An early Timbuktu Chronicles post "
How Africa missed its industrialization" highlighted a number of steps unintended or otherwise that led the continent down an un-industrialized road. Another
paper by Hal Hansen links the
artisanal foundation of
Germany to the subsequent "emergence of a prosperous
Mittelstand " and contends that "no history of modern German economic, social, or political development can afford to dispense with
artisans and or their institutions." Both papers accentuate the importance of a bottom-up approach when quantifying the issue of successful
industrialization.Wolfgang Schneider-Barthold believes that the
African elite should "
have begun with what already existed and built up and expanded the industrial sector from the ground up and internally in pace with the development of the other sectors." Astute observations from authors whose home country-Germany-perceives industry as being paramount in their quest for long term prosperity.
photo courtesy of imjosh
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