Africa needs to fix continent, richest people are politicians

[Nickbryan10]

        Forget Dangote and the rest of the billionaires, the richest people in Africa are politicians. Africans need to reevaluate and rethink their system, so much power is given to the politicians and without any checks or balances. How can an ex-governor not be tried in court for his mischievous activities because there is a written document that said so who signed the documents is it the populace? They loot millions of dollars and stack them up for their families whereas the masses are suffering.
        They even go as far as banning the trading of cryptocurrencies because they feel people might benefit from it. When the world is enjoying it. African needs to be taken to the hospital and given proper treatment because they are moving backward. More strength to their youth as many are still thriving in the harsh environment.

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[arwin100]

        Forget Dangote and the rest of the billionaires, the richest people in Africa are politicians. Africans need to reevaluate and rethink their system, so much power is given to the politicians and without any checks or balances. How can an ex-governor not be tried in court for his mischievous activities because there is a written document that said so who signed the documents is it the populace? They loot millions of dollars and stack them up for their families whereas the masses are suffering.
        They even go as far as banning the trading of cryptocurrencies because they feel people might benefit from it. When the world is enjoying it. African needs to be taken to the hospital and given proper treatment because they are moving backward. More strength to their youth as many are still thriving in the harsh environment.

If politicians are the only people rich in your country then why people still elect them? On next election people should erase them on their balots and find those politician who have political will to make your country better. Its no use at all if citizens will continue to trust them since your country cannot advance if corrupt officials are still on tgeir sets.

[zanezane]

I agree, if the people are continuously oppressed by the rich people, then I think that a revolt that will lynch those in higher seats is a necessary thing. The only problem is that they have to make the police and the military side to them in the revolt against the 1% because if not, unnecessary bloodshed is going to happen.

[Vishnu.Reang]

From what I have seen, the problem lies with the African voters. They always elect politicians based on their ethnicity and religion, without caring about their skills. As a result, a lot of undeserving people become the presidents. And when someone who is highly qualified is elected to that post, within a short time he is either ousted in a military coup, or killed by his own people. Check what happened to Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba and Haile Selassie.

[pinggoki]

One of the biggest problem of the African people is that they have one of the most bad government and anyone's can say it directly as they are seeing it into the economy of the Africa, another thing is also that the voters are the first one who have the main problem here because they are the one who are choosing or picking on who they wants to lead them. If they are just choosing and picking wisely the ones that they want to be the leader then probably this will not be happen.

[Mauser]

        Forget Dangote and the rest of the billionaires, the richest people in Africa are politicians. Africans need to reevaluate and rethink their system, so much power is given to the politicians and without any checks or balances. How can an ex-governor not be tried in court for his mischievous activities because there is a written document that said so who signed the documents is it the populace? They loot millions of dollars and stack them up for their families whereas the masses are suffering.
        They even go as far as banning the trading of cryptocurrencies because they feel people might benefit from it. When the world is enjoying it. African needs to be taken to the hospital and given proper treatment because they are moving backward. More strength to their youth as many are still thriving in the harsh environment.

If the richest people in a country are politicians than something is wrong. That is the first sign that there is a huge problem with corruption. Sure politicians should be paid well, but never more than other people in the country. If they are able to withdraw wealth from the country into their own pockets than something needs to change. Step one would be to make international pressure against these politicians, like don't allow their money to be stored in Switzerland or some other tax havens. Step two would be to inform the local population about the corruption so they will demand a change in the ruling party.

[Gozie51]

If you made that statement about politicians being the most richest people you may not be wrong and that is because of corruption is high and no accountability. The legal system too that is suppose stand in to protect or prosecute offenders are not doing this job, this may also not be surprising because the legal system is part of the whole part of the system. Everything that is done in most African countries are based on corruption.

Election is all based on corruption. To even acquire or indicate interest in contesting for political office is whole lot of money and IMO, this is where I think African countries are getting it wrong. The politicians see politics as a means of business and because of the "investment" , they would corrupt the system a lot to get richer than they were when contesting the election. This is not fair and most people see politics as a business on its own instead of trying to build factories for manufacturing that will benefit larger people and add to the country's GDP. Politics don't produce any product to the economy but self satisfaction and embezzlement.

[avikz]

        Forget Dangote and the rest of the billionaires, the richest people in Africa are politicians. Africans need to reevaluate and rethink their system, so much power is given to the politicians and without any checks or balances. How can an ex-governor not be tried in court for his mischievous activities because there is a written document that said so who signed the documents is it the populace? They loot millions of dollars and stack them up for their families whereas the masses are suffering.
        They even go as far as banning the trading of cryptocurrencies because they feel people might benefit from it. When the world is enjoying it. African needs to be taken to the hospital and given proper treatment because they are moving backward. More strength to their youth as many are still thriving in the harsh environment.

