Excerpts of "Open Letter to African Leaders"

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.....I have personally been monitoring events (social, political, economic, educational, developmental, human capacity development, etc) all over the African Continent for a couple of decades now and from my objective observational and empirical analysis of events on the continent, one can conclude without any doubt that things have only gone from bad to worst in virtually all African countries (with the exception of very few African countries that have stood out as a beacon of hope in the Continent where our Leaders seems content and comfortable maintaining the despicable status quo of our ignoble past)!
Your Excellencies; the "report cards" of your stewardships ( and that of most of your like minded predecessors; with the exception of still a few Leaders like Kwame Nkrumah, Leopold Senghor, Kenneth Kaunda, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Nelson Mandela, Obafemi Awolowo, Gamal Abdel Nassar, Jerry Rawlings, Moamar Ghaddafi, etc;) to your country and citizens has been nothing to write home about over most of the past 50 years of independent African countries. The general outcome of your "brand of leadership and mindset" has been a general failure and callous waste of golden opportunities to gallantly lift Africa and Africans up to an enviable heights after independence (as some leaders elsewhere have shown us around the Global Community as being possible; e.g the Asian Tiger nations which were, sad to say, way behind most African countries in the '60s when these countries also got their independence from their own colonial masters!).
As a group (with the exception of a few); Your Excellencies have continually and consistently followed a "development/leadership template" deeply rooted in Africa's unenviable traditional past and have mostly done nothing (or maybe made only cosmetic/superficial token gestures) to remove entrenched impediments to Africa's transformation which would have facilitated/promote a massive human capacity development and empowerment of Africans (the engine room of any sustainable socio economic development and growth) and which would have subsequently lift vast millions out of humanly engineered and entrenched poverty, deprivations, misery, abuse and sub human existence not much different from what obtains all over the African Continent in year "1220"!
This "development/leadership template" is what was used in centuries gone by by our "forefathers" and leaders like you folks, to keep their people subjected to their continued autocratic rule and exploitation of their hapless subjects; the same despicable "template" facilitated the evil and wicked slave trade; actively promote the inhuman trade of human beings as "commodities" and did virtually nothing to end this ignominious era internally! This same "template" facilitated the colonization of virtually the whole of the African continent (with a few exception of courageous leaders who vigorously resisted the colonialists exploitative adventure/incursion into Africa)! The same "leadership/development template" gave rise to neo-colonial Africa and African leaders who took (and are still taking) a perverted delight in keeping their people poor, unenlightened, uneducated, deprived, dependent and internally enslaved - since these "modern day" leaders are no longer able to "sell" their people across the ocean as "human cargoes", they now do so internally and pretend to the outside world that slavery no longer exists on the continent!!!
I am totally baffled beyond comprehension trying to fathom the rational or logic behind the unimaginable salaries & allowances "Your Excellencies" and other elected or appointed leaders allocate to yourselves from the commonwealths of your nations (uncountable times more than what hard working leaders with concrete proofs of achievements receives in developed nations where promoting the well being of their citizens is a leaders first and only duty!).

.....watch out for full letter soon.

Yours in the quest for a better Nigerian nation, African Continent & Global Community;

'Gbolahan 'Gbolaga Olubowale MSW,
President & CEO,
Nigeria & Africa Renaissance Initiative Inc,
USA.
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