Why Africa Remains the Poorest Continent on Earth

We live in a continent where our richest man and woman are those who occupy public offices, we live in countries where young women upon attaining puberty cannot afford sanitary pad but our public savant have iPods that they do not know how to use.

We live in a continent where we elect leaders on the bases of the size and depths of their pockets or on the bases of their ethnic extraction. We live in the continent where all civilisations are ahead of us.

We are being ladled the third world because there is no forth world, if there was the forth world we would qualify without competition. I would like to submit to you that corruption is the source of all this.

For some reason and a reason that i do not understand, we keep electing thieves and vilify good leaders.

We live in a continent where those with the mandate to fight corrupt are elected to fight corruption, but in the wisdom of corrupt party leaders and in my own view with their lack of wisdom use the occasion of the amendment of the law to disband the organisations that fight corruption and make them appear like they fighting corruption in the eyes of the public.

To support my statement of organisations that where victimised, scorpions is the victim in South Africa, and the equivalents of the scorpions in Nigeria, Malawi, and Zambia. It is clear and evident that in Africa the organisation that serve for a long time are those who refuse to fight corruption but appear to fight corruption.

Is time as Africans we know that corruption is a cancer that is not allowed to grow, because if it grows we will remain poor in the eyes of the world.

The question is, are we prepared as Africans to stop it grow? If the answer is yes then we have nothing to fear, but if the answer is no then Africa will never be liberated.

The tragedy of Africa is that we are in the business of canonising thieves and demonising our saints. The question to you reading this article is, what are we to do to reenergise ourselves.

The question is, are we waiting for the outsiders to tell us what to do? The question is are we prepared to sacrifice our lives for what is good and right to save Africa.