Africa’s leaders are tired, old and moribund in their thinking.
Not to be outdone by John Steenhuisen’s Ukraine fact-finding mission in the “what’s the point?” stakes, the EFF decided to mark Africa Day on Wednesday by telling the French to get out of the continent. And, sadly, that very action encapsulated so much about why Africa still has, more than 60 years after the winds of change first blew across it, failed to live up to its promise as a global leader.
Not to be outdone by John Steenhuisen’s Ukraine fact-finding mission in the “what’s the point?” stakes, the EFF decided to mark Africa Day on Wednesday by telling the French to get out of the continent. And, sadly, that very action encapsulated so much about why Africa still has, more than 60 years after the winds of change first blew across it, failed to live up to its promise as a global leader., sought to tilt at windmills, while their people starved or languished in poverty.
When those leaders were not trying to divert the attention of their citizens, they were killing anyone they thought to be an opponent.
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