Majority of Africa and a part of Asia are still living under dictatorship. That seriously needs fixing. But the question is how? Armed coupes and civil war is not a solution rather such kind of rebellion usually leads to more suffering. The only long term solution is education. Please educate your child well so that he can first do well in life and encourage their upcoming generations to do so.

There's no easy or overnight solution to end dictatorship. It can only happen with knowledge and education. Otherwise, nothing will improve and billionaire politicians will keep on eating out the juice from economy.

Like any other "partly free" country, India is also moving into the same direction and the current government is trying their best to destroy the education system of the country. Because they understand freedom comes from knowledge. It's easy to enslave an uneducated person than an educated person.

[Fesatmas]

I don't like politicians who seem to side with the people, then torture us with all kinds of taxes. in Africa they should not be elected, they are not even interested in voting at elections. I am confused by the tradition of crazy politicians who come when they need the voice of the people, so that millions of hopes are kept on his shoulders. but this is a phenomenon that occurs everywhere, not only in Africa.

There needs to be an evaluation of the political actions there, they need to update the constitutional rules. it is very unfortunate, how miserable the African people are there.

Africa must get out of this system, and try to urge the government to re-legalize crypto exchange, this is for the sake of Africa's dignity as one of the largest countries in the world that lacks financial freedom.

[just_Alice]

It's not only in Africa, there's a lot of countries with the corrupted governments. I'd even say that every government is corrupted, the only question is - to what extent. Some countries, like Sudan and Venezuela, are extremely corrupted, politicians are okay with robbing the country with billions of dollars, while others, e.g. Argentina, Greece, Italy are much less corrupted, but still, people are being robbed and not all the money is oriented to the development, as it is supposed to be.

And it's been going on for centuries with different nations, I don't think much can be done about it. We all know the stories, when the new President, which promised to end the corruption takes power and then simply becomes one of the people he used to fight. The same happens after the revolutions.

Something needs to change deeply in people's minds, money changes things, affects people in the way they could have never expected. Only if people start valuing freedom, moral standards, and each other more than money - corruption can be eradicated. But until then, it is what it is.

[jrrsparkles]

They got money and power so who is going to bring changes in the system?

AFAIK, now people from Africa is trying to evolve themselves by studying and working which may bring a change but it needs few generations atleast to bring the countries with free from corruption.

[Upgrade00]

I assume you are of the opinion that the wealth of politicians is not accounted for and they are not put on the list of richest people, because the top recorded richest people in Africa are not actually politicians, but business oriented individuals, like in all other parts of the world.

Corruption on the other hand is a known issue which is faced by all nations, but is high in some African countries and negatively affects the populace.

[doomloop]

        Forget Dangote and the rest of the billionaires, the richest people in Africa are politicians. Africans need to reevaluate and rethink their system, so much power is given to the politicians and without any checks or balances. How can an ex-governor not be tried in court for his mischievous activities because there is a written document that said so who signed the documents is it the populace? They loot millions of dollars and stack them up for their families whereas the masses are suffering.
        They even go as far as banning the trading of cryptocurrencies because they feel people might benefit from it. When the world is enjoying it. African needs to be taken to the hospital and given proper treatment because they are moving backward. More strength to their youth as many are still thriving in the harsh environment.

This is true in many places of the world, thats why people try to be a politician in many nations. You can look at the asian continent, starting with China where the leaders and the party basically owns half of everything in the entire nation, and check out many many nations there where politicians are the richest people in the country. You can check latin america where politicians are once again the richest people in the nation.

You can check old soviet block where there are many politicians that are rich so its rooted in europe a bit as well. There are few nations where richest people are not politicians, sure the young president of finland may not be rich at all, but those type of situations are very rare doesn't reflect the reality. Which is why I think its quite obvious that we should not be looking at this as something that would be only limited to africa.

[Sithara007]

I assume you are of the opinion that the wealth of politicians is not accounted for and they are not put on the list of richest people, because the top recorded richest people in Africa are not actually politicians, but business oriented individuals, like in all other parts of the world.

Corruption on the other hand is a known issue which is faced by all nations, but is high in some African countries and negatively affects the populace.

