what idealistic governments excel, and their pool of resource-able idea is global and unrestricted.

One only needs to look around to appreciate that simple fact that intelligence and growth promoting developments are not boundary restricted or culture delimited. In that same sense must full awareness prevail that delay full implementation to resolve social issues of material lack for marginalised in a community is an indication of severe lapse in social resource management.

What makes a difference, from utmost benefit, to barely dipping ones toe in strange waters, is what overall benefit is diffused through such idea resourcing on a community’s marginalised.

To totally remove marginalised and focus on how structured human resources in a nation ought to live, to a stage where all developing nations are positioned for utilising whatever latent talents that are imbued in them is a task awaiting a functional United Nations Organisation, improving its task medium of expected responsibilities and discharge.

Like refining raw materials, humans must be refined through education and training to enable them contribute their creative developmental capabilities to their societies.

There is a constant revision of perspective depending on what perspective a particular situation is viewed, from a high rise building your sense of giddiness is a distant street level scene, from a cruising aeroplane to becomes a continental perspective and from a space shuttle it is a planetary perspective. In same sense, governments can conceive of reality of what is expected and delivered from a perspective of working in tandem with rest of human intelligence or working at a far less than optimal level where social despair is tolerated and given expression as a tolerated terminology that allows specie life to be wasted through planetary management inefficiencies. One then wonders what kind of intelligent specie allow such waste of rare untapped pool of intelligence with every life left unrefined and uncultivated?

In resourcing ideas to adapt into a growing trend in whatever area of human development there is no doubt that late starters have an advantage of learning from mistakes of path blazers, which in itself doe not imply that there is any encouragement for latency, thus in urban developments there are increasing awareness of greener, environmentally sounder approaches than a concretization of monolithic structures.

Social philosophizing of this nature is not per se a critic of any set of leadership rather than an attempt to create awareness of choosing alternatives that remove complacency in terms of leadership shortcomings, shortcomings that occupy leaders is cycles of failure yielding little in terms of direct benefits and enabling an opting for a goal focused effort, to drive of national resource management, coordinating effort that is in tune with highest possible conceptualisation of human excellence.

It is also a means of emphasizing how collective failure ought not to be tolerated as an assumption of any assumed state of a stage in development. Awareness creates an opportunity from a jump from a prior state of inefficiency to a more efficient level of operation in any social management process.

While ideas are profuse, and are of little practical value, unless coordinated into a structure for implementation consideration. Refinement and implementation are two idea enriching processes that once activated turn those latent mind projections active projects for implementation consideration.

Consequently, ideas advance and then a setting of an agenda begins to assume form that will bring universal change in reference to a defined universe of a community or nation becomes a necessary third step where implementation becomes a short, medium and long term occupational activity, be it in terms of non physical service activities or physical infrastructural construction activities. A fourth stage is maintaining and improving over tie what has been accomplished and where necessary replacing with more era complementary projects and implementations, inevitably follows in functionally responsive social systems.

Urban development and for that matter national development is an integrated process of replacing non viable system structures with growth enabled (intellectual, social and technological) options that altogether improve prior quality of life along a certain dimension, it is not a stand apart project that exists apart from masses, likewise aspects of system whole must grow in tandem with growth dynamics in that social system.

Thus, high rise office towers and illiterate populations are a mismatched pair. World class motorways roads and poor transportation equipment or lack thereof is dubious dispensation of system resource, growing populations and lack of mass transports in urban centres is a frustrated urbanisation, and on it goes  with every lack of implementation that undermines large population aggregation.

Development that matches needs with implementation and integrates local population with avant garde implementations, which in turn becomes functional improvements to ease life quality, has greatest chance of adaptive growth potential. Finding that intersection of matching existing and introduced requires multiple coordination at both segments under consideration, population must be equipped intellectually or through awareness and consequent modification to ease themselves and make theirs new implementations and new implementations must be adapted to ensure ease of use.

One can discern three major cycles in direction of socio-economic and overall human development, in exiting first phase there is a re-alignment of traditional systems to a more productive and urbanised pre-industrial, industrial and modernised community characteristics, initially, this is limited to a select group of minority, when its benefits are clearly indicative, there is second phase of mass orientation to adopt these values and integrate them, nationwide, into their personal and communal lives, for overall system benefit there is a push by national leadership to coerce a drive away from negative and redundant traditionalism towards a more relevant pro-literate, missionary biased education to enable acquisition of teachable skills to push whole system into a pre-industrial, quasi modern community, failures at various phases of this stage has caused a stragglers effect that has under mined overall benefit if this drive had been successful. Finally, there is a modernised society emerging at final third stage with vestigial remains of non-inhibitory traditional values enabling a unique identity. This third and final phase is a complete phasing through to a new era with completely new values and social perceptions and expectations. This phase is still to be approximated by developing African nations. Presently system inefficiencies in orienting collective into a predictable structure of national resource management that ensures an easy transition means that phase one which should have been over is still causing turbulence and uneven achievement overall at phase two delaying phase three which is where these nation ought to be now.

