My Brother,
Your comments are very worthy. rule of law and good governance are the
foundations of effective leadership and the value of human life determines
effective human resources. Wherever life is valued , there is bound to be
advancement and economic success.
Africa should make it mandatory to teach her children leadership. We
understand much of what is involved in leadership: vision, strategy,
cooperation, integrity, trust, intuition, goal setting, motivation,
mobilization, productivity and renewal.These elements are very essential to
reconstruct the African Continent, But African leadership always lack most
of these qualities. Virtually every African leader should contribute to the
substantiative thinking neccessary to move the continent beyond problems and
toward achievement. They should define reality, clarify options, and help
remove the obstacles that make it difficult for the members of their society
to succeed.
The essence of leadership is conciousness-raising and unlocking the energies
and talents of fellow associates. Leaders at their best are not involved in
doing great deeds so much as getting their followers to believe they can do
great deeds and excel. Leaders define, defend and promote values or help
redefine values. African leaders still embrace the dogmas of past leaders "
Mansas" which are inadequate for the stormy present.
Wisdom, The touch stone which betrays the neighbourhood of wrong doing is
what we are lacking.
well we must apply all that we know so that we Africans can attract what we
want. We are out of time, Africa is still behind.
Thanks
Bro
>From: ebrima chongan <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: A CURSED NATION
>Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:33:12 -0700
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>My Brother,
>Many thanks for your brilliant exposee but I want to
>add a few comments. There is no doubt that slavery and
>colonialism is a sad part of African history but I
>think our fundamental problem is that we have to
>embrace a system of rule of law and good governance.
>It is very cheap to say democracy is a western
>concept, the reality is that it is working to a
>certain degree and the developed nations of today had
>also had a very dark history crusades, war, genocide
>etc my argument is that we should learn from it bridge
>the gap and move forward. We have to get a climate of
>stability underpin by good governance and an
>atmosphere of tolerance. In our present day world with
>information technology everything is in the open. so
>long as we africans don't value life and fundamental
>rights the future is bleak. Hitler did construct a lot
>of roads and monuments etc but his policy was
>perverse, evil and deeply flawed. For us in Africa a
>leader can kill, main, imprison etc and get away with
>it so long as there are persive to be doing some
>development projects. Yes he is working and developing
>the country?? We have to respect life and proper
>checks and balances with nobody above the law.
>We don't have to be of the same persuation idealogy
>wise but we have to and must share certain values of
>fair play, rule of law and a level playing field with
>the interest of nations at heart.
>There is no curse we can revert the situation so long
>as we share common civilised values.
>This is my thoughts and wish you all the best.
>Alpha Ebrima ismaila Chongan
>
>
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