"Evils of Africa Derive from Wrong Choices. It is Time to Change", says President of Caritas Africa

Agenzia Fides ^ | 8/10/19

[marshmallow]

Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa’s problems are by choice. This is by choosing leaders who are not good", said His Exc. Mgr. Gilbert Justice Yaw Anokye, Archbishop of Kumasi (Ghana) and President of Caritas Africa, during the 18th Plenary Assembly of SECAM (Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar), held in Kampala (see Fides, 30/7/2019).

"We have voted corrupt leaders into power by tribal lines; by fear or favour. We have chosen leaders who have not helped Africa up to date since independence. We have had good leaders who have been booted out of power by coup d’etat, supported by some people or countries that have their own interests", recalled Mgr. Anokye.

Mgr. Anokye stressed that "Countries like Malaysia and Singapore have gone out of poverty because they chose good leaders". "Africa can also rise. We have been sleeping for a long time. We ought to rise up straight away. This will be done by ensuring that we choose good leaders for our democracy, leaders with good policies not for their pockets or their families or ethnic groups: that era has passed and it should not be allowed in Africa anymore".

The Archbishop of Kumasi has indicated in political and environmental instability some of the factors that cause the displacement of millions of Africans from one area to another on the continent. "We have civil wars in countries like South Sudan and Eritrea. We have religious extremism in Somalia; Boko Haram in Nigeria; the Al Qaeda in Mauritania; instability in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast; and migration of people", he said. To these are added natural disasters such such as what happened this year in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, then we have the man-made causes, such as the savage exploitation of the soil and the subsoil.

[aquila48]

"Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary.

We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of development aid has flowed from Western governments to Africa, with rock stars and actors campaigning for more. But this has not helped Africa. It has ruined it.

Dead Aid shows us another way. Using hard evidence to illustrate her case, Moyo shows how, with access to capital and with the right policies, even the poorest nations can turn themselves around. First we must destroy the myth that aid works - and make charity history."

[The Great RJ]

Not only have African countries chosen poor leaders, but have also embraced socialism, communism and sharia law... all are guaranteed failures. The Muslim countries especially have been held back by sharia law which keeps them in a 6th century tribal culture. Imagine how an African nation, rich with natural resources, could prosper under a US style republic form of government and embracing capitalism.

[Cronos]

you are wrong

1. Rwanda since after the genocide has been remade and is booming economically and socially
2. Ethiopia since it junked socialism has been booming
3. Botswana has been quietly growing since the 1950s
4. Senegal too has missed the coups etc. and has been growing socially and economically
5. Kenya and Tanzania are doing well economically - politically they are still troublesome, but there is improvement happening over decades.

[Cronos]

Correct - and the aid and even the selling of second hand clothes have destroyed businesses in african countries

[Old Yeller]

Same could be said for the inner cities of America.