An Igbo proverb says ‘’There are various leaves in the bush, but people go in to look for Okazi leaves’’.

If Africa is resource rich, why can’t its people sift through the bush leaves to get that Okazi leaf to prepare the Okazi soup? Human resource

Why is African governments not challenging its people to use the resources around them to build that world class infrastructure, services, processes that are ingredient for development?

Why do Africans wait for foreigners to build their roads, when road construction is an old technology and the resources for road building readily available?

Why do African elite fly to foreign destination for Medicare when there are highly qualified Africans in Africa and all over the world who could run a sophisticated healthcare system for Africans?

Why can’t Africa feed itself when there is arable land to cultivate all over Africa?

I once argued, there is no resources needed to develop Africa that cannot be found in Africa.

How do you cultivate that Okazi leaf in large quantity so Okazi soup is available for everybody?

What do you think?

Corruption.

(1) Greedy leaders


(2)importation of commodities we can comfortably produce eg toothpick

(3)leaders been slave to the white man


(4) followers without vision ie going to vote somebody into power because of #50 salt

Because of rampant corruption.

Because African leaders knows how to bury money underground, instead of investing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKp2xpVllgQ

Africa is poor inspite being Resource Rich because of USA & western countries

Black mind

wrong policy

Resources ≠ wealth.

Africa lacks (Nigeria in paticular): Economic Freedom, rule of law, property right enforcement, terrible policies.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHfsk8iL_C0

African are rich in resources but poor in governance

Africa is poor because you have rogue thieves and lunatics as leaders, plus lots of uneducated gullible and hopelessly senseless followers e.g Ipob etc

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The people are much like the leaders