Science and Technology: The African Search for a Third Way to Development

Development strategies so far followed in the Third World are now being increasingly questioned because they have not led to meeting basic human needs and also because they promote Third World dependence on the developed nations. Science and technology of the Western kind only perpetuates an already deteriorating situation in Africa. Although no nation can develop in isolation, African countries must initiate, control and direct their own pattern of development. Peaceful co-existence and progress for all mankind can only be a reality if the North and the South embark on a harmonious and simultaneous process of reshaping the existing international order, including the technological order.