African Dream-From Poverty to Prosperity (part 1) by Bingu Wa Mutharika

When I began researching and writing THE AFRICAN

DREAM in the late 1990's, I never could imagine that when the

book would be published I would be the President of my country,

Malawi – let alone be the Chairman of the African Union.

In a way, the dream I speak of in this treatise is not mine

alone but one that I share with my fellow African leaders and

with all African people, a billion of them, speaking thousands of

languages, in 53 countries, and yet a people united by a common

sense of belonging and bonded by common origins, cultural,

historic, and geographic ties.

The Africa that I wish the rest of the world to know and

appreciate is the one in which vast wealth; cultural and material,

as well as deep political forms of participatory democracy and

governance have existed for centuries. It is the Africa with huge

mineral and natural wealth and a determined people that can and

should encourage today's political and economic powers to strive

for a better Africa.

-BINGU WA MUTHARIKA