Africa in search of true and good leadership

Did you know that no African leader in the past three years was considered worthy to church the ‘MO IBRAHIM PRIZE FOR LEADERSHIP’ this year? It shows that leaders of quality are vanishing in the continent.
Not that the Mo Ibrahim Prize committee didn’t short-list anybody, it was said that the prize committee has considered some credible candidates. However, after an in-depth review, the prize committee could not select a winner. Former presidents Thabo Mbeki (South Africa) and John Kufor (Ghana) were among the short-listed candidates for the prize.
Launched in October 2006, the Mo Ibrahim Prize is awarded to elected African presidents and prime ministers who have left office within the last three years to encourage African leaders to leave office with good name and works the same way that Nelson Mandela did in South Africa. He served only one term in 1994. These criteria automatically prelude many African leaders from eligibility.
As the committee acknowledged that governance improved in some other African countries while some country’s governance were nothing to write home about.
The past winners of the leadership prize; Festus Gontenbanyes (former president of Botswana) in 2008, Joaquin Alberto Chissano (president of Mozambique) in 2007 and Nelson Rulihlahla Mandela for his extraordinary leadership qualities and achievements.
A principal counsel and solicitor (name withheld) said “the news does not come as a surprise, albeit a sad reflection of the fact that Africa is facing a critical challenge of leadership and statesmanship in political sphere”. He also expressed regrets over Nigeria and South Africa, two countries in the African continent which, in spite of the different routes to statehood they separately tread, have the potentials to help push Africa to be a par with the rest of the industrialised continents of the world.
A legal practitioner (name withheld) also said “good leadership cannot be exercise in charismatic relationship while not being visionary or meeting people’s needs and gaps in basic to strategic interest and rights”. You cannot have a bad human right record and be exempting in economic growth. This is the third year of the award, but it is empirical evidence that we truly have no leadership in the continent.
Notwithstanding, a lawyer (name withheld) said that “good leadership has been a vanishing commodity for sometimes in Africa and that only a revolution world produce a new set of true leaders”.
It is rather unfortunate that Africans lack a good but unimaginable leadership. The struggle for independence has thrown up some of the finest leaders would have seen. The revolutionized leaders now are still small but are now been polluted with corruption camouflaged as ‘Normal Youth Life’

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