One of the problems we have as Africa is we struggle to separate practical systems introduced by oppressive governments from the ideologies the governments that

One of the problems we have as Africa is we struggle to separate practical systems introduced by oppressive governments from the ideologies the governments that came up with these ideas. An example is the Rhodesian government did some good work in identifying different agricultural zones within Zimbabwe. They put up extensive fencing making it easy to deal with disease outbreaks. We were able to export beef to the EU, using the train built by Rhodes (to Cape Town port). I digress. The fences have not been maintained the EU will not touch our beef because we cannot guarantee it is free of Foot and Mouth disease. Our neighboring countries immediately shoot and burn Zimbabwean cattle if they stray into their countries because they don't want to tainted. Due to sanctions the Rhodesian government worked out a way to use sugar cane created ethanol as an additive to petrol. Unfortunately most of these types of debates get very emotional and it is hard to separate the ideology from good practical science and practice.