It is cheaper to import a bicycle from China or India than to manufacture it in Nairobi or Accra. You may ask why NBO or ACC to be precise Kenya or Ghana? These two countries have a lot in common despite being 4,000 or 6000 kilometers apart by air or road.
There are millions of educated youth with access to the internet but the governments in these and many other African nations does not encourage local entrepreneurship but rather prefer outsourcing and importing goods that would be manufactured locally. Kenya exports its fine coffee and tea to the EU. Their coffee is used to blend other low quality coffees from Southern Asia and later is exported back to Africa at hefty prices as Nescafe. The same thing happens with Ghanaian and Ivorian cocoa. This scenario is replicated all over Africa with mineral ores.
To add salt to injury in the UK and certain jurisdictions in the USA there are more Nigerian doctors practicing there than in all of Nigeria. Brain Drain is dragging an already lame Africa decades back. Most of these doctors studied in Africa and thousands of dollars were used to get them their education in Africa but their education is now benefitting already developed countries. This is EXPLOITATION in the name of Greener Pastures.
