The Source of Poverty in the Great Lakes

This month I am discussing with some friends the sources of poverty in Africa and in the Great Lakes because all we are from there.
In these discussions, we excluded our friends from Rwanda because they refused to join our discussion for the reasons they know themselves and we cannot interpret at all.
It seems that the reasons are common for all the African countries. Here are some reasons why us Africans are poor while our countries are reaches.
1. The colonialist came with the purpose of exploiting mineral resources only, not to assist the inhabitant under their power. For this reason you will notice that these western people were doing everything just for the interest of their metropol.
2. Education in Africa which was brought by the western colonialist did not help anymore Africans because this education did not help Africans to develop themselves. The education we received from our colonialists made us just job seekers instead of being job creators.
3. Most of Africans were not ready or prepared for leadership. That why up to today we have a serious crises of leadership in most of our Africans countries. The western colonialist did not prepare Africans to be leaders but just followers.
The colonialist wanted to continue to lead our Africans countries without thinking about the future, that is also being happening with these African leaders who were not prepared to lead even to the university. At last, I will talk about corruption which is destroying the continent.
4. Corruption, most of the first African leaders did not attend formal education and they never have any plan for their countries. Let us think about Joseph Mobutu, K. Kaunda who was not a bad leader at all but somewhere he failed because of the reason I gave here. Our list continue with a leader like Joseph Kabila... These are one of leaders who never even think about what they could do for their countries or what they could do with their countries. Someone from a poor family without any plan, when he's in power; the first think is just to fill his own pockets and for his friend in power. The last of the last point we talk about is:
5. Western power, it seems that is now these power which are imposing their will to the poor African on the man or woman they want to lead this or that country and when they are doing so they are not helping Africans because they come with people without ambitions and also with foreigners to reign in a other foreign country as it is in the DRC with Joseph Kabila.

Africans must be masters of their future and write the history of their own countries.
Most of african leaders are corrupted by western powers and when they are in oppositions they can come up with good speeches but once in power, they forget their promises to the poor people because they sold themselves to the western Powers.
Some days ago I write these lines, I was receiving in my office with an elected woman to a women association, with this lady my task was just to remind her about what she promised to the other women once in power because according to my observation this woman was out of the objectives of the movement she was leading. You know what the lady gave me as an answer to my preoccupations? For now we are tacking what we think are hot issues for our community. I tried to make an investigation on those hot issues and I found that the lady was taken in an umbush by a group of ladies who are power than her.
African countries are poor today because of these kind of leaders who sold themselves to these western powers who are just behind the resources of African countries.
Africa is a reach continent, our people must be also reach but because we are egoist, us the population are poor. We have to think about and reform all the system in all our countries for the future of our children.

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