Africa needs less globalisation and more real assistance …

EDITOR—The only part of Ncayiyana's editorial with which I agree is the end, when he talks about the need to restore a critical mass of African researchers.1 In the second paragraph, with one sweeping statement (“Granted, Africa's legacy of particularly exploitative colonial occupation by European powers is partly to blame”), he pushes aside centuries of slavery, colonialism, oppression, and neocolonialism; he clearly does not quite understand the psychological and sociological implications of the effects of Western domination on the situation in most African countries. With his exposition of World Bank capitalist ideologies and his quotation of obvious statements by a British minister, his ideological bent becomes clearer.

Africa must certainly pull itself out of its political and economic doldrums. Our leaders have squandered our resources and oppressed us …