"Africa Has A Poverty Of Leadership And Scarcity Of Vision," - Chamisa's Africa Day Message

Nelson Chamisa, the leader of the opposition MDC Alliance has said Africa’s major problem is its leadership that has no strategy of pulling the continent out of its misery even decades after independence.

In his Africa Day message, a day meant to commemorate the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity on 25 May 1963, the precursor to the African Union (AU), Chamisa said:

To sculpture solutions to Africa’s challenges, it is vital to locate what the problem of Africa is. The problem with Africa is principally a problem/crisis of governance and leadership. The crisis articulates itself in the failure of Africa’s leaders to rise up to the rectitude of accountability and yardstick of probity. The inability to think beyond subsistence and clientalism.

Africa is burdened by disease and poverty. The poverty in Africa is the poverty of leadership. The scarcity on our continent is the scarcity of vision and love.

Africa is endowed with primary natural resources including gold, platinum, diamonds, oil, land and timber but most of the countries on the continent remain in abject poverty.

Africa is urged to embark on beneficiation and value addition of minerals before export to create value, employment and accelerated industrial development from its largely unexploited mineral resources.

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