In Africa, the race to amass wealth preoccupies the minds of every politician, to an extent that the citizen's interest comes last. Should the interests of the citizens be on the menu, then others would order it as a pudding, or dessert, while theirs which is the main meal fills the plate.
Sad enough that the moment, these politicians clinch power, they turn off the cameras of accountability and transparency or otherwise, they hire their men to operate in the control of these cameras.
These are credits that makes them be opulence and be august, far-fetched is their bravado that even after assuming to the electoral seat they extend it by having their cryptic language, such that the common mwananchi won't decipher.
As the new dawn which has been generationally engineered across Africa, a new trend is emerging, the wolves are shedding their sheepskin to reveal who they are. Gigantically, telling their people that they are tough and that their behaviour is mettled and no one can outwit them.
Recently, the Parliament of Djibouti, removed the presidential term limit, permitting the incumbent President to contest for another election. In Kenya, such an idea was killed upon its inception, though it is difficult to nullify its reappearance, in some of the West Africa Countries, the junta takes charge of government just because the civilian was overthrown but till today, the government is yet to be taken back to the civilian. Not to mention Uganda and Cameroon who for the two or more decades have had only one president.
The problem is not with dictatorship, nor the longevity of rulership but the impact of good governance to the people.
Africa, have gotten independence, and everything she was advocating for, she can now do it by herself but the buffer emanates when the people who were left to take charge have no goodwill to develop but rather to build their own empires and by extension a banal paradise.
Inasmuch, every particular African country celebrates independence in their respective time of the year, majority of them still reel in poverty, poor governance, poor democratic structures, and political instability alongside other myriads of challenges, guess who cares? A simple answer is that only a poor man cares, the undermined voices, a caucus in the society whom their roars are perceived less like that of a cicada.
Clinging to power is not borne of contention, the wonderful question that is worth answering is; are citizens benefitting from the government of the day? Why the bloodshed after what was shed during the fight for the colonial independence? Why are protests across your country, from the education sector to the healthcare department? Why still bearing a mark of third world countries yet there are those that began the race the same day but are now far much better?
Perhaps, these questions are black-typed and worth no response while the best response might be found would aliens come inside mysteriously to intercede.
The worst is that, the power holders might even attempt to persuade the aliens and the ordinary citizens won't get the answer until they rise on their own to fight for their space.
(JUST FOR THE LOVE OF AFRICA)
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