Article: Senegal wants skills of Blacks

Jr. Washington, Linn
Philadelphia Tribune, The
11-11-1994
Senegal wants skills of Blacks.

By Linn Washington Jr.

Tribune Staff

Dakar, Senegal -- Economic opportunities in addition to ancestral heritage await African-Americans in Senegal according to the Prime Minister of this West African nation, Habib Chiam, who urges Blacks to invest their skills and capital in the development of his nation.

"You are lucky enough to live in a country that has advanced technology and we as a country must use that technology to develop our country. So we ask African-Americans to come here and help in the development of our country in terms of technologies, Prime Minister Chiam said in an interview conducted in ...

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