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In this thoughtfully and masterfully written book, Dr. Felix Oragwu examines the inseparable relationship between technology development and economic progress of nations. He deftly argues with facts that the point of sail of all economies is the introduction of the manufacturing or the industrial economy. He establishes that Africa’s prolonged economic plight is centered on the two fundamental challenges of a manufacturing economy. The key problem that has kept our policy makers handicapped and our economies crippled. With documented facts on the institutionalized crippling of policies and organized consequences of stagnating events of the colonial masters, the author asks: ” Why is it that Europe, which hosted the industrial revolutions in the 17th and 18th centuries did not permit technological education in Africa in about 50 years of colonization, and prefers to send aid afterwards?”

Technology and Wealth of Nations is deep in its research, logical in its argument and credible in its solutions. Every policy maker should read this book and its contents should be taught in schools. Without understanding the economic plot, Arica will remain in the vicious circle of economic stagnation as is still the case in over 50 years of post-independence. Thanks to the author, Africa now has a functional blueprint

“Scientific and Technological Innovations in Biafra” is a front seat account of the, challenges, sacrifice and accomplishments in the development of local indigenous technology, driven by necessity, as a solution to local issues.

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