Challenges Of African Leadership After The Independency

Abstract

The African continent is still facing serious challenges of development
regardless of leadership changes. Dependency in Africa introduced corruption, fraud,
underdeveloped infrastructure, poor leadership, and unsustainable development. Under
development in Africa is mostly caused by the type of leaders that are elected to take
leadership positions in Africa. Africa has many challenges but the centre of all challenges
after independence is corruption. All leaders that are elected in African countries after the
independence are reached and their families and friends are also rich. The economic status
of former leaders in the African continent after African independence says a lot about why
Africa is still underdeveloped. The money that is spent on corruption could have a positive
impact on African development. Africa is not united and cannot be united unless
corruption is properly addressed. Leaders in Africa do not want to see a united Africa
because they will lose a lot of money that they receive through corrupt activities. This
paper is presenting the challenges of Africa after independence and discuss corruption as
the mother of all challenges in Africa. African leaders are responsible for the current
poverty and underdevelopment of Africa. African leaders, previous and current leaders
have not been able to find a model that will work for Africa. Their focus has been on
continuing importing western-based models which do not work for most African
countries. The objective of this article is to show the challenges that stop Africa to have a
powerful economy even though some of the minerals are exported by Africa to other
continents. The secondary research methodology was applied to this article. The findings
of this paper prove that the African continent will not change unless the issue of corruption
is properly addressed to end it.