You are wrong. The politicians hide their wealth, so it is not known to anyone. On the other hand, the businessmen can't hide their wealth since they deal with publicly traded corporations or private ventures which undergo third party audit. The politicians mostly get their wealth in the form of lobbying or bribes and this is done in a discrete manner, through offshore accounts. For example, the total wealth of Muammar Gaddafi before he was overthrown was estimated at $200 billion. Hosni Mubarak was worth an estimated $70 billion. Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria managed to steal $13 billion from the Nigerian oil revenue in just one year (1992). No African businessmen will come close to these people in terms of wealth.

[goldade]

        Forget Dangote and the rest of the billionaires, the richest people in Africa are politicians. Africans need to reevaluate and rethink their system, so much power is given to the politicians and without any checks or balances. How can an ex-governor not be tried in court for his mischievous activities because there is a written document that said so who signed the documents is it the populace? They loot millions of dollars and stack them up for their families whereas the masses are suffering.
        They even go as far as banning the trading of cryptocurrencies because they feel people might benefit from it. When the world is enjoying it. African needs to be taken to the hospital and given proper treatment because they are moving backward. More strength to their youth as many are still thriving in the harsh environment.

This is very true in many African countries especially a country like Nigeria. The politicians, even though elected in a democratic manner, adopt the dictatorship manner and are more or less dictators.
They don't care about the masses welfare. They don't provide any infractures neither security for the people. There have been a lot of cases of insecurity in Nigeria especially in the North. All they care about is how to amass wealth for themselves and their relations
The problem, however, still remains with the people because every election period,  they still elect the wrong people for some money.

[Kong Hey Pakboy]

They got money and power so who is going to bring changes in the system?

AFAIK, now people from Africa is trying to evolve themselves by studying and working which may bring a change but it needs few generations atleast to bring the countries with free from corruption.

The problem is easily solvable if the organizations that was helping Africa was really helping. Just because they got the money and power doesn't mean that they will be untouchable because there are revolts that did that thing, French Revolution and Bolshevik Revolution are some of the of prominenet ones. If people starts knowing that they aee being oppressed they will eventually stand up for themselves.

[bryant.coleman]

The problem is easily solvable if the organizations that was helping Africa was really helping. Just because they got the money and power doesn't mean that they will be untouchable because there are revolts that did that thing, French Revolution and Bolshevik Revolution are some of the of prominenet ones. If people starts knowing that they aee being oppressed they will eventually stand up for themselves.

The problem is that those people who are protesting ends up dead or go missing. Do you know what happened to Ken Saro-Wiwa, after he organized protests against the dictator General Sani Abacha in Nigeria? Or do you know what happened to Fikile Ntshangase who protested against environmental pollution in South Africa? Politicians hold too much power and if you stand against them, then be ready to risk everything including your life.

[Wexnident]

It's already a well-known fact that corruption runs deep in Africa. Yes, I believe that the citizens also want to change those in seats of power, but it's been too long that the power is rooted quite deeply imo. That doesn't mean that it's impossible though.  I'm guessing that they just need someone to actually lead in the forefront though it's a lot easier to say it than actually do it.

On the note of banning crypto, try as they might it's still close to impossible to actually completely ban it. Those who want to use it will use it, and they'd honestly find ways. Cause if it isn't possible, then heck im pretty sure their corrupt methods also wouldn't be possible.

[Kong Hey Pakboy]

The problem is easily solvable if the organizations that was helping Africa was really helping. Just because they got the money and power doesn't mean that they will be untouchable because there are revolts that did that thing, French Revolution and Bolshevik Revolution are some of the of prominenet ones. If people starts knowing that they aee being oppressed they will eventually stand up for themselves.

The problem is that those people who are protesting ends up dead or go missing. Do you know what happened to Ken Saro-Wiwa, after he organized protests against the dictator General Sani Abacha in Nigeria? Or do you know what happened to Fikile Ntshangase who protested against environmental pollution in South Africa? Politicians hold too much power and if you stand against them, then be ready to risk everything including your life.

If enough people are fighting, it will be difficult to dispose of the heads of the protest, may the people who fought and die protesting for changes become a catalyst to wake more people up. The other problem that I forgot to mention is that if the armed forces are on the side of the people and in that way, it will be close to no bloodshed. Also, I think this leaders of the protest knows the risk because they still do it.

[sheenshane]

I don’t think that this only applies in Africa.  It might apply to almost all of the countries in the world and presumably, the main thing we had to rethink is to give rights to the government to have control of our countries like 100%.

Look what happened, I went to a government agency lately in our country.  It's our National SEC but looks what happened?
They wanted to collect money and they would say it is for insurance, but if you know the law same as me, insurance is not a must, you can decline the offer, but they insisted that it was mandatory.  And look, I escalated it and earned an apology from them.  I just imagine what if it was a different person who doesn’t have an idea with legal yet?