Ndungane repeated his urgent call for creation of an Economic Union of African States to coordinate economic development and assure that Africa would never again be marginalized or exploited. Africa stands at a time where it can and must play a pivotal role in influencing the next millennium. Breaking bonds of debt A second voice from Africa, a theologian and economist from Tanzania, was just as blunt. We are pushing our governments to disengage themselves from these tyrants. Our people have suffered for too long under their domination.
Nobody wants to be dependent.
But there is no chance for freedom unless the chains of debt bondage are broken. Both Mwombeki and Ndungane endorsed Jubilee 2000, an international campaign calling for cancellation of the burden of debt in the developing world and a new, more cooperative, economic order, based on the biblical vision from Leviticus 25. Taking action After working in small groups, participants met in a plenary to hammer out elements of a strategy to address issues of trade, aid and debt. Greed seems to be at the basis of this oppressive system, producing massive poverty clearly recognizable in the problems of disease, hunger, illiteracy, violence, death, crime and immorality. Countries have repaid the equivalent value of the original loans, including the principal and interest, many times over.