ANGLOPHONE AFRICA

China has seen significantly set back, although they're stumbling to rise again with their nefarious intentions and awesome power to hurt. My very very passionate concern is "the US-UK bloc". I am trying to position Jamaica (an English speaking UK Commonwealth nation) simultaneously within the the US-UK bloc in a strategic and intelligent way, as well as in (primarily) the Anglophone African continent. It isn't the original reason for my interest (pronounced since the 60's) to preserve British colonial architecture in Jamaica, but that would restrain China's drive to remove this heritage and leave us even more psychically damaged, and dependent on them. We are an anglophone African people with a British colonial heritage. That's ground zero. If we're lucky, we have centuries to go on from there. But we mustn't lose more territory to foreign investors or for foreign-owned villas or hotels. What I see the need for is radical, radical conservation and preservation, requiring absolutely no demolition of anything. New development must, among other things, focus on the poor, and be unobtrusive, and must fit in with the old and the natural. This focus provides a great deal of industry that, together with food production and fishing, should keep Jamaica on the straight and narrow for the foreseeable future. The US-UK bloc must help us in this endeavor, and if they fail to do so, they could very well face the future you predict.



I'm afraid I won't be up for more panelist work. I had higher expectations from the group--finally, people who talk to each other, keep the thread going, and one would have hoped, actually DO something. So I've been proven again to be just a dreamer, like my teachers at Knox always labeled me. Barking up the wrong tree once again. Send in the clowns! Beyond that, Aduku's version of reality is too different from mine to warrant further discussion. It's tantamount to taking a person's entire hard fought life lessons and throwing them down the toilet. No thanks.