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Leaders who serve in public office assume those positions for singular task of service to those they represent. In that role, their management task requires of them to identify values in their areas of responsibility and using existing resources to develop latent, poorly utilised and undiscovered resources, enrich them through a preparatory process and position these coordinated resources to sustain and broaden existing scope of their communities and nations.

Economies are activity sets of integrated supportive cycles of production and consumption, economies can only expand through consumer or participant expansion where existing activities expand and new activity entrants broaden scope of existing base. For agro based economies transiting into pre industrial modern era, there is a significant widening of scope of economic activities from simple cultivation employing basic tools and simple minimal processing of agro products to a much wider set of activity schemes that require a more cultivated mind set to enable resource management at this levels of widened activities.

Progress hinges more or less on continual expansion from a fundamental start point of direct interaction with nature to layered, enhanced and translateral feeder integration at this multi layered levels of interactive interdependency of activity sets that require layers of interaction both at industrial machinery level to human intermediaries to ensure fulfilment of a wider variety of end products.

How nations are able to increase activity schemes determines their economic growth prospects and their ability to increase wealth generation to sustain their economies at a level more sophisticated than a prior primary state of assumption.

Now, an ethereal question ought to be posed, a questions which in being answered provides fulcrum to shore socio-economic development strategy in developing regions; that question is are developing nations at a stage where modernity is a destabilising factor and they as a whole will be better off progressing at a natural pace in a dominant agrarian economic system?

Development and its implementation is a response to driving pressure to substitute existing structure with more system stabilizing frameworks to enable social stability. Whatever finds infusion that creates new patterns of a sustainable nature enough to create new needs and a persistent need to accommodate those needs becomes a social factor that must considered in managing that systemic whole.

Presently, developing nations are providing far less that their system needs demand to ensure stability in their socio-economic environments. There is a need for a drastic re-orientation to ensure an upgrade to a new level of conceptualisation of essentialities needed to ensure an even keel for developmental progress.

This gap between desires and available provisions is causing a severe turbulence where disparity between extremes are leading to undesired swings driven by excess loading at one end and severe deficit at other end, with no equitable negotiated middle ground of modulated provisions.

I will make no effort at arguing necessity of every child having a $100 in Africa. Question of merit, however, is what relevance does it have for every school child and the nations as a whole?

If it is available, if it is desirable and some will acquire it in that society, thus creating a vacuum of unfulfilled needs, it becomes a source of social contention.

How important are certain needs to everyone? Not everyone needs to be attired in designer suits, nevertheless, even though humans can with a certain degree of adjustment live naked or with leaves around their waists, all humans do need decent and clean clothing, because it is desirable and given appropriate circumstances, provided and thus, worthy of attaining, one way or another.

Ease with which a community, society or nation makes these basic needs acquisition possible, is a measure of comparable acquired development. This is how far this argument will be taken. Understanding the arguments precepts under lies, beginning to appreciate complex mechanisms of socio-economic stability or lack thereof in any nation.

Nation management will have to bulk improvements at ends where there is a inadequacies and ensure a more balanced centre, which centre is a level of overall system evolution. It is at this level that an upward overall progress is enabled pushing social systems as a whole desirably upwards.

A nation is a defined portion of a shared common planetary heritage over which each leader has a mandate enabled by its human populace to ensure optimum resource management to ensure an approximation or exceeding of a pre defined quality of physical existence. Leaders who are capable of deciphering through attained knowledge what existing unlimited potentials resources they can employ both within and beyond their area of direct control stand to use this awareness as a means of achieving certain heights of excellence for their people, albeit temporal.

In seeking to create that middle of stability in social growth, developing nations are positioned to reflect on how earlier emergence of ideologies in seeking to polarise development from ideological perspectives have differently realised similar ends. What is critical in that lesson is nations fare better where governments allow individual idealism and drive for excellence to thrive and governments create platforms within national structures for allowing identification and development of imbued talents.

