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Those who leader us we may insult them or hate or love them however we need to look within ourselves well then make a conclusion, there is this saying you are what you eat, the consequence we are seeing it is just our action. When it came to Africa we can not say Africa never have a leader, since pre colonization and during the colonization and the post colonization Africa always have leaders some good some bad, in fact in all position of the society, they may religious leader, human right or civil society leader or scientist leader or politician we always have them, but in this opinion I will narrow only to politician.
Before the freedom of the African countries, they was the rise of leaders that push the independence of the African countries and the birth of the movement like the pan African idea and that movement even give birth to AU, if we are honest to ourselves that early move was so successful , let me mention this most of the leaders were not even highly educated, some were but most were not, I can put it this way, they were so successful because of the vision and the goal which was freedom of the people and the country.
After the independence the same leaders became the president of their respective countries and the yesterday freedom fighters they are in government and leading, oh my God they must lead the country in another level, but soon they were in power the reality sink in, and power and money became the drive of their goal no more making better life for all, they install one party one state, and also most of them did proclaim themselves life president, dictatorship was the motto of the day, I will love the say this I am not supporters of democracy in Africa either but we as African supposed to make our own way of choosing our leaders, this one party one state, did bring a lot of pain to many countries but not all, because some countries have multiple coup and plot against the regime in power in some case it was very violent with the killing that was beyond human right, but in some countries also they were success and prosperity for the citizen.
Then we arrived to time of democracy that happened when the cold war was over and the fall of the Berlin wall, African countries was imposed by the western to put democracy as condition for economic help, I may say some countries took it well but the majority of the countries did not took well, we need to put this in mind that change is not easy and it does not happened over night, the problem have with democracy in Africa is we do not vote according to the project or vision of the candidate but we vote according to the ethnicity and tribe line, that is my worry, and also in the most cases the ruling party does not lose the election it is like a divine right for the ruling party, and also most of the freedom fighter party think like the country own them the power, the most horrible things and it is like an horror movie it is that most of election in Africa is not fair and free, it is chaotic and shambolic, the ballot papers in most cases are already mark before even the vote begin, but I must put this most of African countries are now also organizing well run election, let us know that human being things is not perfect even in the rich country they do have problem with election also.
In conclusion beside all of the above the leaders that we put to lead us they are the fruit of our thought and chose, oh yes I know in the most they came there by force or other means but at the end of everything we tolerate them and they became the fruit of our idea, somewhere it is say if you want to see the people look their leader, some of leaders the way the behave it make us wonder how a man or woman like this one can lead us, it is about time the masses must hold the leaders accountability for their action, time of giving them blank cheque is over, now they need to account to their action, in this note I will like to congratulant the Zambian people for their election and choosing a new president let live the new president and blessing in the land of Zambia.
Bless you all
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