African leadership crisis – where are the beautiful ones?

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• BIG NAME 12 years ago

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• ghanaman 12 years ago

  ... hopefully the author meant "the beautyful ones", as Ayikwei Armah originally put it in his opus magnum.
  
  Nonetheless, the author has without doubt managed to come out with a very informative piece.
  
  A lot has been sai ...
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  ... hopefully the author meant "the beautyful ones", as Ayikwei Armah originally put it in his opus magnum.
  
  Nonetheless, the author has without doubt managed to come out with a very informative piece.
  
  A lot has been said and written about corruption in Africa. What is left is to change it. Might it help to look at global best practices? Singapore, Rwanda anyone?

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• william 12 years ago

  i CONCUR!

  i CONCUR!

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• Dan Budu 12 years ago

  Thank you very much Abby for this article. How true the Rev Dr. John C. Maxwell states "everything rises & falls on leadership". Leadership is the catalyst to bring about the developmental change Africa has been craving for a ...
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  Thank you very much Abby for this article. How true the Rev Dr. John C. Maxwell states "everything rises & falls on leadership". Leadership is the catalyst to bring about the developmental change Africa has been craving for all these years. Without the right type of leadership in place of the affairs of mother Africa, the continent will continue to be described as the Dark Continent. The concern now is how can we get the type of leaders Africa is craving for? Where are the Nehemiahs of the Bible in Africa?
  
  Thank you again and God have mercy on Africa and bring the leaders we need!

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• SAMMY 12 years ago

  ONE OF THE OBJECTIVES OF ANY VISIONARY AFRICAN LEADER WOULD BE TAKING STEPS TO HALT THE EXPLOITATION OF OUR RESOURCES AS KWAME NKRUMAH SET OUT TO DO.SUCH A LEADER WOULD BE ELIMINATED JUST LIKE HOW NKRUMAH WAS ELIMINATED. THER ...
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  ONE OF THE OBJECTIVES OF ANY VISIONARY AFRICAN LEADER WOULD BE TAKING STEPS TO HALT THE EXPLOITATION OF OUR RESOURCES AS KWAME NKRUMAH SET OUT TO DO.SUCH A LEADER WOULD BE ELIMINATED JUST LIKE HOW NKRUMAH WAS ELIMINATED. THEREFORE,OUR LEADERS FEAR TO PURSUE RADICAL POLICIES TO DEVELOP OUR COUNTRIES SO, THEY DECIDE TO PURSUE 'SOFT' POLICIES TO SATISFY THE INTERESTS OF "OUTSIDERS" IN ORDER TO STAY IN POWER.THESE "OUTSIDERS" HYPOCRITICALLY PREACH "FREEDOM" BUT THEY DO NOT GIVE OUR LEADERS THE FREEDOM TO PURSUE POLICIES WHICH WOULD BE IN OUR INTERESTS; OUT OF FEAR OF BEING ELIMINATED, OUR LEADERS PURSUE POLICIES TO SATISFY THE INTERESTS OF THESE "OUTSIDERS" BUT TO THE DETRIMENT OF AFRICA.
  OUR LEADERS SHOULD BE PITIED BECAUSE IF THEY TRY TO DO THE RIGHT THING FOR THEIR COUNTRIES, THEY WILL BE "PUNISHED".

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• non-colonial or plantation mentality 12 years ago

  There are home-based, online businesses in the US that are open to people living in other countries, continents. BUT NOT AFRICA generally...especially deep BLACK AFRICA.
  Ghana, for example, I bet MONEY GRAM and WESTERN UNI ...
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  There are home-based, online businesses in the US that are open to people living in other countries, continents. BUT NOT AFRICA generally...especially deep BLACK AFRICA.
  Ghana, for example, I bet MONEY GRAM and WESTERN UNION still ONLY allows folks in Ghana to receive but not send? I too bet PAYPAL is not easy to get in Ghana by the locals? When you keep the common people crippled economically they can not do business easily with the rest of the continent or the outside world. Places like India are coming up because they have access to tools like VISA and MASTERCARD logos on their bank cards. So the internet is open to them across the global.
  African leadership takes bribes and allows corruption if they want to remain leaders. Funds from foreign sources that too are kept in foreign banks...hidden away.
  Sammy, you are correct! It is no accident that lights are off across GH periodically. Such an act keeps the masses cripples so they can't do global business LEGALLY online.

