Africa development tragedy and poor leadership: Another Dimension.
Abstract
Many African nations are renowned with great wealth of natural resources such as oil and minerals and fertile soil for agricultural development. With these resources it would be expected that by now Africa nations would have been ranked among the developed nations of the World, but the reverse is the case. Africa is more under developed in the midst of all these wealth sources and Africa is ranked the poorest continent in the world. Africa Countries has over the years been classed as corrupt, Poor Leadership, insecure, poor, slow economy development, environment destroyers etc. This paper used Nigeria as a case study to explore how the developed nation has been a great distraction to African leaders in the implementation of development plans. The paper further argues that African leaders have not been able to clearly draw the line between a developing nation and a developed one with reference to the type of educational system practiced, manpower development, foreign policies imported / implemented, signatory to international convention communiqué and poor economy problem analysis strategies. The paper pointed out that since independence of most African countries the type of educational system practiced is not producing the required manpower needed by a developing economy and hence unemployment on the increase. It also identifies inflow of foreign policies which are not compactable with our development goals. It noted that most African leaders are often signatories to international convention which later limits the economic activities for African development. By establishing the relationship between these additional factors and development this paper tend to expand the root cause of Africa poor development growth and the way forward for Africa recovery.
Africa development tragedy and poor leadership: Another Dimension.
Many African nations are renowned with great wealth of natural resources such as oil and minerals and fertile soil for agricultural development. With these resources it would be expected that by now Africa nations would have been ranked among the developed nations of the World, but the reverse is the case. Africa is more under developed in the midst of all these wealth sources and Africa is ranked the poorest continent in the world. Africa Countries has over the years been classed as corrupt, Poor Leadership, insecure, poor, slow economy development, environment destroyers etc. This paper used Nigeria as a case study to explore how the developed nation has been a great distraction to African leaders in the implementation of development plans. The paper further argues that African leaders have not been able to clearly draw the line between a developing nation and a developed one with reference to the type of educational system practiced, manpower development, foreign policies imported / implemented, signatory to international convention communiqué and poor economy problem analysis strategies. The paper pointed out that since independence of most African countries the type of educational system practiced is not producing the required manpower needed by a developing economy and hence unemployment on the increase. It also identifies inflow of foreign policies which are not compactable with our development goals. It noted that most African leaders are often signatories to international convention which later limits the economic activities for African development. By establishing the relationship between these additional factors and development this paper tend to expand the root cause of Africa poor development growth and the way forward for Africa recovery.