Africa 2012: Confronting the triple challenges – economic inequality

The post-colonial experience has demonstrated that there is no causal link between political and economic freedom to suggest that we need to open new conversations on how best the economic inequalities that exist between different races and classes can be reduced in order to build societies and nations that offer hope to all.

The problem of poverty and inequality has no age and is not unique to post-colonial states. Developed countries face their own challenges to disallow any attempt at engaging in intellectual dishonesty in so far as linking economic inequality with the level of economic development of nation states.

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