This man was very right! Africans, we have a big problem when it comes to governance. Just imagine that the GDP of California last year was about twice as large as the entire GDP of the African continent.
How can the GDP of a single U.S. state be larger than the combined GDP of the entire continent of Africa? Could it be true that we don’t have the brains and mental capacity to govern?
Someone once said that if Kenyans and Britons were to exchange countries, meaning all Kenyans move to Britain and all Britons move to Kenya. Kenya would become Britain and Britain would become Kenya in less than half a century.
Not really elder… Ancient Egypt was developed by blacks. Hizo pyramids za Misri ni ngozi nyeusi ilijenga.
But also in the Bible, Africa is referred to as the land of Ham.
Ham is alleged to have sodomized his father; some other interpretations claim he slept with his mother. So I think our problems as Africans started from there.
Democracy fails to work in Africa because before gaining independence, the African was not first weaned of personal greed and selfish character. Kings and chiefs used to get the people prostrating themselves like slaves before them. After independence, African presidents assumed they were monarchs and took power thinking the nations were personal property. The notion of being employed by the people to serve them hasn’t sunk in: they still think they should be ruling, rather than governing, and this is why they have a problem with being counselled. When they are told what the constitutions of their countries require of them, they imagine they are being disempowered; when they are asked to be just, they think they are being ridiculed and unfairly criticised; when they are asked to leave office for someone more in touch with the realities of governing a republic, they think they are being denied their birthright–and resort to violence, using police and military forces–and so does a vast majority of those who choose these kinds of people to lead them. It’s an ideological crisis, and Africa needs very, very serious educating.
Half a century you say, there would be filth everywhere the following day, uncouth matatus and Bodabodas in a week and a collapse of infrastructure due to lack of maintenance in a month
DONT FALL FOR THAT SELECTIVE PROPAGANDA
1)GUNS-
MOST BRUTAL SERIAL KILLERS FOR WOMEN IN AMERICA ARE WHYTS.Mass murderers/domestic terrorists.
Give white men guns-kill or massacre many innocent wchool kids..Blacks dont do that
2)TRIBALIST-RACISM WHYTS KKK CONTINUE KILLING MANY INNOCENT BLACKS from Brutal Slavery/COLONIALISM/TO MODERN DAY
#KING LEOPOLD OF BELGIAN CONGO-murdered and maimed millions of innocent congolese and even today they whites are still funding tribal elites to kill each other because of resources.
The BRITISH USED and rooted tribalism till today using DIVIDE AND RULE tribal TACTICS -and continue to perpetuate those tactics behind the scenes through black governers but controlling them from France and London.
Compared to other forms of government, democracy is the least bad system of governance.
However, the problem is not the form of government; our biggest problem is mental (mindset), and I agree with you that Africa needs very serious education.
These are consequences of the FALL. For some reason, Black people are more afflicted in resource mismanagement, because something in their genetic makeup combined with the fallout from Eden made them that way. Every nation on earth has a particular affliction, either physical, mental or spiritual which affects them more than others.
Instead of adopting a woe-is-me attitude, remind the devil that Christ has redeemed you and believe that when we are restored to Eden condition, we will be better stewards of the renewed Earth. Satan will be bound and will have no effect on us.
I hate what sin and the fall of mankind did to Africa. The poverty and human suffering has been awful to witness. But it will be over soon.
DONT FALL FOR THAT SELECTIVE SELF HATRED AND WHITE SUPERIOriTY
3)HATRED AND WARS-are you kidding?- Israel USA causing wars iraq,IRAN,palestine,Venezuela,NARCO WARS orchestrated by C.I.A..?PETRO-DOLLAR WARS AND REGIME CHANGE IN AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST???They install western friendly puppets and look the other way as the brutalized their poor citizens!!! lets talk about Africa blue eyed boys of the west like WILLIAM RUTO, Mobuttu ssseseko Kagame ,Museveni⛏️,Moi,Kenyatta,Kabila,Omar BONGO, Sani Abacha? These are so many evils we are going through because we were not really free!!
Even Rwanda Genocide was started long before and had been boiling due to Colonialist regime who started divide and rule tactics.They prefeered the minority long nosed cushitic to dominate the bantu hutus
Africa is just 50-75 years old after colonialism!!Give it a break!!Yes black men had kingdoms and civilization.Problem started with whyt man came with BIBLE-gun -divided us and told those who went to colonial concentration camps to go and start despising their cultures,religions and traditions!!Jealousy started there!!Feminism,selfishness,greedness,baby mammas broken homes,love of money and wealth has all been brought by whytr man.We africans had communal.love, ubuntu “i am because you or we”,we had taboos,respect,togethernesss, no crime, we defended the tribes against cattle raids and polygamy worked/family,clan systems worked smoothly.Everyone played their roles dilligently and helped each other.We had traditional midwives,prophets,dispute resolution and court justice systems
ROLES
WARRIORS,elders,farmers,hunters, market days to trade with other communities,medicine.men,rainmakers,blacksmiths,rulers and chieftancy no post election wars.Land was for community no greedness like land grabbing.
I believe with time we shall be back and dominate once again.We once rulled the world and led in civilization egypt also in Kingdom of Nubia, the great Moors who brought civilization to NEANDERTHALS WHO LIVED IN CAVES!THEY STOLE our identity after stealing the gun powder from Chinese and invented canons and guns!!
THEY ERASED OUR HISTORY -we saved them cave people.Africans are so kind and human.Even today they worship white menlike the Russian (come with me )despite our forefathers maumau fighting and dying for us to save us from them brutal evil men.Now we have easily forgotten and bowing to them.If all like general CHINA and Waruhie WAKES UP TODAY and sees okuyu ladies spreading their legs for the pink oppressors they died to free us they would want to kill this ungrateful imbeciles!!!