Dear Reader: Where do you think we should start rebuilding Africa?

The article is supplied by S'the Masia, South Africa. She is ​an advocate for economic development. Follow on Instagram. Facebook, TikTok (@eightredapples and @8redapples)

I think we should start with the following:

• Stop abusing alcohol and drugs

• Work on our mental, physical, and emotional health

• Start backyard farming

• Support commercial farming as a viable career choice

• Produce our own in-house products and sell

• Buy from each other

• Grow trade within Africa

• Teach, teach, teach the nation and the young ones about the art and importance of making money.

Surely poverty in Africa cannot continue to the next 100 years. Instead, in the next 100 years, Africa should be an economically and socially fit continent and home to united Africans who are free of self-doubt, self-sabotage, and social anxiety – products of the colonial past and key reasons for the lack of economic excellence today.

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Sithembile Masia

Editor