U.S. civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has called for an African version of the Marshall Plan, the postwar rebuilding of Europe, during a visit to Nigeria.
Jackson told a legal gathering on Tuesday that such a plan would help lift African countries out of the troubles of their colonial past.
Jackson says Africa “got free, but we didn’t get equal.”
Jackson later acknowledged such a plan would require accountability, especially in Nigeria, the continent’s most populous nation, where experts estimate as much as $380 billion has been embezzled from oil revenues since it gained its independence from Britain in 1960.
Posted By: DAVID JOHNSON
Saturday, November 6th 2010 at 8:00PM
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