Africa Is In A Mess: What Went Wrong And What Should Be Done

By: Godfrey Mwakikagile

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The author looks at why Africa is in such a mess – political, economic, social – decades after independence and proposes solutions to the continent's seemingly intractable problems. He attributes Africa's plight to both internal and external forces but contends the main problem lies within not without. Bad leadership is the biggest problem Africa has faced since independence and everything else revolves around it, he contends. He explains why most countries on the continent have had bad leaders since the end of colonial and white minority rule and what internal forces, such as ethnic and regional loyalties and rivalries compounded by corruption and tyranny, they exploit to perpetuate themselves in power.