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Minister of power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has stated that for African Countries to attain desired prosperous future, they must focus on homegrown development. The minister, who was speaking to an audience on the topic: New Global Partnerships for Africas Development: Creating Our Desired|Future Together., at the Harvard Kennedy School in the USA, noted that the right choice is for African citizens and the leaders to focus on self-development. He said, We have enough resources in copper to dominate technology, enough Cassava to replace corn starch with Cassava starch, enough cocoa to make our own chocolate, enough nickel iron ore to build our own steel plants and 1.2 Billion people who guarantes a market for what we make and shared prosperity will be very difficult, demand and sometimes littered with failure. Fashola said that the choices being made by President Buharis administration are focused on self-grown economy and are already yielding the desired results, fish and milk have reduced from $2.1billion in 2015 to $595 million in 2018.