While I feel a bit disappointed about the lack lustre treatment of the abject poverty of Africans, I cannot but put the blame squarely at the feet of our leaders and so-called intellectuals. It is only in very few countries that you find a straight leader and an honest following. In most cases, people are just downright greedy and corrupt; not caring for anybody else but themselves. Imagine just a few days ago, while African leaders were lobbying the G8 leaders for support for NEPAD and by extension begging for more money to squander, Kenyan MPs were busy voting to award themselves almost an eleven-fold salart increase. It was absolutely disgusting hearing one Mp trying to justify their almost 11 fold increase of salary from UD $5,000 per month to US $54,000 per month, making them better paid than US president George W. Bush, by claiming that as MPs their constituents expect them to be attending funerals and naming ceremonies throughout their constituenecies. While they are finding it difficult to pay their teachers a few hundred Dollars a month, they want to award themselves salaries of tens of thousands of Dollars. Are Africans really serious about finding solutions to our abject poverty? Have a good day, Gassa There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve. -Mike- Levitt- _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~