By Richard Maduku
There is hardly any good thing that we Africans don’t corrupt.
Sometimes, we practise only the negative aspect of almost every good thing.
Clocks or watches for instance, are meant to ensure punctuality but in Africa they are used mostly for the opposite. It is
called African Time. The Internet is meant for fast communication but in Nigeria many
youths have turned it into a farm where they reap what they did not sow. It is
called yahoo yahoo. Churches have
been so corrupted in Africa especially in Nigeria that our traditional
shamans blush with envy at the tricks church leaders of today play in order to
exhort money from their gullible members.
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| *President Muhammadu Buhari |
Democracy in most African countries has also
been badly mangled due to the way most sitting Presidents or Heads of
Government in Africa operate. They don’t only
harass prominent members of the opposition in their respective countries they
also brazenly rig supposedly democratic elections in order to remain in office.
This has in turn made winning a re-election by a sitting President to be viewed
with utmost suspicion. As a result, whether an election was free and fair, a
sitting President conceding defeat was now more acceptable to the world
especially to the West.
