Africa: Resurrecting the spirit of Ken Saro Wiwa

I'm talking about an issue that was highlighted by the late Nigerian writer, philosopher and activist, Ken Saro Wiwa - that's, the relationship between the lack of access to and control of resources on the one hand and poverty on the other. But two issues caught my attention recently and I was thus forced to revisit it. One was just an ordinary advertisement in a newspaper by UNDP Botswana looking for a consultant (an economist, of course) to mainstream poverty reduction into Botswana's national development plan.