Our Core Challenges
The core problem in Africa is a feeling of inferiority - a slave mentality and colonial mentality, pure and simple. A closer scrutiny has revealed that this feeling of low self-esteem has totally destroyed the thought-processes of so many African leaders and elites to the point that they hate Africa and their own African people.
For instance, this feeling of inferiority clearly explains the real cause of the shameless robbery of African people by most of their own leaders and elites only to proudly hide the loot in foreign countries. Put differently, since African leaders/elites know that foreign leaders and elites do not have bank accounts and mansions in Africa; since African leaders/elites know that foreign leaders/elites consider Africa irrelevant, why are they very proud to open and maintain huge bank accounts in foreign countries? The obvious answer is slave mentality, period!
This slave mentality - this feeling of inferiority - has also prevented so many African leaders/elites from seeing the irrationality of sending millions of African money abroad several times a year just for medical checkups when it is very obvious that such funds are more than enough to build world-class hospitals in Africa.
As demonstrated by LAM, there are so many evils being unleashed upon Africa today by a feeling of inferiority. In plain language, African core problem is a mind problem, nothing more, nothing less. In actuality, Africa does not need "structural adjustment" or IMF loan, Africa needs most of its "educated" leaders/elites to think and adjust their minds; and to think and adjust their minds, their "education" must rise above inferiority complex/mental slavery/colonial mentality. African leaders and elites must put the welfare of their own people first as other leaders and elites we call "developed" or "civilized" put the welfare of their own people.
Therefore, if most African leaders/elites continue to pretend that they do not know that foreign leaders have wisely refused to open and maintain bank accounts or build mansions in Africa; if most African leaders/elites continue to shamelessly rob Africa only to proudly hide the loot abroad; if most African leaders/elites continue to build "greener pastures" abroad when their own African people have no "pasture;" if most African leaders/elites continue to allow their minds to be destroyed by mental slavery; in fact, if their minds are not liberated, such countries as Nigeria, Burundi, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya, Congo, etc, will continue to decay, remain poor and underdeveloped.
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President Mandela
""I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." Click here for details.
