{"id":1222814,"date":"2022-10-12T18:09:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/12\/mahama-calls-for-big-us-investment-in-africa-after-slavery\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T18:09:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:09:54","slug":"mahama-calls-for-big-us-investment-in-africa-after-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/12\/mahama-calls-for-big-us-investment-in-africa-after-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama calls for &#8216;big&#8217; US investment in Africa after &#8216;slavery&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"389\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Mahama VOA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Mahama-VOA-696x389.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"389\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Mahama-VOA-696x389.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Mahama VOA\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Former President John Dramani Mahama is advocating a Marshall Plan for Africa to enable the continent to become a force to reckon with when it comes to trade and development.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter slavery I think there should be a Marshall Plan,\u201d he said on VOA\u2019s <em>Straight Talk Africa <\/em>on Wednesday, October 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlavery affected the continent very adversely and I do believe that if a Marshall Plan was put up and we got the right leadership and we do the kind of things we are doing, we can create a decent existence for our people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Marshall Plan, named after former US Secretary of State George Marshall, was a recovery programme instituted by the United States to aid Europe after the Second World War. It spanned a five-year period, from 1948-1952.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mahama said Africa should be made a beneficiary of a similar programme given the extent of poverty left in the wake of slavery.<\/p>\n<p>He was, however, upbeat that the continent remains the most promising for trade and investment, advocating more aid to shore this up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have confidence that Africa is the next emerging continent and it\u2019s going to be the next frontier for investment and business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Describing the current intra-Africa trade as \u201cridiculous\u201d, the former Ghanaian President advocated a 50 percent trade among nations \u201cto multiply the benefits within the continent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kwame_amoh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @kwame_amoh<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President John Dramani Mahama is advocating a Marshall Plan for Africa to enable the continent to become a force to reckon with when it comes to trade and development. \u201cAfter slavery I think there should be a Marshall Plan,\u201d he said on VOA\u2019s Straight Talk Africa on Wednesday, October 12. \u201cSlavery affected the continent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1222816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[671,944,230,913,1125,26001],"class_list":["post-1222814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-africa","tag-big","tag-calls","tag-investment","tag-mahama","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}