THE GIANT OF AFRICA

in #politics7 years ago

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Africa is so richly blessed with every good thing God created!
All the natural resources that are beneficial to man are in Africa!

Africa has the human capital more than most continents in the world, no thanks to lack of education on birth control, culture of multiple wives, and tradition.
Africa is not ranked among the continents that are bedeviled with natural disasters such as EARTHQUAKES, TSUNAMIS, CYCLONES, WILD FIRES, or even HURRICANES! These natural disasters happens to other continents but they soon shake it off and continue their lives! They rebuild and move on as if nothing happened.

I will use three countries in Africa as an example or a case study!

NIGERIA, SOUTH AFRICA AND ZAMBIA.

We in Africa, we create our own natural disaster!

From RELIGION, TRIBAL SUPRIMACY, POLITICAL SEAT-TIGHT IN POWER, to CORRUPTION (official and traditional), BIGOTRY and IMPUNITY.

We never recover from our own disaster, we rather grow in it. The younger ones learning from the older ones who never retires! We even modify, and digitalise it.
In some African countries now, the only way to survive is just to be corrupt!

Those who are in public offices find ways to enrich themselves at the expence of the masses, while those in the private sectors cut corners in whatever ways to maximize profit still at the expense of the same masses.

The result is that those who are so traumatized, cheated, oppressed take up arms in the name of agitations, ethnic rivalries and religious struggles!

While the government take these struggles as a political tool to syphone more money from the system, use the ethnic struggle as a campaign agenda to enthrench themselves.

The system is so cabalized, woven together that if an angel should come down to correct the ills, that angel will forget his name and become corrupt!

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Nigeria is the biggest most populated black nation on earth!
Nigeria has almost all the mineral resources, and so blessed with human resources.

The people are so intelligent and smart and educated, but they have never been blessed with a good leader. They have a recycling bunch of leaders who have dominated the corridors of power since over 50years ago.
Therefore, their thoughts, way of governance, approach to development and management of resources are archaic and pre-analogue!

There is so much money in Nigeria that people have stolen and stolen, it is so much that the amount of stolen fund cannot be counted in the national currency, you can only quantify it in the U.S dollars!

One government comes with their chronies, steal for 8years and leave the stage for another group to device newer ways of converting the national wealth to themselves!

The average Nigerian citizen has no trust in government and has no hope for the future!

The average citizen has to provide his own security, build his personal borehole to get water, construct his own road, educate his own child in the private school and medicate himself! No hope in government. This just to say but a few.
Can we refer to a country like the above as the giant of Africa?

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South Africa is one of the youngest democracy in Africa. The presence of the white indegenes have made development different and life more attractive than other parts of Africa. But since the independence of South Africa, has the nation been developing generally or deteriorating? Judge by yourself. See my post on South African politics!
https://steemit.com/christianity/@rabiuaudu/the-mystery-of-life-7f67aaf85b7f9
With the Xenophobic attacks on other Africans, the high crime rate which is known to the whole world the unstable economic activities; Will you consider South Africa as the giant of Africa?

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My next country of consideration is Zambia. This little country mostly thrive on tourism! Apart from Copper/Cobalt which is one of the things they are rich in, they are not an oil producing nation neither are they special in any way. But their currency, the 'kwacha' is doing better in the international market than most African countries!

They have relative peace compared to nations of insurgencies and agitations. They are not a terror- ridden country!

One thing I know about Zambia, is that the President handed over his country to God to help Him!
Is this the case of 'WHEN THE RIGHTEOUS ARE IN AUTHORITY, THE PEOPLE REJOICE?'

Proverbs 29:2 NLT
"When the godly are in authority, the people rejoice. But when the wicked are in power, they groan."

To me, I believe that the little DAVID with just five smooth stones in a sling is to be feared more than the heavy Goliath with a coat of mail and sword like weaver's beam going to fall!

Because a living DOG is better than a dead LION.
@rabiuaudu

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In your write up, you wrote that nigeria is blessed with intelligent, smart & edicated people. I want to ask, if thepeople are so intellingent & smart, where are there leaders from? We must stop deceiving our selves. I read a post that said late president Nelson Mandela was hated by his with teacher & the teacher sort different avenue to display his racial act towards Nelson. "One day he (teacher) asked young Nelson Mandella what he will choose if given to bags one containing wisdom and another containing money and Young Nelson Mandella said he will choose the bag of money . The teacher replied telling the class that he would choose w isdom, he wanted everyone to see that Nelson Madella was not as intellingent as he profess to be, young Nelson Mandella looked at this teacher ,shrugged his shoulder and said " everyone choose what they dont have" this made the teacher very angry, the week the teacher gave the class and examination to write and while marking Nelson's script he wrote the word"idiot" and handed over to Nelson , when young Nelson saw what his teacher wrote on his script, he thought for a while and not wanting to be rude quietly went to teacher who was already waiting to see his reaction, young Nelson Mandella said " excuse me professeur, you wrote your name on my script but forgot to write my scores" .
That' s what i call intellingence & smartness.
Our leaders steall our money to develop other people's country, when commoners try to make their own houses & family better, thieves, witches kill or destroy them.
The wolrd thieves and witches are english words so they are their also, but these occultic groups work for the development of their houses,family and countries.. must tell ourselve the truth, " do we know what we want?" If yes then lets think of doing the right thing.

Great comment my friend!
We have the culture of seat tight by African leaders! When people like Robbert Mugabe held to power for many decades with all the apparatus of government, how do you express your intelligence when you are not given the opportunity?
I just pray that somehow we find a way in Africa.

Maybe, we will have to use Babatunde Idiagbon's style.. to incoperate discipline., if a Babagida will not plot a coup.
May God help us.

I don't think Nigeria is ripe for democracy! We will keep learning for the next century. We keep pretending that we are a young democracy and we embark on the politics of greed and self satisfaction.

Very interesting.

Thanks! I'm so grateful!