1) Song Of A Cordial Meeting From Ghana / Via France (Epistle) (From Songs From The Women Of The L.O.M.) Comments

Before I left Paris, I was lucky enough to meet a young lady from Ghana, (Africa) : it was a quiet night, a few people out and walking around, and I was heading back to my hotel, when I saw her standing there and decided to say hello, when I found her to be rather polite and courteous. We then stopped and talked for well over an hour; about where we were from, the things we did, how did she get there. Earlier, I was reading a book called, The United States of Europe, by T.R. Reid. And Europe, like America and many, many other countries, throughout the world, including Iraq, is reaching, what they somewhat refer to as an aging population, coupled with the baby-boomers retiring, the result will be, an under populated workforce, thus Europe, like America and many other countries throughout the world, will have to do a lot of outsourcing. And I couldn't help but make reference to another great source, Foreign Affairs, thus seeing the subject explained from an even more unique perspective; a broader perspective, where even now, besides associating Africa with its famous peoples like Nelson Mandala, it causes me to associate it with interrelated events that may be happening in Russia, India and many other developing and developed countries throughout the global community.

(Demographers at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis predict that human population will peak (at 9 billion) by 2070 and then start to contract. Long before then, many nations will shrink in absolute size, and the average age of the world's citizens will shoot up dramatically. Moreover, the populations that will age fastest are in the Middle East and other underdeveloped regions. During the remainder of this century, even sub-Saharan Africa will likely grow older than Europe is today.
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