WHY AFRICA IS 25 YEARS BEHIND THE DEVELOPED WORLD?


AFRICAN LEADERS



Abdoulaye Wade ( Senegal )- age 83

Hosni Mubarak ( Egypt ) - age 82

Robert Mugabe ( Zimbabwe ) - age 86

Hifikepunye Pohamba ( Namibia ) - age 74

Rupiah Banda ( Zambia ) - age 73

Mwai Kibaki ( Kenya ) - age 71

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ( Liberia ) - age 75

Colonel Gaddafi ( Libya ) - age 68

Jacob Zuma ( South Africa ) - age 68

Bingu Wa Mtalika (Malawi) - age 76

John Evans Atta-Mills (Ghana) - age 67


Average Age: ======================= 75.6

Approximately 76 years
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THE FIRST WORLD


Barrack Obama ( USA ) - age 48

David Cameron ( UK ) - age 43

Dimitri Medvedev ( Russia ) - age 45

Stephen Harper ( Canada ) - age 51

Julia Gillard ( Australia ) - age 49

Nicolas Sarkozy ( France ) - age 55

Luis Zapatero ( Spain ) - age 49

Jose Socrates ( Portugal ) - age 53

Angela Merkel ( Germany ) - age 56

Herman Van Rompuy ( Belgium ) - age 62


Average Age: ==================== 51.1

Approximately 51 years

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DIFFERENCE: ==================== 25 years



GUYS, HOW DO WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS OLD SQUAD ?!!

This has been discussed ad nauseam!

Very Simple


Galavanize enough youths to murder all this senile old retards - who think power is a birthright.

Volence taketh for force

wow!!

their age makes NO DIFFERENCE, it's their state of mind that is the problem.
Africa may be 25yrs behind but all these guys are shoulder to shoulder with the west when it comes to wealthy individuals.

MRbrownJAY:

their age makes NO DIFFERENCE, it's their state of mind that is the problem.
Africa may be 25yrs behind but all these guys are shoulder to shoulder with the west when it comes to wealthy individuals.

age make a lot of difference, how would fresh minds come and implement modern thing, better ideals etc

most of this old men are still in the 70's

blacksta:

Very Simple


Galavanize enough youths to murder all this senile old retards - who think power is a birthright.

Volence taketh for force

the kingdom of africa has so much suffer violence

MRbrownJAY:

their age makes NO DIFFERENCE, it's their state of mind that is the problem.
Africa may be 25yrs behind but all these guys are shoulder to shoulder with the west when it comes to wealthy individuals.

You are wrong


Your so called Information Minister claims GEJ brought FB to Nigeria - I doubt a young and fresh mind would make that kind of mistake.

seriously, i can imagine if we av d likes of fashola, donald duke in almost every state nd has a president.
we need technocrats in this country

That is, because Africa has a gerontocratic society, in which elders are seen as all-knowing. Plus, the elders will not listen to someone who is younger than them. It is based on traditional African culture.

How old are our thieving governors, legislators and d entire political class? They are of d same age with d guys from d west. How old was mandela when he became S.A president? Our criminal justice system is weak along side with that of most african contries and our values gone coupled with poverty which African leaders has deployed as an instrument of oppression. The factors militating against good leadership in Africa is just too numerious to mention. Its painful though.

blacksta:

You are wrong
Your so called Information Minister claims GEJ brought FB  to Nigeria - I doubt a young and fresh mind would make that kind of mistake.

and what has that got to do with the subject at hand? is that whats making Africa's lack of BASIC HEALTH CARE, DECENT JOBS, FOOD or DECENT HOUSING?!  pls dont derail this thread for your own political agenda.

the state of mind of ALL these African leader (and most Africans) has nothing to do with their age, whether old or young, a greedy selfish thief will always be a greedy selfish criminal!

each for their own and god for all, thats Africa for you!!!

