AFRICA 21st - TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE AFRICA GREATER: MODERNIZATION OF VILLAGES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

By Serge Olivier MENKUIMB

The African Union and some organisations such as NEPAD have developed policies for the development of Africa to date. But these policies are not really effective when we consider the current African economic situation compared to the northern countries. A large number of African refugees are pouring into the north. One of the fundamental problems causing the non-implementation of these policies is the lack of a clear agenda that can trigger the development process and solve all other problems at once. The AFRICA 21st project proposes an agenda limited in space and time, which can solve all existing socio-economic problems or be a real way out of these problems in a specific time.
Plan:
- Concept of construction of high standing houses accessible to any purse, intended for mass consumption
- Assembly of the houses in an industrial chain
- Priority is given to the villages before eventually expanding to the cities
Goal:
- To improve and raise the living conditions of the peasant, the very basis of Africa.
- To revalue the peasant life through a unique architecture.
- To move to a modern era, which should necessarily come one day.
- To eradicate poverty.
- General electrification of the rural area.
- Abolish illegal immigration to the north by giving the African the ability and means to visit the whole world at will and if the need arises.
- Together we can make Africa greater by creating and achieving the most greatest African Dream of the 21st century.

Many great leaders, including Nelson Mandela, agree with the fact that:
" Vision without action is just a dream, action without vision just passes the time, and vision with action can change the world."

• Language: English
• Publisher: tredition
• Release date: Sep 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9783347737228

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1 Introduction

(Luke 14: 28) All the options that Africa is using today, leads to no permanent solution. Turning to foreign banks each time only plunges Africa into uncontrolled debt and dependence. Africa is dependent on the World Bank and the countries of the North in all areas of its economy. While the European, American and Chinese countries are masters of their own destiny, Africa is swayed by these powers towards an uncertain and dependent destiny. Africa should not be satisfied with receiving fish every day from its neighbours. Africa must learn to fish independently to satisfy its needs. To cut this dependency, a radical strategy is needed to enable Africa to take its destiny at hand. Even if the money comes from outside, it is used to create value with local raw materials. For decades, Africa has been unable to give itself a direction and has been driven by foreign dilatory policies.

Africa needs a direction that can guarantee its future and protect the continent from unproductive foreign policies, such as the Arab conquest, colonization, the « Millennium Development Goals » etc. Africa must organize itself to take its destiny into its own hands. Beyond the plundering of Africa's natural resources and all other forms of bad policies, there is also the ignorance of Africa to implement an appropriate and sustainable development policy. To do this, Africa must move forward hand in hand and in unity. It is often said that there is strength in unity. The strength of China can also be largely attributed to the unicity of China, the fact that more than a billion people are Chinese and have a clear goal and vision. Beyond mastering all the modern technologies, the unicity has allowed China's rapid development. The command of these technologies allows them to abandon the archaic work methods consisting essentially of manual farming. They can thus carry out essential work, oriented towards industry and generating adequate, profitable and sustainable added value. If Africa is able to add value to its own raw materials, it will also be able to consume this added value and increase its economic power. The foreign powers, European, American and Chinese, exploit Africa without leaving any lasting value. The paper money that Africa receives, returns a few years later to its source. With its raw materials Africa can develop without having to take on debts and be manipulated by foreign powers, who only see their own interests in the first place. The manufacture of the building material and its direct use on the ground would be a key to success, allowing Africa to be responsible for its own destiny and to manage its own policy. It would then be necessary to organize a general action of valorization of these raw materials. Its transformation and use is mandatory to create the required value.

1.1 General overview of the material needed to build a house

The use of these different materials to obtain a completely furnished and equipped house is presented in Figure 1. This principle is valid for the construction of any other object described in this work.

Figure 1: Source of building material - Strategy

The origin of these different materials will be described in detail later in chapter 5 The raw material and its processing. The description will also be based on the elementary constitution of this material and the factories necessary to obtain these building materials. The description of the processes is an indirect presentation of the factory to be built, as well as all the necessary steps and the required equipment. Following the first laboratory analyses, it is necessary to insist on the fact that all these raw materials are abundantly available in Africa and in the places of the extraction of the first laboratory samples.

1.2 Sizing the house

The determining factor for shapping out the required size of the house will be the electrical capacity to be installed. It will be decided to set the electrical capacity at 20 kWp, because a house will have to contain all the modern equipment of our contemporary time. The annual energy production of each house could be estimated at 32.98 MW. The total installed capacity will amount to 5.71 TWh. If this capacity had to be bought on the world market from Chinese or foreign solar panels producers, Africa would have to pay a nice sum of almost 5,700 billion euros, if we consider the price of the kWh at 1,000 €. Currently, the African GDP represents almost 4 200 billion USD; [CIGDP]. Working together allows Africa to better direct its destiny. All African electricity production will then reach 9,417.27 TWh, more than double the energy production of the USA; [CIELP].

With the intelligent development of the continent through this project, Africa would be placed on the podium as the world's leading power in renewable energy production. This satisfies the Kyoto Protocol on carbon dioxide emissions as part of the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The energy not consumed will be used for street lighting and the supply of any other communal buildings such as schools and hospitals. The remaining energy can be used to increase the power of industrial production of any kind. Considering that each house will only consume about 1/10 of this energy, the industry will receive a very abundant source of renewable energy. The use of this energy for industrial purposes should be paid for, however, and this money will enter the government's coffers at the end of the project. It can be used to finance various maintenance work on the network and its upkeep as well as several other projects. This energy will also be able to completely supply the African transcontinental and solve all the energy problems of the various African countries concerning the production of electric current. This energy could be easily carried by rail throughout the African continent, see chapter 11 Factories for the manufacture of solar panels.

Referring to the power to be installed, the roof will have a length and width of 15 m x 15 m, so much so that the house could measure 13 m by 13 m

. However, the total area of the plot to be developed around the house can be calculated at 20 m x 20 m. A plot of land with a size of 400 m² will be required for the construction of a house. The house will have several rooms (at least 4 bedrooms, 1 living room and a kitchen) plus 1 toilet in the parents' room and one toilet for the whole house.

Table 1: Area in km², actual space to be occupied by the project by country