In fact, African leaders have always paid the ultimate price by sacrificing their blood for the future of African.
You will turn to consider Africa's problem as resulting from leadership failure only when you fail to differentiate between *Representatives and Servants of African*, and *agents and servants of colonizers* .
In spite of the clarity in this dichotomy, I sometimes do understand those who are unable to differentiate between the two, because, while the latter is is common and can be found all over the continent of Africa all the time, the former can scarcely be found and hadly lasts for any span of time whenever we establish one.
The truth is that whenever Africa put in a leader, he gets killed by our colonizers and get replaced by their agents. Those who are trained and sponsored by our oppressors and are ready help to continue remote colonization. You and I know this very well. Think about, Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, Sylvester Olympio, Samora Machel, Gaddafi, and John Magufuli just to mention but a few.
It is therefore wrong to refer to these agents of our oppressors as ~" *our leaders*" and go on to equate their continuous milking of the African Continent to ~"a leadership failure". If there is anything we have to do, then it should be an act of bringing ourselves together to fight against this remote colonisation and help to bring back real African leaders like Kwame Nkrumah, Kenneth Kaunda, and Julius Nyerere.
To this end, I say that Africa's problem still remains the same; the hand that enslave and colonize us for 400 years and still controlling our affairs after granting us a superficial Independence is the hand we have to cut off from Africa.
Neo-Colonialism must be resist with equal or even a greater organized force which was used by our forefathers to drive away direct colonization. In the end, we must free Africa and secure a better future for the next generations at all cost.
Maponga Joshua III "Farmers of Thought" Shacky Timburwa
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