Thread by @denvern3

1. The problem isn't religion, the problem is we plan and don't act, elect criminals and then cry when they impoverish us. We have no willpower to save ourselves nor do we respect ourselves to go beyond what our ancestors did. We are rabidly nostalgic living in the past.

https://twitter.com/J_Murove/status/1395318085071032322

2. We need to be serious about solving the problems we face. Everything we have received from other cultures we have made it an end unto itself. In religion we stop working hard and being aggressive in getting more because we want it to rain from heaven.

3. We got democracy but we have made elections the goal and not part of the process. Ours is an inability to improve and go beyond what our ancestors left us. They left us many things but we still want to just do what they did in their time.

4. We lack collective ideology that is aspirational. The African dream is about living in lofty mansions as individuals and seldom about making sure everyone is well taken care off. Our leaders all want to go back to the 60s and 70s and never think about shining in the 21st cent

5. Our organizations are just overhyped talk shops that cannot even organize to build anything on the continent. We wait for donations whilst stealing our own future. Africa cannot be stripped of her resources without the complicity of its leaders. They live to enrich themselves.

6. There is no guiding philosophy for Africa. Pan-Africanism has not evolved in line with global changes and demands, we still rabidly hang onto Leninism which the Russians who originated it have abandoned. Even China abandoned Maoism and yet we can't even learn!

7. Everything we have learnt had become an end unto itself. We are incapable of crafting a better future for the next generation because we love for today. We strip assets from our own country and complain about leaders who rob several generations in one lifetime.

8. We defend despots, we don't speak truth to each other as African countries. Please, religion is not the problem, it is because we are deliberately dumb and stick to the same script and hope to replicate some foreign nation without any guiding foundational concepts!