Liberia, May 28 -- "Many of us are guilty of these comparisons, but as one becomes intellectually prudent, with an open, informed academic mindset, the trajectory has changed or must change." - Austin S Fallah.

Comparing developing nations to the West using identical developmental metrics is inherently unjust.

It equates long-term, historically advantaged Western powers with regions still dismantling colonial legacies and systemic resource extraction.

This false equivalence ignores systemic global hurdles and masks unequal power dynamics.

Julius Nyerere (Former President of Tanzania): "You can not develop a country by remote control. And yet this is what we are being asked to do... We are being asked to believe that the gap between r...