Africa is 100 years behind and not 25.

toni tone said:

AFRICAN LEADERS



Abdoulaye Wade ( Senegal )-            age 83

Hosni Mubarak ( Egypt )  -                age 82

Robert Mugabe ( Zimbabwe )  -         age 86

Hifikepunye Pohamba ( Namibia )  -   age 74

Rupiah Banda ( Zambia )    -                age 73

Mwai Kibaki ( Kenya )    -                    age 71

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ( Liberia ) -         age 75

Colonel Gaddafi ( Libya )    -                  age 68

Jacob Zuma ( South Africa )   -               age 68

Bingu Wa Mtalika (Malawi) -                  age 76

John Evans Atta-Mills (Ghana) -              age 67


Average Age: ======================= 75.6

Approximately 76 years
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THE FIRST WORLD


Barrack Obama ( USA )  -            age 48

David Cameron ( UK )     -             age 43

Dimitri Medvedev ( Russia ) -        age 45

Stephen Harper ( Canada )    -       age 51

Julia Gillard ( Australia )         -     age 49

Nicolas Sarkozy ( France )      -       age 55

Luis Zapatero ( Spain )            -       age 49

Jose Socrates ( Portugal )        -       age 53

Angela Merkel ( Germany )     -       age 56

Herman Van Rompuy ( Belgium ) - age 62

This is a VERY MISLEADING presentation.

You conveniently OMITTED the old European leaders such as Berlusconi,  Aníbal Cavaco Silva  of Portugal (68)
and Cyprus president Papadopoulos  (74), and OMITTED the YOUNG African leaders, like Goodluck Jonathan, Joseph Kabila, Yayi Boni of Benin, and Ernest Koroma of Sierra Leone - all in their 40s and 50s.

All in order to present a heavily biased, distorted, anti-African conclusion.

If you're trying to point fingers at Africans, the least you can do is be honest yourself.

Because we have people with diff cultural perceptive who believe that their forefathers have granted them [i]undeniable [/i]rights to never change.

25 years or ONE THOUSAND MILLENNIUM?

Its not with the age.

Goerge Bush Snr (65-69yrs), Ronald Reagan (70-79yrs) ruled America and their country prospered

dayokanu said:

Its not with the age.

Goerge Bush Snr (65-69yrs), Ronald Reagan (70-79yrs) ruled America and their country prospered

America is not ruled by its presidents. Those are just figureheads and puppets.  The country would have ''prospered'' at the time it did regardless of who was president.

Its because of Ojukwu

@ Topic: Are you serious? the answer is so obvious.
Africa was and still is being robbed.
End of story.

MzDarkSkin:

@ Topic: Are you serious? the answer is so obvious.
Africa was and still is being robbed.
End of story.

Robbed by who? by themselves?

@poster, lol. .nice one. All these geriatric so-called leaders need to step aside before that country, Nigeria and Africa in general, can progress. Unfortunately, I don't have much hope for the youth either. It's a sad situation.

^^doesnt matter who does the robbing, the point is it is and has been.
Africans, Europeans, Asians and Mid. Easterns are to blame for this.

yes take all d oldies out,let d young and agile kidnappers,armed bandits and yahoo yahoo boys take over. . .Nigeria will change 4 d worse better

And just to correct the OP ,Herman Van Rompuy is not the prime minister of Begium anymore, he is currently the President of the EU council, not that it matters or  skew your analysis.

I will however agree with the poster that said you ommitted several other presidents/ prime ministers that could have impacted on the average age in both regions. I personally do not think age is an important factor in determining the performance of a leader, the most crucial element is the political and institutional framework of the country, for instance the USA, UK and most developed countries could have a leader of any age but will still function because of an established system that ensures accountabilty in the form of checks and balances, hence, no matter how noble the intentions of a policy recommendation by a leader might seem, it still must pass through a rigorous democratic process except in extenuating circumstances where the leader can use veto powers.

Unfortunately the reverse is the case in most African countries where politics is shambolic and self interest is the main motivation for holding public office. I think that is the bane of governance in Africa, and not age.

@Rossike

Okay take all the bio-data of leaders in Africa, i mean all and plot a simple pie chart or histogram of their age group, say 40-50, 60-70, and > 80 and do same with the developed world, i.e. Europe and USA including Japan, then do a like for like comparison, you will surely be amazed at the outcomes, it would definitely not be different from the main theme of this topic

Perfect calculation!

ROSSIKE:

toni tone said:



This is a VERY MISLEADING presentation.

You conveniently OMITTED the old European leaders such as Berlusconi, Aníbal Cavaco Silva of Portugal (68)
and Cyprus president Papadopoulos (74), and OMITTED the YOUNG African leaders, like Goodluck Jonathan, Joseph Kabila, Yayi Boni of Benin, and Ernest Koroma of Sierra Leone - all in their 40s and 50s.

All in order to present a heavily biased, distorted, anti-African conclusion.

If you're trying to point fingers at Africans, the least you can do is be honest yourself.

Thanks for observing.
Infact, youngies like Bankole have proven to be the reason why age is not an issue in african leadership. Is Bankole not the one supervising the house where people pay themselves billions at the expense of national development?