ABSTRACT
The first and basic precondition for economic growth and industrialization is human. It is the effective training of a minimum corps of modern men and women. Such training must take place at every level, from the most sophisticated natural and social science, from the highest civil service and industrial administrative skill, to the propagation of literacy in the villages. Africa enters the world of modern technology relatively late in the game. The new African nations differ in resource endowments, degree of literacy, and land-tenure arrangements and level of income—as well as in history, culture, language, and colonial heritage. In dealing with its agricultural problems Africans have one great advantage over many other transitional societies. The rich mineral and agricultural resources of Africa hold out the opportunity for the new nations to develop in time the capacity to pay their own way, as they move forward through the take-off toward technological maturity.
