By Staff Reporter
BOTSWANA President Duma Boko talks tough, says Africa must demand a seat at the top of the United Nations.
He was speaking in Harare during his state visit.
“…And sometimes, as African countries, we think we are helpless; we are not. We hold some of the aces; in fact, we hold some of the most important aspects needed for this world to survive. We are endowed with natural resources. The African continent is by far the richest continent on the face of the earth.
“We have natural resources in staggering abundance and variety. How can we be poor, and how can we go out into the world as beggars, as weaklings, asking to be given a seat at the table of the United Nations? No. We have to break into that organization and claim our seat at the head of the table. I make these remarks forcefully and evocatively because they must represent the new thinking, the new Chimurenga across the breadth and dimensions of the African continent.”
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