Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

We are a blessed people and, with God s guidance, our smiles might even become laughter in the not too distant future.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.