Those lessons also importantly indicate that certain basic provisions mainly housing needs, education, health and basic communication infrastructure that ensure sanitised urban environments and orderly organisation of society to ensure predictability in system resource management ensure success in development.

That management processes that assume a leadership imposition of appropriateness, deliberately imposing unhindered expression of desires and needs from a governed and their elected representatives, imposing restrictions to unhindered creativity from group members and groups in national systems often undermine system efficiencies.

Labelling socio-economic processes, giving them a form of weighted, preferred, verifiable identity within a questionable value system that is self effacing, which social processes can be explained with a certain degree of accuracy, pretentiously extolling those values, when they are unnaturally in conflict with simple expressed interests of any populace is a farce.

People every where on earth have simple and basic needs that when provided for ensure a degree of social stability and sustained economic growth, none of which provisions impose material lack within a limit of normality.

However, there is clearly an indication that choosing from existing knowledge has proven a task impossible for most developing nations who are presently incapable of capturing those idea essences that enable them to organise structures within their systems to allow them to maximise resource identification, development and deployment.

What is apparent, are sudden flashes of brilliance, in a clinging, drowning mud of inefficiency when governments loose their developmental projected growth processes in progress and resort to questionable conduct of limited overall system benefit.

Where enough intellectual power has not been garnered, to project these systems to a level above and beyond simple traditional and agrarian societies, faltering from projected development plans has severe consequences.

While there is nothing per se wrong with those evolved states of society in development, there is a clear indication that their inadequacy has at its core, production structures that have proven inadequate to sustain social and economic balance in light of applicable alternatives.

More than detailing a preferred action cause there is a need for a internal re-evaluation of these developing nations to verify whether they are operating at optimum capacity, given their existing capabilities and if they are not, what can be done to maximise internal resources under-employed.

These resources are of course mainly of a mental and intellectual nature, resource to be engaged in improving existing states by identifying resources to be deployed to alleviate existing gaps in system provisions.

Since it is not a lack of ideas or examples of actual implementations of what ought to be done rather than actual realisation these nations have to look from within and find out where failure is originating.

Thus there is a need for specificities where ideas become specified variables to be implemented and followed through for their estimated period of viability at which time alternative provisions will have evolved to replace and improve upon existing implementations of previous era. These are what development plans and projects seek to achieve, given that most developing nations have fairly detailed developments plans that hopefully are being constantly revised, failure is mainly consigned to project implementation and needs to resolved at that level.

Internal inconsistencies in improving overall system through leveraging needs at ends that are lacking is a failure that is contained at level of commitment and a mind state deficiency of pursuing an idea to its successful end.

What causes such dystopic gap between a start and a completion what by all consideration is worthwhile is where these nation systems are inadequately developed and it is at that level that rectification must be made.

Which awareness is what enables that essential perspicuity that takes system failure from a material and leadership inadequacy to an intellectual conceived level of a perception of society by its leaders from an angle hitherto not all conceivable.

If a palpably self contained system has all resources for internal improvement and yet remains stagnant in full utilisation of those resources and even where external supplements needed to improve that system are available and not fully resourced one begins to wonder whether such systems are internally incapacitated by a process of development at a level which has more to do with appreciation internal values than a lack of such values?

Again, self deprecatory questions do not go beyond more than creating lucidity for reconsideration. Given that improving and refining resources at all levels continual create socio-economic expansion and creates a vitality that sustains growth beyond a drudgery hold onto life because humans by natural inclination seek to preserve life, there is a difficulty of fully comprehending why unstable nations in transition with good leaders steering affairs cannot instil dependable structures for system stabilisation that enables optimal resource utilisation at attained levels of developmental growth to enable an overall upward elevation of developmental stage.

Conclusion

Vitality in nation development requires a willingness to be open to access existing accessible intellectual and knowledge databases constantly being updated as creative minds are pushed and driven to innovate and introduce newer possibilities to handling old tasks.

It is a determined benefit to leadership to create avenues to filter all possible worthwhile information available to employ to improve.

How this information is absorbed and employed underlies success in national and continental development.

Trade is an exchange of goods and ideas from a general point of view, prosperity in trade and wealth creation in a certain limited sense means creating or having access through natural endowment to what others need and cannot acquire except through exchange or being enabled access to by those who have these resources. In a similar sense developmental vitality is pushing beyond what is, to make possible, what can be and enriching quality of a society’s life quality as an end measure.

How this is realised, is in terms, of what worthy ideas are generated and concretised in implementation to add value to any nation.