Change of mindset key to Africa`s progress

Making the people of African believe that the continent is prosperous and there is no justification for its people to remain poor is the best instrument towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), IPP Executive Chairman Reginald Mengi has said.

He made the remarks in Dar es Salaam yesterday during an audience with a 25-man delegation from the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, in Nigeria when they toured the IPP media houses.

Mengi said Africans had to make a breakthrough and shake off the negative attitude that poverty was here to stay.

``For many years Africa was classified as the poorest continent, irrespective of continued exploitation of its resources, and these resources could add to people�s efforts towards mental liberty, economic success and total eradication of poverty,`` Mengi said.


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