That the World Bank has a strategy for Africa seems to surprise many. I asked, sometimes, “Does Africa have its own strategy? Of course it does. At least the African Union has a vision of sorts in many areas. So what can I say about the World Bank strategy for Africa 2011?
When I first got the strategy, I quickly read through and decided there was nothing new and put it aside until someone left it on my desk with a note requesting me to say something about it. So I read it a second time.
The March 2011 strategy titled ‘Africa’s Future and the World Bank’s Support to It’ (visit www.worldbank.org/africastrategy) The ten-year vision has two pillars of competitiveness and employment as well as vulnerability and resilience.

Pride is twofold: the negative one that connotes vanity and self-importance; and the positive one that means greatness of soul and magnanimity.  Every human being needs to be positively proud. Without this positive pride, you are likely to have low self-esteem and all the consequences that come with it.

A concerned member of our community recently wrote in The Standard a letter bringing to light a proposed trip for Guild members which would cost ten million shillings.
The efforts of the writer are commended but it is also important that we have all the facts. The Guild Government has been accused of misappropriating and mismanaging funds.