1. NO INNOVATION. ONE of the strongest reasons America has continued to be an envy, admiration of the whole earth is because of her citizens who are being driven by extra-ordinary passion. In this age and dispensation, economy alone does not guarantee a nation the tag ''superpower''; rather strongest commerce plus military, global cultural influence, technology, sophisticated science, and lastly INNOVATION. I have never think of any great African in history as been really innovative; they might be freedom fighters, liberators but never pace setters. Talk about inventions there is scarcely any genius of an instrument that this continent has ever contributes to the world, and please do not mention Egypt here, because ancient Egypt was more of a middle East Empire, not African. Look at every aspects of our existence starting from our entertainers, scientists, technocrats, politicians, historians, engineers, politicians,etc you will find no trace of INNOVATION. IT IS THROUGH INNOVATION THAT AMERICA AND THE WEST ARE AHEAD OF THE REST OF THE WORLD IN LIGHT YEARS.



2. CORRUPTION; Corruption doesn't start and end with public officers, it is inbreed from the depth of our ''common'' societies. Take a look at how you beat check point, the refusal to pay tax, how you defraud your fellow country men and all that. Aside innovation, corruption is the biggest stumbling block to Africa progress; it has really eaten deep into the fabric of each of us. Corruption is part and parcel of the people of Africa and thus there is no sign that it will ever let go, hence I see no way this continent bed-ridden in slum will ever develop.



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IGNORANCE & RELIGION: AFRICANS ARE AND WILL ALWAYS BE A SLAVE TO THE WHITES. Yes, and this statement is worth repeating over a billion times. One ironical aspect of deep relegiousness'' of Nigerians for instance is that they are one of the most immoral people on this planet. Africans do not highly regard their religious laws as they do the creeds and ''dogmas''. This accounts for why we do not critically, realistically tackle our numberless problems. Rather than taking practical, empirical approach to curb horrendous situations many of us rely on the efficacy of prayer to an abstract, deaf god far up in the sky who will just at the snap of a finger make things right. This is the greatest delusion in universal history. The Western World who brought Christianity and others to ''the monkeys'' do not behave so fanatical and possessive the way we the adopters do. If Africans continue this way, am sorry no hope for the world's darkest continent.



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NARCISSISM- YEA, THIS HAS BECOME AFRICANS' PLAGUE OVERNIGHT AND NAIRALAND IS A BIG PROOF OF THAT. NARCISSISITS are the worstest delusional people on earth. THEY ALSO PLAY THE BLAME GAME SO WELL AND ARE NOT REALISTS. For a perfect picture of who such personalities are, critically examine the life of Chinua Achebe's classic Things Fall Apart's protagonist, OKONKWO. A narcissisist believes in himself so FALSELY; he is a paranoia, a MEGALOMANOID; to him his strengths, prowess, abilities, talents are the greatest; he believes in himself so well and is overly self confident; he passionately believes others are inferior to him and get highly irritated when he is corrected, but behind these feelings of power and self resilience is a shattered scummy, rabble, inferior scum who is so insecure so that he suspects that everyone is his enemy at the slightest turn. Deep down win thin he knows he is contemptible, weak and an inferior scallywagt. The show of guts displayed all around is only a smoke screen for a personality of a whole different characteristics. He is an oxymoronish paradox of a diplomat. Catch an evidence of this on such threads in Naira land such as Nigerians blast US over the calling of Nano Silver pesticide, Nigeria, The Hope of the Black Race, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, The CIA created Boko Haram, Doctors Discharged Four Ebola Recovered Patients, etc, etc. Its now so easy to blame America who we should be looking up to as mentor whenever we fall, or whenever they speak about us for good or for bad. Our self-hatred has grown out of hand and now spreading so fast. The Wester Word is responsible for all what makes our existence smooth yet we never appreciate them but blame them for all our woes. They are genius and deserve all the praise of the world. This is not politics or propaganda, this is freak in reality.




Except we stop being narcissisists, overly religious, corrupt, dumb, blame ''traders'', 80% of this continent, especially NIGERIA, will remain underdeveloped to time indefinite.

I think one major factor that kept Africa behind is our Cultural mentality. When the mind is held hostage by cultural beliefs system and tradition, Innovation and the ability to create new ideas becomes an uphill task.
Every developmental idea starts from the mind. We must get rid of our negative mindset if we desire progress and economic development.

Op, all these are unnecessary. Nothing contribute to our woes as Africans beside LEADERSHIP. Take it or not, the potentials, right mentality and the spirit is there to match our counterparts, but the leadership to engineered the process remains one missing rib to get us up and running. Ever wonder why Africans always does better outside their shores where the elements of gov't is working? But please, stay away from religion, is a personal thing that has nothing to do with Africa's growth. That one religion is extreme doesn't mean another is the same. Nice observation anyway.

Lordlexyy: Op, all these are unnecessary. Nothing contribute to our woes as Africans beside LEADERSHIP. Take it or not, the potentials, right mentality and the spirit is there to match our counterparts, but the leadership to engineered the process remains one missing rib to get us up and running. Ever wonder why Africans always does better outside their shores where the elements of gov't is working? But please, stay away from religion, is a personal thing that has nothing to do with Africa's growth. That one religion is extreme doesn't mean another is the same. Nice observation anyway.

I cannot but agree with you.

I still believe that we can be better off by far if we stop passing blames


and face issues head on (consturctive criticism)

still doesn't mean the western world don't have a role to play in some


of our woes or predicaments


But we should let ourselves out of their shackles and move on

The main reason why we are undeveloped is because of CORRUPTION 95% of our leaders are not interested in developing Africa they are only interested in their pockets . Until corruption is removed or eradicated before we can start thinking of development in AFrica

You didn't mention inferiority complex?
Even exhibited by you in this short post.
I mean you called Africans MONKEYS!

You're beyond redemption in your 'white man worship'.

You made some valid points nevertheless.

[size=15pt]sexzskil: You are an uneducated prostit.ute who hates black people, as you've shown on this forum several times.. Go and educate yourself before pointing your nasty, dirty fingers at Africans, 99.9% of whom are far more intelligent and productive than a non-entity, ignorant, brainless maggot like you. As for Egypt, kindly keep your illiterate, school dropout self from any discussions or debates relating to the history of Egypt. You don't even know your own village or street's history, so keep out of Egypt, you brain dead, ignorant illiterate talking rubbish through your stinking anus..[/size]

ROSSIKE: [size=15pt]sexzskil: You are an uneducated prostit.ute who hates black people, as you've shown on this forum several times.. Go and educate yourself before pointing your nasty, dirty fingers at Africans, 99.9% of whom are far more intelligent and productive than a non-entity, ignorant, brainless maggot like you. As for Egypt, kindly keep your illiterate, school dropout self from any discussions or debates relating to the history of Egypt. You don't even know your own village or street's history, so keep out of Egypt, you brain dead, ignorant illiterate talking rubbish through your stinking anus..[/size]

You are highly misinformed. Shove that shitty Afrocentrism up your ass and face reality. Here is a proof that Ancient Egypt was never in Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDwAsmGHOvE

Africa don suffer sha. See even this 2 kobo prostitut thinks her opinion needs to be heard.
Abeg I need half and half, come and carry out your calling.