1. NO INNOVATION. ONE of the strongest reasons America has continued to be an envy, admiration of the whole earth is because of her citizens who are being driven by extra-ordinary passion. In this age and dispensation, the economy alone does not guarantee a nation the tag ''superpower''; rather strongest commerce plus military, global cultural influence, technology, sophisticated science, and lastly INNOVATION. I have never think of any great African in history as been really innovative; they might be freedom fighters, liberators but never pace setters. Talk about inventions there is scarcely any genius of an instrument that this continent has ever contributed to the world, and please do not mention Egypt here, because ancient Egypt was more of a middle East Empire, not African. Look at every aspect of our existence starting from our entertainers, scientists, technocrats, politicians, historians, engineers, politicians, etc you will find no trace of INNOVATION. IT IS THROUGH INNOVATION THAT AMERICA AND THE WEST ARE AHEAD OF THE REST OF THE WORLD IN LIGHT YEARS.
2. CORRUPTION; Corruption doesn't start and end with public officers, it is inbred from the depth of our ''common'' societies. Take a look at how you beat checkpoint, the refusal to pay tax, how you defraud your fellow countrymen and all that. Aside from innovation, corruption is the biggest stumbling block to Africa progress; it has really eaten deep into the fabric of each of us. Corruption is part and parcel of the people of Africa and thus there is no sign that it will ever let go, hence I see no way this continent bed-ridden in the slum will ever develop.
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IGNORANCE & RELIGION: AFRICANS ARE AND WILL ALWAYS BE A SLAVE TO THE WHITES. Yes, and this statement is worth repeating over a billion times. One ironical aspect of deep religiousness'' of Nigerians, for instance, is that they are one of the most immoral people on this planet. Africans do not highly regard their religious laws as they do the creeds and ''dogmas''. This accounts for why we do not critically, realistically tackle our numberless problems. Rather than taking a practical, empirical approach to curbing horrendous situations many of us rely on the efficacy of prayer to an abstract, deaf god far up in the sky who will just at the snap of a finger make things right. This is the greatest delusion in universal history. The Western World who brought Christianity and others to ''the monkeys'' do not behave so fanatical and possessive the way we the adopters do. If Africans continue this way, I am sorry no hope for the world's darkest continent.
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