Africa’s problem today isn’t the climate, nature has given Africa one of the best climates in the world, though we have dry areas like the Kalahari. Africa rarely experience hurricanes, tornados , monsoon and the continent isn’t located along the pacific ring of fire. Africa isn’t facing lack of natural resources, Africa has these in huge quantities and qualities from the crude oil of Nigeria and Libya to the gold of Ghana then to diamonds of South Africa. Resources isn’t African problem . Population, isn’t low fertility ,the lands are fertile and the women fertile. Then, what can be said to be the biggest problem that has become an impediment to Africa’s development? It is leadership.





Leadership, leadership and leadership, this is the three factors that has seen Africa become an aid nation. A situation that has made Africa a laughing stock in the global community. Leadership is the reason that millions of Africans die daily on their route to Europe via the sea. Leadership is the major reason why African ladies are been used as a sex slave in European countries. It’s all boils down to ineffective leadership, as we are seeing in Gambia and tons of African countries.


There is a pressing need for practical leadership because the development of the region is contingent on the effectiveness of its leadership. There is therefore a need for developing leaders –whose goal is the pursuit of broader moral principles in the public interests at all levels of the society regardless of gender or age. Yes, gender or age and these are two things that Africa has gotten wrong. Relegating women to the background and equating age for intelligence.


Other countries of the world that are rules by young minds do have a tremendous developmental strides. People in their 40s and 50s have been noted to impact more in their society.
The Renaissance Africa had in 60 was die to young leadership of the like like Krumah of Ghana , Zik of Nigeria ,Kenyatta of Kenya or even J.Rawlings of Ghana. Ojukwu of the defunct Biafra republic saw that the republic was self sufficient in economy and other Know-how and he was in his 30! This is to show the impact of youthful thinking and the old African statement must realign to the global trends, which is young leadership.



The human mind also suffers a diminishing return as it pertains to other things. At a certain age ,the mind depreciates and cognitive skills, hampered. This always happens around the 70s and this is where most of African leaders are. Africa lacks young leaders. A role call of African leaders will tell you how old African leaders are and Africa can be said to be practising “indirect gerontocracy instead of modern democracy”.



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These are some of the men that is in charge of African development and her teeming youth. A roll call will show their ages and how their coubtries have performed .
Isaias Afwerki – 70

Ismaïl Omar Guelleh – 70

Ibrahim Keita – 71

Ibrahim Boubacar Keita – 71

Omar al-Bashir – 72

Pakalitha Mosisili – 72

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni – 72

President-elect Akufo Addo – 72

Denis Ngueso – 73

Muhammadu Buhari – 73

Jacob G. Zuma – 74

Alassane Ouattara – 74

Jose Eduardo dos Santos – 74

Teodoro Obiang Mbasogo – 74

Hage Geingob – 75

Peter Mutharika – 76

Alpha Condé – 78

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – 78

Abselaziz Bouteflika – 79

Hifikepunye Pohamba – 81

Paul Biya – 83

Beji Caid Essebsi – 90

Robert Mugabe – 92
These are the people holding Africa where she is today!

Is it a mystery we are where we’ve found ourselves? As the world is thinking on how to make planet Mars habitable and sending tourist to the moon, Africans are still battling with the simplest basics of human existence,which is leadership. Will this trend continues? Time will tell.

https://etimesafrica./2016/12/14/leadership-gerontocracy-is-africas-new-democracy/#more-3439