"Leaders make a country". This was the answer given by an Indian thinker on the problems of Africa and I wholly believe he is on point. Indeed, African continent is in acute need of visionary leadership to drive her dream for total emancipation and make her economically and politically sovereign. From the North,the East, the South and all to the West of Africa, the teeming 300 million population of motherland prays and waits for the miracle of leadership to happen, which will turn the fate of the black world around for good.
Take China for example; fifteen years ago many would doubt the feat this giant nation has achieved for herself today in terms of power and prestige. Strong and buoyant in economy, focused and principled in vision, dedicated and committed in drive for excellence, and principled in the pursuant of its vision; this nation started her climb to stardom with one leader in Mao Tse Dong, whose example of visionary leadership inspired fifty other leaders in succession that kept alive his dream of greatness for China. It was these crop of honorable men that sustained the vision the whole world celebrates today; it was they who mid-wived today's ultra modern China with power and prestige among the comity of nations and with a phenomenal growth rate, even in global economic recession. Malaysia, Indonesia, India…all had leaders at the center that coordinated their drive for advancement and made them achieve a giant leap from an under developed nation to a confident one within a minimal time.
The question is: can't we replicate these examples of resounding success in our homeland Africa, today replete with men and women of great resources and industry either unfertilized or under utilized. Can't we produce leaders that will inspire leadership in others and continue a legacy of greatness that will turn our continent into a respectable player in world politics and not beggars and misfits we presently represent. Is there hope for change in the makeup of today's African leaders, who prize the welfare of their pockets more than the welfare of their people and have no inkling of vision except to perpetuate themselves in office and live forever? The answers to these salient questions pose far reaching significance to Africa's drive for full emancipation.
On my part, knowing to lead others well, one must first lead himself right; I have taken a stand for change and I will urge all my readers with a vision for change in our continent, especially the young African pioneers to bestir themselves and start cultivating the regime of their mental and spiritual magnitudes for our commonwealth's advancement. Let's learn positivity everyday to better ourselves and try, with a committed will, to eschew such vices like corruption, dishonesty, wastage, brigandage, injustice and insincerity that forms the hallmark of today's African leaders and which continues to hold us down as a people from advancing and flowering. CHANGE MUST HAPPEN IN AFRICA and it begins with you and me. To those like me who believes in leaders with vision, agents of change, committed to enacting change for the overall good of Africa, I say our day is coming. If you believe like I do , please say a loud AMEN!
Aluta continua,
Wale Owoeye
PS: I will like to celebrate Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on the launching of the suspension bridge in Lagos that put Nigeria on the world map and on other welfarist and modern initiatives of his government . More power and vision to your drive to make Lagos a place of dreams.
Well said the law. With people like you around who still have faith in our sweet Africa I believe we can still make a 360 turn for the better. Yes! Faith is a powerful tool. But we must work too.
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