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• AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 12 years ago

  LEADERS OF OUR BETIFUL CONTINENT AFRICA STOP THE CORRUPTION, STOP SAVING OUT SIDE OF YOUR OWN COUNTRY AND USE THE MONEY TO DEVELOP YOUR MOTHER CONTINENT. LEADERS OF MOTHER AFRICA, BE COURAGIOUS LIKE YOUR GREAT LEADER KWAME NK ...
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  LEADERS OF OUR BETIFUL CONTINENT AFRICA STOP THE CORRUPTION, STOP SAVING OUT SIDE OF YOUR OWN COUNTRY AND USE THE MONEY TO DEVELOP YOUR MOTHER CONTINENT. LEADERS OF MOTHER AFRICA, BE COURAGIOUS LIKE YOUR GREAT LEADER KWAME NKRUMAH. DO NOT BE AFRAID OF THE WESTERN WORLD BE BOLD AND STRONGE. THE GOD'S POWER THE "HOLY SPRIT" IS IN AFRICA NOW. THE AFRICA CONTINENT IS NO MORE IN DARKNESS. MAY GOD HELP AFRICA AND LET OUR ANYMIES SEE THE REAL LIGHT OF GOD; SO THAT AFRICA CONTINENT WILL BE FREE ECONOMICALY. "HOLY SPIRIT" LET YOUR POWER DISPLAY IN AFRICA OUR BETIEFUL CONTINENT. AAAAAA AMEN.

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• Peter Vanwor 12 years ago

  Our Leaders appear as toothless bull-dogs. The West continues manipulating
  its former colonies through veiled economic policy aids educational programs etc. and appears to aid selected brainwashed, presumed-leaders to win el ...
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  Our Leaders appear as toothless bull-dogs. The West continues manipulating
  its former colonies through veiled economic policy aids educational programs etc. and appears to aid selected brainwashed, presumed-leaders to win elections on the continent. Hence, just like our folk Bob Marley said, We Africans need Freedom From The Mental Slavery of the West that has Engulfed the African.

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

  Another lamentation of our woes as Africans. As a colleague, now deceased, used to remind me years back when I indulged in listing such bad habits: "But Andy, those are the symptoms of our backwardness, not the causes of our ...
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  Another lamentation of our woes as Africans. As a colleague, now deceased, used to remind me years back when I indulged in listing such bad habits: "But Andy, those are the symptoms of our backwardness, not the causes of our backwardness. If we don't exhibit those negative attitudes and actions, we won't be classified amongst the developing people but among the developed people. WE WOULDN'T BE WHERE WE ARE". To put it bluntly, Africans are NOT yet classified among the civilised peoples, and so what we see are the actions of people who are not as yet civilised across board, irrespective of their Westernised "educational" levels, which reproduce caricaturised versions of Euro-Americans; since their ideational value systems remain essentially pre-C20th African. So to someone like me, these empirical narratives hardly explain the causation of these negative behavioural traits of the wannabe "African leaders" largely blamed for the woes, nor that of the African hoi polloi who acquiesce to and are collaborative of the negative behavioural patterns that keep the continent from developing materially and "ideationally," intellectually if you want to put it that way.
  
  We must look beyond the empirical and begin to ask the "why" and not only the "how", "who" and "what" questions without necessarily degenerating into infinite regression about the causative factors.
  
  There is another article right now on Ghanaweb by one Frimpong. After reading through, I felt hollow. I didn't learn anything new. The same old stuffs about what have kept Africa backward since independence; Africa going back into the bush, as the few infrastructure left by the colonialists deteriorated and collapsed; Africa returning to the intra-ethnic wars of the pre-colonial period; Africa of bloody-minded leaders (chiefs and kings) who started killing captives in their 1000s as the slave markets dried up with the European abolition of the slave trade; Africa .... What else is new, to me???
  
  My qs is, WHY do they behave that way?
  
  Andy-K

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• Yagumwura 12 years ago

  Apart, from Nkrumah who did his best, all the other Leaders came to line their pockets together with their freinds , family and cronies,Shame on our Leaders including the miiitary ones,

  Apart, from Nkrumah who did his best, all the other Leaders came to line their pockets together with their freinds , family and cronies,Shame on our Leaders including the miiitary ones,

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• click here 12 years ago

  ZYDsek Thanks a lot for the blog post.Really thank you! Cool.

  ZYDsek Thanks a lot for the blog post.Really thank you! Cool.

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• juma.k 12 years ago

  Thank u abby Abby M7 is one of them.

  Thank u abby Abby M7 is one of them.

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