African leaders have been responsible for massive theft, gross human rights abuses and wanton display of undemocratic tendencies. The better ones have kept their mouths and eyes shut to the crimes committed by fellow leaders in the continent. Others have even chosen to applaud the thieves, murderers and misfits who masquerade as leaders in Africa.

African leaders are famous for huddling together and remaining mute when one of them visits terror on his people. They turn themselves into  sympathy seeking dictators and looters who pretend they are victims of Western conspiracies. Other than leading social redemption and development, they are a class of connivers against their own people.

Like cry babies, they point at colonialism as the sole cause of their woes even though their political records show that they have not done anything to advance the lives of their people.

In his address to the Ghananian Parliament, Obama pointed out that Africans should do more to improve the lot of their people. He particularly talked about good governance.

Africans cannot always shift the blame to anyone else. As Obama reminded our leaders, it is time to own up. Perhaps Africans needed someone like Obama to remind them of their responsibilities.

Obama was so candid that he rightly addressed the situation in Sudan as genocide. We hope African leaders now realise that the world is not prepared to put up with their pitiful antics. What is needed from them is action and commitment to humanitarian and egalitarian ideals. 

                                                         Today's thought

Not all black men are willing to commit race suicide and to abhor their race for the companionship of another. There are hundreds of millions of us black men who are proud of our skins, and to us the African Empire will not be a Utopia, neither will it be dangerous, nor fail to serve our best interests, because we realize that, like the leopard, we cannot change our skins, and so long as black is black, and white is white, the black man shall occupy a position of inferiority depending upon the justice of the great white race to lead and direct him. No race in the world is so just as to give to others a square deal in things economical, political, social and otherwise.

                                                     - Marcus Garvey