It's sad. What makes it even more troubling is the fact that most of these Presidents and their ministers had their education in the West and not only would they have seen the very pictures you referred to, they experienced a ... read full comment
It's sad. What makes it even more troubling is the fact that most of these Presidents and their ministers had their education in the West and not only would they have seen the very pictures you referred to, they experienced at first hand disrespect accorded them by virtue of the fact that they're Africans. I actually wonder whether it is a disease of the mind? Rwanda's recent story should tell us that if a leader commits to positive change, the subjects would follow suit. It's time for change and we the people of the continent should rally together and demand accountability irrespective of the price we've to pay.
Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago
Across sub-Sahara African nations there is a greater likelihood to find leaders in most countries who received their education and work experiences in Western Europe and in Britain in particular. These educated leaders eventu ... read full comment
Across sub-Sahara African nations there is a greater likelihood to find leaders in most countries who received their education and work experiences in Western Europe and in Britain in particular. These educated leaders eventually become classic freed people with slave shackles still on their mind thus restraining them from independent thinking processes.
So while most of them violently advocate for a system of democratic governance in their respective nations they remain clueless on best practices, procedures and values of democracy; they bought into slogans to soothe their ignorant souls without requisite analysis and or review of the record on the failure rate of transplantation of democratic values outside Europe and the Americas.
Most of those very political, educated leaders are the very people who raid their respective national coffers to hide in foreign banking and financial institutions which would be an affront to the democratic values they espouse even as majority of their citizens suffer in misery. Yes most on the African continent were colonized by the British and may explain why it was easy to churn out educated but ignorant people Africans left, right and center who continue to buy into the fallacy that classroom acquired intellect is synonymous with wisdom. So even as most of Africa’s educated elite hide their ill-gotten loot in European banks they continue to sell land, natural and mineral resources to foreign interest with effective management skills. Why on earth do these very educated Africans continue to believe in their own inferior intellectual capacity if they look forward to be saved by their colonial masters while claiming to be free, educated and intelligent? Why else would intelligent and wise Africans sell properties of value to their respective nations to foreign interest because of mismanagement if the very educated leaders making those decisions are intellectually endowed and or wise?
It's sad. What makes it even more troubling is the fact that most of these Presidents and their ministers had their education in the West and not only would they have seen the very pictures you referred to, they experienced a ...
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Across sub-Sahara African nations there is a greater likelihood to find leaders in most countries who received their education and work experiences in Western Europe and in Britain in particular. These educated leaders eventu ...
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