Africa needs to fix continent, richest people are politicians

[hannahB4]

" Forget Dangote and the rest of the billionaires" why should we, they are normal people like you and me who worked for their money and reached the level they are now. For the politicians why wouldn't it be so with the amount they earn as salary and other allowances that accompanied the position and also after leaving the position. Work for your money and make your name this should not be a bother to anyone determined to be successful in life.

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[Yatsan]

If that is the case that mostly or let us say all politicians in Africa are rich people, then maybe there is something wrong with their governance or the way they conduct their elections. When you have that massive amount of money compared to others, you are having a lot more power to make things work in favor with you, if that is what their politicians do, then there must be someone or something that must needed to start doing the change if they really wanted for it. But there could be this other reason wherein people still elect rich people for they think they have the qualifications and capabilities to lead their country.

[Sithara007]

If that is the case that mostly or let us say all politicians in Africa are rich people, then maybe there is something wrong with their governance or the way they conduct their elections. When you have that massive amount of money compared to others, you are having a lot more power to make things work in favor with you, if that is what their politicians do, then there must be someone or something that must needed to start doing the change if they really wanted for it. But there could be this other reason wherein people still elect rich people for they think they have the qualifications and capabilities to lead their country.

In many of the cases, the elections are not 100% free and fair. There is a lot of voter intimidation and fraud. On top of that, there are several countries which are controlled by military dictatorships. And even in cases the elections are completely free, a lot of Africans have the tendency to vote for the candidate according to religion or ethnicity. In a heterogenous continent such as Africa, that can create a lot of issues, when compared to the relatively homogenous European or Asian nations.

[wxa7115]

What do you think is going to be a solution to a problem like this? The rate of corruption in government in Africa is really high. I think this is not something that are just going to do themselves, they are going to need help from other countries to solve a situation like this. I think it’s really time that everyone starts calling them out (people in power) and holding them responsible for the evil things and making sure that they don’t go unpunished. Just this year I have seen a lot of things that has happened on Africa, from ENDSARS and police brutality, to a lot more.

The government doesn’t care about what people are going through, they are just only interested in stealing funds and nothing more than that. They send their children to better countries to live and study have a better life, while they make the life of people in their country to be miserable.

I do not agree with this, those countries already receive a lot of help and other governments do everything they can to help the population of those countries and yet it is not enough and it will never be enough.

The population of those countries needs to stop this on their own, it is not going to be easy but nothing that is worth anything ever is, they need to put politicians in power that actually care about the population, this is a process that even if it started today it will take decades to be accomplished, which is one of the reasons no one wants to start the process and they prefer to let things continue as they have always been.

[Agbe]

Africa needs to fix continent, richest people are politicians

Huh!!! I like the content of the thread but the title is something else. If I may restructure it, it will be like this, "Africans need to fix the Continent, the Richest People are the Politicians". Africa being a Continent can not fix itself but the people (Africans) can fix the Continent.

Prior to the OP's content, I agree with him to some extent. Mostly in Nigeria where I come from, politics is the only means of getting wealth so everyone is going or joining politics to take their share of the National wealth by abandoning the national resources to be decay. The worst them of all is, the Politicians when they promised heaven and Earth to the poor Masses and the electorates vote them to power and would forget their promises and the people as we. African politicians are devil incanates. There are lot of Natural resources to the Continent but excluding crude oil. There is Palm Fruit, Sugar cane, Sand, Rubber, Ground nut, Fish, Timber (Trees), palm wine, fresh water etc yet, no politician is thinking of utilizing these abundance resources to create employment and developed the Continent but all of them are making the primitive accumulation from the crude oil.

As for me the solution is in hand of the electorates. Vote out all these bad politicians and replace them with genuine minded people.

[LUCKMCFLY]

If that is the case that mostly or let us say all politicians in Africa are rich people, then maybe there is something wrong with their governance or the way they conduct their elections. When you have that massive amount of money compared to others, you are having a lot more power to make things work in favor with you, if that is what their politicians do, then there must be someone or something that must needed to start doing the change if they really wanted for it. But there could be this other reason wherein people still elect rich people for they think they have the qualifications and capabilities to lead their country.

In many of the cases, the elections are not 100% free and fair. There is a lot of voter intimidation and fraud. On top of that, there are several countries which are controlled by military dictatorships. And even in cases the elections are completely free, a lot of Africans have the tendency to vote for the candidate according to religion or ethnicity. In a heterogenous continent such as Africa, that can create a lot of issues, when compared to the relatively homogenous European or Asian nations.

I think that Africa is one of the continents where it is very evident that the politicians are very corrupt, it is very similar to the politicians in Venezuela, where they do what they want with the budget of an entire country and where the people suffer from a lot of misery, this It is something that is very normal and that is a chain that will never end.

Among other things, the idea of these politicians greatly benefits those who are rich because they are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, just to give a clear example to Venezuela they sold a "socialism" where everything looks like it should be the same for everyone, and it is the biggest lie, in my personal opinion socialism will never exist, it will be communism that disguises itself in the word socialism.

[Bitstar_coin]

       
~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.

Most government are not comfortable with the idea of having crypto as an alternative payment option because of the power it gives to the ordinary people hence the reason they always threatened to ban or actually make good with the threat.

Africa is no different, the government don't want such freedom for the poor majority of people over there so they will do everything to ensure that.
If people don't have money and heavily dependant it will be easy to control them and this is what is happening.