We Have Failed

I have been telling myself something for a very long time that has to be brought into the open. THOSE AFRICANS WHO CAME OF AGE IN THE NINETEEN SIXTIES, AT THE DAWN OF POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE, HAVE FAILED THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. There is no reason why the richest continent in the world is teeming with the poorest people on earth. Our economical, political and developmental policies have failed the people who mattered most. And the answer can be traced to eurocentric styled education. In the immortal words of Dr Carter Goodwin Woodson, "When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his "proper place" and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary".
In a nutshell, Africans in the position of political leadership on the continent have not learned to do right for the themselves and their peoples but rather depend on the so called developmental experts from former colonial countries. What do we expect?