Beliefs, Values and Principles

The reality is that the socialist policies failed to improve the economy of Zambia and what was not understood is that the state can only do so much but the responsibility for making a country work must lie with the citizens on whom the state’s viability is contingent upon and not the other way around. The nationalized mines failed as predictable to perform as anticipated and more importantly the strategy to use the state as the driver of economic and social change under a one-party system also failed resulting in President Kaunda being forced to hand over power to a democratically elected government. There are many who believe that the state and not the market must be the instrument through which resources are allocated. To who do the resources of Africa belong? This is a contested issue so is the issue of how best this resource endowment can be exploited.