The problem with most afican governments....

The problem with most of African government.

What's the problem with most african governments?

As son of an African politician,and as psycholgist , eye have gotten to understand the problem with most of our African government….

1* First of all, most of our government are repressive dictators, authoritarian regimes, because those leaders usually in most cases militaries and in few cases are civilians, they do not come from the people. If they do not come to power by a coup, they come to power by fraud, representing just a minority sector by dividing the people to rule with iron fist, and the people not knowing the power they have as the people, divided and not knowing whom to trust, have no choice but to live in fear, by those whom are suppose to be there to protect and represent them. Most of these leaders have a bad human right records, because they do not respect the human right, especially the first human right law which is ‘’ the right for every citizen to live free’’ that is why when a dictatorship regime is overthrown, the head leaders always run away in foreign is norder to escape from being trialed as crime agaist humanity and it is sad that there are still potential powerful nations that protect these criminales in their countries.
Where there’s justice there’s no crime, and where there’s crime, there’s no freedom of speech. We need justice, social justice in Africa . in order to have justice, peace, and progress in Africa, it is necessary for the people of Africa to enjoy the benefice of having a continent with so much natural resources and for that we need to sacrifice ourselves.
Politic is dirty but Africa’s politic is worst…our leaders have no mercy, no shame, they’ve lost their dignity , selling their lives to the devil…they will do everything in their power to stay president until they die, preparing their own child or a party member to continue with their regime, and at the end of the day we see witness to one same party that been ruling over and over again in most of Africans country…hiding behind ‘’democracy’ by accepting multipartite , meanwhile the truth is that there is no democracy in most African countries, not even elections….
we hear most of them in their speeches saying that they are against tribalism against civial war, meanwgile they are the same to hide behind their tribes to protect their ineterets and at the end of the day , it are the people who pay the price, being from north or south, east or west, it is always the people who gets to pay with their blood....
my father and eye , we do not get along very well because we have different views when it comes to politic, probably it is because we were both born in different time, and also grew up in different places. eye still remember once when he told me when eye was starting to be interested in politic; he told me; ''leave politic to politicians myself, you do not know what you are involving yourself into'' and eye told him, whom do you call politicians...
today eye grew up, eye have alot of respects to regarding to my father, as a politician and as a father because the few years that eye was under his shadow, eye learned alot from him, and he did raise us all very good as a good father...but still we were never on the same page, especially when it came to african government in general, our country's governments in particular....
sometimes when eye look at how elections are being organized in africa eye just smile...outside of africa, when a government is defeated during the election, they leave power without probelm, in africa, if a regime looses power, violence starts the next day, it is as elections are now a warning for political tensions, and conflicts.
how can you speak of elections when the people go to vote with fears, how can you talk about opposition, when the same opposition is divided. in some countries the opposition doesn’t even exist because it are the same members of the same party that create little weak parties, which at the end form a coalition force supporting the same administration…and those who accept staying in the opposition for a radical change are menaced, tortured , and even murdered….and that is what we African call DEMOCRACY….
Just take a look at most Africa’s administrations and you will realize that it is the same fundamental problem in most of our countries.

2* The lack of leadership!!!

Everything is divided: the government , the army, the people….
To end these ethnic conflicts, our leaders must sit together and agree how to govern our nations by sharing power and finding a way to distribute Africa’s resources equitably.
We need to end with this ‘’tribalism’’ or ‘’ethnicity’’ mentality , and have a national conscious identity in order to have a continental identity, and the only way to reach there is by having a new type of leadership in every aspect giving the torch to Africans intellectuals exercising a new type of politic, because we are tired with our old traditional politic that keeps destroying and dividing Africa. We can only move toward that road by changing all these regimes , moving toward a real change and only through democracy, we can reach to that new Africa nation, working all of us in unity, peace and harmony.

A lot of nations wants to give us a hand, but are withholding their economy aids because they first want to see us organized with;
a- program( vision)
b- mission
c- goal

They do not want to make the same mistakes as they mde in the past supporting those repressive regimes….because in some countries as in the democratic republic of congo, they had none after the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, but to support Col. Mubutu, who was the only man at that time capable to control the army and organize the country. later on, they realized the mistake that they had done, and even if Mubutu is seen today as a dictator because he was, but we have to accept that he had control over the entire country. today the new government is having alot of problem due to the protection of it borders, because not only that the country is too big, but it calls for the greatness of it leaders.

africa needs to reform it government to have a sustainable economy growth and a political stability in Africa….we should never let no powerful country to tell us what to do, or how to lead our nations but should work all together in order to ameliorate the social , educational , heath , political, economical, and cultural conditions of our society.

