It is a long held African Fallacy that change in leadership is the silver bullet that will solve all the nations' and continent's problems. This strips the vast majority of the entrepreneurial duty to work at bettering the lot of their people waiting for the day when the Almighty God or some telekinesis will take the life of their incumbent or usurp them from power. But sooner or later they're disillusioned when the much awaited change doesn't arrive with a change in leadership. Certainly leadership ought to be an important component to the "Development Equation" but in most African countries it has been made the sole predictor, and with this fallacy in mind we're all hands folded waiting for magic solutions.
It is time to forget this governance obsession and return to nation building. It is time to consider "poor leadership" a constant in the equation of development and begin to do what we need to do to advance. When good leadership meets our train having left the station it will only propel us many generations ahead. There is no problem without a solution but as long as the solution is narrowed down to some concepts called "good governance" and "democracy" which I am quite sure we wouldn't be having even in the nearest remote future we are bound to keep spinning our wheels on same spot.
Democracy is just a simple template.Its application must consider the timing,logistics, cultural values and social preferences. A copy and paste solution has never worked and will never be. It is just one of the many forms of governance, if it doesn't work then alternative forms should be a given a try.Insisting that democracy is the only solution is dogmatic and fallacious.It is time to try something else... ( Gabila Fohtung and Ignatius Esene)
It is time to forget this governance obsession and return to nation building. It is time to consider "poor leadership" a constant in the equation of development and begin to do what we need to do to advance. When good leadership meets our train having left the station it will only propel us many generations ahead. There is no problem without a solution but as long as the solution is narrowed down to some concepts called "good governance" and "democracy" which I am quite sure we wouldn't be having even in the nearest remote future we are bound to keep spinning our wheels on same spot.
Democracy is just a simple template.Its application must consider the timing,logistics, cultural values and social preferences. A copy and paste solution has never worked and will never be. It is just one of the many forms of governance, if it doesn't work then alternative forms should be a given a try.Insisting that democracy is the only solution is dogmatic and fallacious.It is time to try something else... ( Gabila Fohtung and Ignatius Esene)
