I AM NOT COMING TO DAVOS.
Those who know me will have a fit, laughing regarding the title of this piece.
He can’t afford Davos and possibly couldn’t get a corporate sponsor to get him to Davos.
So, they will say my not coming to Davos is not by choice, heck I am not even sure of a visa.
I am an African, from sub Saharan hell, those are people who actually need to network at Davos, but we are the orphans of the world.
Really.
Maybe really Davos has lost it lustre.Gone were days when Davos gathering were the Holy Grail, the mecca of the faithfuls of economic shamans, the
Who can forget the battle of
Statistics has shown that most of the WASP, Western English speaking nations dominating parley has consistently posted less economic growth than the behemoth of Asian erupting Mount Etna of economic growth. Most recently.
China has posted consistent growth in the last five years,
Take the Arab countries of
The norm amongst the uppity economic Moses of the West is that they still expect them to arrive on camels.
The
At Detroit car shows year in year out, Japan car makers keeps unveiling the next generation of cars fueled by alternative energy, I make bold that they already have a 10 year lead over the cars makers in the West.
I wonder how many countries they will have to invade in the next decade to keep the oil flowing from the Persian Gulf, because China consumption is getting insatiable daily, they too need to secure their oil supply, get the drift?.
By the way Osama Bin Laden has not been caught, Osama,he is no longer a spring chicken ,it is the Osamalets in suqs of
If China energy consumptions continue at this rate, they may be a new Cold War along the faults of who controls the energy producing nations of the Gulf region, it is taken that United States dominates the scene for now, something tells me that it wont be so in 10 years.
Davos, World Economic Forum, which world? , how many companies and partners are represented from
In the last 5 years they have been increment of over 1000 percent in number of people using mobile phones, of 51.8 million people ,of course mobile penetration is still higher in other regions of the world,15 per 100 people in Asia,48.8 in US ,55 in Western Europe, but Africa is still a very large market.
Nobody is thinking of putting of factories manufacturing the components of these devices in
We are taken for granted, it is the same condescending and snobbish treatment apart from excruciating poverty and politics of divide and rule that turned Arabs to suicide bombers.
Africans may not continue to be so complacent very soon and it is not about installing some half baked “democratically” selected leader.
At Davos ,African poverty which we all know requires a new Marshall Plan size initiatives is not really on the agenda, people protest about “Cocacolarization” of the world, the whole world wearing the uniform of Gap, produced by 10 year old kids in sweat shops of Asia, Bill Gates Microsoft software dominating the computer word,(Bill gates has since done a lot of charity work in health care in Africa thru his foundation, thanks a lot ,Africa doesn’t need charity they need developmental loans ,aids in the real sense of it, this is what Europe and Japan got after the 2nd World War ,when their economies were basket cases, the British Prime Minister ,Tony Blair may never have had an elementary school education ,if not for the thoughtfulness and generosity of those Plans.
In Davos,most of leaders from 3rd World nations that got to attend at all ,are lackeys of the West ,who haven’t got the foggiest idea, why they are there at all.
Maybe the snows ,the good food according to Phillip Bowring in his article in International Herald Tribune of January 2005, (Africans especially are never comfortable with snows and cold,blackmen don’t really ski, we play soccer and box, how else can you let out a millennium of oppression),skiing and other social interaction has turned noble ideas on it head.
Davos has become a feel good reunion of old boy network groove ,where financial cartel leaders of the West come to trade stories about how they are ripping the rest of the off ,the well born, ,the privileged and a few outsiders who got lucky , coming to nearby Gstaad to ski and to sleep with their secretaries ,while the wife takes care of Mark 111 in New Hampshire suburb.
According to Bowring, check out the stats:
2000 participants in 2005:
Only 450 are not from non English speaking nations.
80 corporate partners: Only 10 from non English speaking world.
Obviously these companies are not Davos compliant, Toshiba , Acer ,Canon, Samsung, LG ,
Or may be those powerful companies from east Asia are frankly not interested, or the executives have no desire to ski or cheat on their wives.
The West has done a lot for the progress of mankind, really but somehow it has always been thru underhand tactis.Look at the enslavement of black people in America and the diasporas, look at the divide and rule of the oil politics of the Gulf, the colonization of Africa and Asia, the absurd pricing regime of primary products from Africa and the rest of the 3rd World, if not for OPEC ,oil would still have been selling at $3:00 p/barrel, then they still find ways to rip off the producing nations ,come to Niger Delta in Nigeria ,a gold rush of bandits in safety boots .
During the cold war, legitimate leaders from
All of these are legacies of the greed and arrogance of the Western world that Davos has come to symbolize.
My take is that a Davos should hold in different locations yearly like in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil,Ajegunle in Nigeria,Kibera in Nairobi, in Calcutta….in Hillsbrow in Johannesburg…so that the rich elites will see for a week ,the direct and immediate consequences of a 26 year old WASP bond trader bailing out of Kaula Lumpur.
Leonard Lawal.
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