3* Corruption:
corruption has destroyed africa's economy. even it are the militarieas regimes that instored corruption in africa, but nowaday it became as a style of life. everyone wants to become a politician to get his part into corruption, so that when he leaves office or die, his family can have a better life. it is all about individuality now, nobody care about others no more. and thses are the sintoms of capitalist, we've all forgotten the social values, the love of one and another.
alot of times when eye read about our socialist leaders, eye do not say that eye agree with all the visions that they had for africa, but on that side eye do admire most of them, to not say all of them, because even if they were divided too in their own parties which lead to there assassinations, but they were good men, honests individuals, who loved not only their nations but africa. they believed that having public office such as being a president shouldn't be a way to have all the honors and glories, but a position of sacrifice, and that is why they had to die young, in order to live eternal in the hearts of their people, and humanity as an example to be follow even if today's generation is pulling away from that dream we all once had, the only dream that can save africa from this chaos.
Leaders like Thomas Sankara, whom when he got to power, the first thing he did was to lower the ministers salary, sending them to participate in the countries agriculture inside the country. when he died he was the poorest president in the world, only had 4 guitares. a president who extended his hand to his people, never considered himself different from them cause he came from them.
a leader like Patrice Lumumba, whom eye consider as Malcolm x had said; ''the great black man to ever walk on the african continent''
this was an excetional individual and leaders, who could have seen from back then and did predicted all this divisions and crisis that we are facing today.
a humble man, full of wisdom and integredy, a prophet.
Leaders such as Doc. Kwame Nkrumah, who believed that only through africa union, we could become a better continent all as one, by uniting our governments, our army, our economy with one voice to represent us all as the people.
and still we overthrew his government.....
and there are many more, Leaders such as; Agostinho Neto, Amilcar Cabral, Samora Machel, Steve Biko, Mrien Ngouabi, Nasser, Sekou Toure', Haile' Selassi, Leopold Sedar Sengor, Nelson Mandela etc...
without forgetting our warrior leaders even before the independance, such as; Chaka Zulu, Samore' Toure', Babemba.....

What eye do not understand and it is the same thing most of the few friends eye have known would ask me in every country where eye have been; ‘’if Africa is so rich in natural resources, than why do you all live in so much poverty’’
Because our leaders aren’t doing their job. Instead of representing us, they represent a small group of people and their allies whom will do all for them to stay in power in every mean necessary….they treat their own people as dogs. For them, we, the people are animals, the only human being are their families. Building villas, hotels, companies and investing their money in foreign countries banks, at home the people starve to death, some live with only 1 dollar a day, some without nothing to eat even where to sleep, and after when the youth find no way but to use violence as the only way to survive, the punish them, even kill them considering them as outlaw, that they are above the law.
Politicians whom are suppose to make the laws, and enforce them, but there’s no-one more above the law than them, them whom are suppose to protect the law, are the first one to violate the law, the constitution.

Conclusion;
eye believe that it is only through democracy that our people can unite, because that is what democracy is all about ; the power of the majority of the people, by the people and for the people. We need to give the people the right to express themselves by educating them. when the people know how to read and write, they will know their duty and their right…so that no politician will be able to come and lie or corrupt them, and they will always vote for the best man to lead the country, not looking at their ethnic, or what this last can give them, but what can be done for the country.
Our first fight is to organize our government first, in order to organize our nations economies and face our many crisis, issues such as: the problem with aids, unemployment, poverty, violence, women abuse, child abuse etc…..
A better future will come, someday we will have what we have always dreamed to have but never had, because there were those who never wanted us to be happy, the dream that our martyrs died for, ‘’total political and economical independance’’, ‘’national integration’’, ‘’African union’’.
As Patrice Lumumba said; me too eye see a brighter Africa, but we will need to work harder in order to get there.
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an afrika'n apart.