Kwamina Panford: the brain behind a brave new book

Of Africa’s natural resources, underdevelopment, and poverty • Kwamina Panford: the brain behind a brave new book

The exodus of U.S.-based Indian and Chinese professionals and businessmen to India and China to contribute and do bigger and better things there has initiated what has been termed “Brain circulation” as opposed to the nauseous “Brain drain” of the past. I have often been intrigued by the large numbers of African professionals in the diaspora and wondered how such energies can be turned homeward and harnessed to benefit Africa. Why must Africa continue to be poor and isolated considering the continent’s substantial natural resources coupled with the mind power of its sons and daughters in the diaspora 

On first meeting prof. Kwamina Panford

In 2012, while visiting Boston, I inquired of the possibility of meeting some influential Africans in the area. Right away the name of Prof. Panford was sugge