Topic: Africa needs to fix continent, richest people are politicians (Read 592 times)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

" 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.

I was reading an article where it was mentioned that the politicians and rich people don't even educate their children in their country, which also shows the education infrastructure has a hole to fill along with other problems. And like you said despite being a resource-rich country, it's a shame that they cannot even use the resources to good use.

If the politicians are investing in industries it should actually somewhat help the country because it would mean more jobs and a better economy. I think they are investing the money abroad and that is where the problem lies. Maybe their tendency of thinking about themselves is what has killed their economy so badly. There are countries with the worst politicians but they still don't hurt the economy because they spend it within their own country.

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.

This categorically speaks to Nigeria. It's not because Dangote is mentioned there but because the scenario described aptly captures the whole thing. The looting political class are the real money bags in Nigeria. These people don't have business acumen and can't do any logical investment apart from indulging their flamboyant lifestyles. They suddenly become rich overnight once they get into political offices and this easily explains why Nigeria and the rest of Africa are where they're - in poverty and underdevelopment. A governor in one of the eastern states in Nigeria, during a public gathering laughed to himself when the speaker of that occasion mentioned Aliko Dangote as the richest man in Africa. It was a sinister act. The undertone of his laughter meant that the speaker was wrong by that fact and that him, the governor, was richer than Dangote even though he had no seen businesses he ran. The need to fight corruption was one major key points why people voted for the Buhari led administration which has now turned worse than its predecessors. This is highly regretable to say the least.

This is very difficult to do because the ones that have to push for this are the the politicians themselves and the ones that have to make sure corruption is at least reduced somehow is the justice system that is probably just as corrupt.

There is simply no political will to do this because as it is stated at the OP politicians are the richest people in most countries in the African continent which means they have no incentive to do so as they are the direct beneficiaries of all of this, and as long as that is the case then the rest of the population has no incentive to work hard and improve their lives as everything can be stolen away from them with such high levels of corruption.

When we do talk about reality then there are soo much things that you can mentioned off when it comes on type of government and possible things that theyre attached into these kind of doings.
For those votes that had been bought off in the form of bribe then its up to citizens mistake where they do exchange out into their countries future for some amounts of money
unless if its still being getting involved for some manipulation of numbers.It does depend on the government which do control on a particular country.
Honestly, this doesnt only limit out on Africa but also into other countries as well.

Yes, they really need to do something about their countries, or else their leaders are going to ruin them. Most of their leaders don't have their children living in Africa, all their children are living in developed countries such as Europe, and the United States,, so they act anyhow and don't care about Africa and the countries there. They are all greedy and once they go into power they want to pack the money that will feed their whole generation, and that's their only focus and not about making their countries a better place.

If the people don't wake up and put an end to this, then it's really going to be a big problem later in the future, because their evil leaders are using them. I know it's not going to be easy for people to take action, but they really need to. Although one thing I am worried about is that for such a change to occur, a lot of people are going to be paying the price.

I disagree with the last part. A large number of countries in the African continent are under military rule. I am talking about Sudan, Mali, Chad.etc. Some, like Libya and the CAR are undergoing civil war and doesn't have working governments. And even in countries where there is democracy, there are large scale incidence of voter intimidation and election irregularities. So you can't really blame all of the voters. But I agree that there is a tendency to vote based on ethnic and religious lines in Africa.

Politician stole money and invest it in industries the reason why it is difficult to get that of Africa is because of the hunger and poor standard of living. Most African countries operate a democratic system of government. When the time come to make changes through voting. Voters are being bribed and they sell their right for penny

I agree and that is exactly what it is. They want this segregation of the Rich and the Poor. The Have and the Have not hence they will continue to do every thing possible to make sure that the people do not have their way to financial freedom, keep them poor so that they will keep depending on the Government.

Sad that a resource-rich country like Africa is having problems and is currently listed as a third-world country because of poor decisions made by the ones that should govern them. Strong anti-corruption ordinances and laws must be passed and implemented in order to ensure the future of this country, otherwise it will just turn into another Venezuela.

Strong anti-corruption measures should be implemented to tackle the problem of corruption in Africa.Sad to say most African politicians don't care about their people or their country they only care about themselves and loots money.Hunger,lack of basic education, poverty and poor health facilities are always on my the rise due to this.The issue should be seriously tackled because of the damage is causing in African nation's.

This is an important point, it is way easier to destroy something or at least to keep the status quo than to try to change things, even if a politician appeared that wanted the best for the people if the system was still as corrupt as it is now it is likely to think his life will be at risk.

And this is because all the rest of the politicians that are corrupt will see him as a threat to their standards of living and they are never going to allow someone like him to get to power and even if he did they may try to get him out of his position of power.

Due to a high degree of privacy, the penetration of crypto still relatively good in African countries but the receptive ability of people in these countries is so difficult when the politicians have gathered all their power and turned the lower classes into slaves as you say, very few people can break through this siege. Social class discrimination and the power of the political apparatus all made Africa the continent with the most poverty, it is difficult to solve when the politicians here do not allow the absorption of new advantages, they bind people within the old framework.