African Countries Are Privileged!

Yes, you read that right. African countries actually have many advantages. Warm weather all year round, fertile soil, abundant natural resources. Nice, right? Well, it is precisely because it is too nice that makes African countries lazy to think.

Just imagine, if you live in a place where it is always warm, food is easy to get, why bother making advanced technology? Why bother thinking about how to survive in winter? After all, nature has provided everything.

It's a different story with European countries. They have to face extreme winter. If they are not smart in finding solutions, they can freeze to death. That's why their brains are forced to continue to innovate.

It's like this. You are given a choice: live comfortably but don't have to think, or live hard but are forced to be smart. Most people would choose the first one, right? Well, that's what happens to African countries.

So, the point is, African countries are not unable to progress. They are just too comfortable with the privileges given by nature. While cold countries, if they don't want to think, just choose: life or death.

Interesting perspective, right? It's not just about geography or economics, but also about human psychology. How we respond to life's challenges can determine the progress of a civilisation.

But remember, this is just one point of view. The problem of national development is very complex. There are many other factors at play. But sometimes, looking at it from a slightly odd side like this can make us think deeper.

Religion (Christianity)

Africans do not understand the world. We think Wealth is created through the church. At first, I thought this thinking was limited to illiterates, so I was horrified to find some people with master's degrees thinking like that. I have a friend who has two master's degrees, and he is an ardent follower of the fake Prosperity Prophets.

In 2022, Ghana experienced serious Economic Problems where the local currency was so volatile, it was very difficult to conduct business because it would fluctuate (mostly downwards) many times in the same week. The prices kept rising, and Ghana experienced a decline in per capita GDP. Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, founder of Action Chapel International, took the woes of the Ghana cedi into prayer. He implored his congregation to open their mouths and pray for the stability of the cedi.

The Ghanaian currency had become a major victim of an economic downturn that had been epitomised by massive depreciation against the United States dollar, galloping inflation (at over 40% at the time) and the general rise in the cost of living.

The ‘man of God’, however, believes that prayer was a good means of arresting and stabilising the depreciating currency.

“All things are possible to him that believes, I said All things are possible to him that believes. We speak to the cedi. We prophesy to the cedi, let the cedi stabilise”.

I spoke to many Ghanaians at that time, and they believed that the problems Ghana is facing could only be solved spiritually. They do not even think they have anything to do with their financial situation. Africans believe it’s God who decides who gets rich or not at the Individual and Country levels. I saw a post on Facebook, “Why Ghana, a Christian nation with a vibrant institution called Christian Council, is not as rich as South Korea, a non-Christian country.

Most of the answers were along the lines of, “God’s time is the best”, meaning that when it pleases God, Ghana will get rich. You can see how dangerous this kind of thinking is.

It means Africans cannot take responsibility for their country and personal economy. We cannot come up with wealth creation ideas and execute them as we see in other developed countries.

Hold a Business Conference and see how many Africans you will attract, even if it is free. But hold a Church function and promise miracle money, miracle weight loss, miracle mobile money, even miracle fuel, miracle husband and all other nonsensical and superstitious promises and you will pull Africans in thousands even if it will cost them money to attend.

If you may have forgotten, Prophet Bushiri charged his congregants R25000 to sit next to him.

Zambia started a week of prayer and fasting against cholera.

Now it’s worse in South Africa, where people even eat snakes, rats, etc. in the name of Christianity.

So, as you can see, while Christianity is not in itself to blame, it is been hijacked by con artists who are making millions of dollars by selling fake miracles. It’s a continent-wide problem.

Can you imagine trusting your company in the hands of employees who believe success has nothing to do with smart thinking and hard work, but by spiritual means that have nothing or very little to do with your input?

I remember pastors praying for buses before departure (of course, they collect offerings from passengers and you will get dirty looks for not paying into the plate), after which it is driven at high speeds on narrow and or pot-holed roads. When accidents inevitably happened, they were blamed on Satanists, who were said to cause accidents so that they could collect blood for rituals. A lot of pastors encourage this thinking.

To sum it up, Christianity has helped create lazy, superstitious people who do not know how the world works. They believe to achieve anything, you have to go through the prosperity prophets who are the most influential and wealthy people on the African continent. African Christianity is very bad for economic development.