For example Kenya. A government gets elected for a period of 5 years. Based on rough estimates, present and past governments average:
Within those 5 years they manages to build 6000 housing units.
They provides directly or indirectly 20k new jobs. Around 700km of new tarmac. etc
Periodically they cry:
https://x.com/ETEmbassyNBO/status/1820521214244519954
And shamelessly beg the world like it’s something cool and fashionable to do.
What African countries call national leaders,it seems,for instance Kenya, they should actually be county leadership because:
The impact will be felt if 20,000 new jobs are created at the county level within 5 years, 6000 housing units are delivered at the county level within 5 years, 700km of tarmac at the county level within 5 years and so on
So the conclusion is:
African countries are yet to have national leaders who can use available data to solve their problems.
For example, if a country like Kenya has 10 million jobless youths and you get elected for a 5 year period, to be honest if you are solving the problem you should at least be generating 2 million jobs per year.
If kibra slums has 400k residents in need of say 100k housing units,you should be delivering 20k per year.
If the country consumes 1million metric tonnes of rice per year you should be increasing yields by 200k tonnes per year.
Only then can we say Kenya or Africa is changing. But as things are,the capacity of African governments is just enough for 10% of the population.The remaining 90% are the famouse statistic of how Africa is a poor dirty backward continent.
Then their is this behavior of the same African leaders moving across the global with sad statistics begging for help only to squander, leaving behind dirty scary ill equipped hospitals and schools and poorly designed roads like it’s some cool thing to beg by whatever name abroad!!!
It will take generational change for leaders to know it looks bad on them when they beg or lead a nation with hospitals in sorry state, poorly designed roads with big names which is actually a mockery and so on. Look around, most adults are shameless in some things they do unlike the young people who just want a functioning state that doesn’t beg the world or export them to be house girls in the middle east. You can see, adults are proud of that arrangement like it’s some big achievement, while the young see it as a last resort temporary option.
But atleast we have some school principals who ensure their schools are atleast in a certain good condition,so their is growing hope but not at the national level. They ensure the roofings are in order, landscaping, paintings, students are smart and so on unlike others whom their schools look worse than the ruins in Mogadishu