The name Africa still resonates sufficiently to animate interest, even though the subject of attention is not any of its country playing significant role in the world order. As the world’s fastest growing continent, this apparent strength has not translated into plain economic significance, the exponential growth has been more counter productive than favourable. As the world’s second largest and second most populous continent in the world accounting for around 18% of the world’s population, it is not surprising why the likes of China sees the continent as an important economic market, to put it in lay terms – a gold mine.
Despite vastly rich in natural resources, the continent’s leaders have failed to transform any of it into prosperous economies. African leaders behave like the proverbial rats having no clue of what to do with cheese, it’s no surprise therefore that with an economy made up of trade, industry, agriculture, vast talents and a population of around 1.8 billion people, they are unable to utilise these benefits as catalyst for progress, instead they make the region the world’s most poorest inhabited continent. Notwithstanding that several international business observers have also named Africa as the future economic growth engine of the world, this potential can never be realised with the calibre and poor quality of leaders paraded across the continent; corrupt, inept, unfit – their political Houdini can’t escape the history books of damnation.
