Up till date, African leaders and intellectuals, are yet to fully understand the global concept of Foreign financing that has engulf this black continent since independence.
Africans can sign a billion financing agreements, or what it takes, but it will not change the daily lives of common Africans, as 90% of this funding will leave our economy to import machinery, equipment, goods, and services from the very donors and financiers.
This funding benefits the donors more than Africans, because it allows them to sell to us (Africans) their manufactured products. They employ their factories and engineers, and contribute to the prosperity of their own economies, while our African youth face rampant unemployment.
Dear compatriots, people of Africa,As long as we do not master the technology of machine manufacturing, we will always remain poor. Indeed, the billions of CFA francs in investments we receive from foreign financiers, will return entirely to the very donors to promote imports.
This is why, more than 60 years after independence, despite the billions and billions of CFA francs in funding, received from the west, our daily lives have never changed.
Solution:
It is essential to create centers of excellence in industrial mechanics, equipped with precision mechanical tools, in order to train 10,000 polytechnic mechanical engineers in each African country, capable of manufacturing all kinds of machines and equipment locally, within the African continent.
That will be the only way out, for our economic and military sovereigntyThere is dire need for Understanding that without mastery of machine manufacturing technology, no economic development would be possible.
Africans equally should understand that the countries that develop economically are those that master machine manufacturing technology, because the world is mechanized.
What does a center of excellence in industrial mechanics mean?
A center of excellence in industrial mechanics is a mechanical workshop equipped with precision mechanical tools, enabling the local manufacture of all types of machines and equipment.
If we had these centers of excellence in industrial mechanics, we could manufacture locally, and throughout Africa everything to guarntee industiral growth, like power plants, agricultural tractors, agricultural equipments, drilling machines, bulldozers, two-wheeled motorcycles, tricycles, cars, helicopters, airplanes, tanks, etc etc.
The cost of setting up a center of excellence in industrial mechanics, equipped with precision mechanical tools, would amount to approximately six billion (6,000,000,000) CFA francs.
Now another issue will be Manufacturing Patents rights The problem of machine and manufacturing patents rights is indeed a deception organized by the West to prevent Africans from accessing machine manufacturing technology.
In reality, many machine manufacturing patents have been in the public domain for over 100 years, and can as such be copied without prejudice. Patent law stipulates that a machine-making patent becomes public domain after a certain number of years for the benefit of all humanity.
Just to say that, many machine-making patents have already been in the public domain for hundreds of years.
NB: In reality, machine manufacturing plans are sold worldwide through retired engineers. And one can easily obtain manufacturing plans for all kinds of machines from retired engineers. This is the trick the Indians and Chinese used to acquire the technology.
With the Center of Excellence in Industrial Mechanics, we can manufacture all kinds of machines to international standards in Africa
FANGNON KOFI SAMUEL is a Beninois a mechanical Engineer by training WhatsApp: 00229 01 57 57 75 74; Email: citoyensconcerne@yahoo.com
