Ghana is likely the first country in the world to manufacture Bamboo bicycles
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History remains incomplete because certain facts about Africa have been swept under the carpet by Europeans, just to hide the truth and portray Africa as ignorant.
Is it true that apart from the looting of Africa’s rich mineral resources, including gold, diamond, Copper, Bauxite, etc, the Europeans stole ideas from Africa to develop Europe, while they underdeveloped Africa?
In today’s (3/17/2016) Gazet Van Antwerpen, one of Belgium’s newspapers, there was an article about Jef Merckx, introducing a Bamboo bicycle in Belgium. According to Merckx, the Bamboo bicycle is lighter, faster, and more ecological, with a photo of him and the Bamboo Bicycle he has manufactured.
After reading the entire article, there wasn’t any indication anywhere in the article that Bamboo bicycle has been long manufactured in Ghana, by a woman called Winifred Selby, who started her production at the age of 15. Ghana is likely the first country in the world to manufacture Bamboo bicycles.
Like always, Belgium has denied
Ghana-Africa’s intelligence and knowledge and given the credit
to someone who has stolen an idea from Africa, above all from a woman. What a
shame!
Miss Selby is working on a new bicycle with Bamboo. Photo
credit: Media Ghana
There are many reasons journalism is said to lose its
credibility. Gazet Van Antwerpen’s publication giving credit to Jef Merckx, as
the manufacturer of the Bamboo bicycle, is one of them.
Without investigation, they
just published the stolen idea and knowledge from Africa. This is a mockery of the entire Belgian media. I told you so, and I will always tell you.
I DON’T EVEN WANT TO PUBLISH JEF MERCKX’s PICTURE ON MY
BLOG, BECAUSE HE DOESN’T DESERVE IT.