Dar es Salaam, May 6 -- AFRICA: TO jog your memory the late President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, while addressing the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) in 2015 said: “If we remain exporters of raw materials we will never go anywhere while other economies flourish.

SADC exports 10 per cent to Europe while Asian countries export some 27 per cent, mark you industrialization is now a must.” Five years later when telling the Swiss that Ghana would no longer be exporting its cocoa raw, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo said, “There can be no future prosperity for the Ghanaian people in the short, medium, or long term if we continue to maintain economic structures that are dependent on the production and export of...