A hopeful path for development in Africa

Africa faces many more barriers to development over the next two generations than any other global region. Food supply, population growth, city expansion and political stability are especially troublesome. A strategy is proposed here for using new, low-cost information technology for erasing the educational deficit and accelerating food production. Hope for doing this quickly lies with the rapidly expanding women's NGOs. Acceleration of the education of girls has the highest priority, because more education is needed in Africa than elsewhere to achieve fertility at replacement levels. To be sustainable, an African society should be service-oriented, with much reduced emphasis on manufacturing capital goods. It would be very knowledgeable about economizing, and so would need to achieve a relatively low GDP. The principal aim would be for society members to declare themselves to be happy, and feel they have a high quality of life.