Some writers and analysts often go to the extent of listing our problems by bullet points. However, the problems and challenges facing Africa today go far beyond bullet points. In fact, they are quite interconnected.
There is poverty in Africa today and there is hunger. There is rampant corruption all across the continent. Terrorism is taking over parts of the continent and there is insecurity
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The nuclear bomb America dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, instantly killed over 65,000 people and injured about 70,000 others. Also, the bomb flattened buildings and destroyed about 70% of Hiroshima's infrastructure. Hiroshima was a thriving Japanese city with a population of about 255,000 people.
Another nuclear bomb dropped on Negasaki, another Japanese city, 3 days later on August 9
Burkina Faso, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Senegal, Benin, Chad, Niger, South Sudan, Liberia, Mozambique, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Somalia, etc. all have literacy rates below 50%. In other words, less than half the population in these countries can read and write.
Take Somalia for example. Somalia has a literacy rate of 37.8% for the total population with the female literacy
To America and some other countries of the advanced world, war is business and war is money. To an American politician, war isn't just business but a very profitable one. But how is war a "business" and how does war profit man? Who are the CEOs of war and what are their salaries?
In the case of Africa, the answer is quite simple. The more we fight and kill ourselves, the more profit (money) the
Africa is gradually abandoning capital punishment (also known as the death penalty) for good. Why? Because, Africa understands we are in a new age and time. Capital punishment on the other hand, is archaic, inhumane, error-prone, and simply a barbaric form of punishment.
The Republic of Benin officially abolished the death penalty in 2016. The republics of Madagascar and Congo abolished the
An armed robber was arrested for raping and killing a pregnant woman and her 2 children in Nigeria. Sadly, this evil person walks free while an innocent man wallows in a cramped, dirty and disease-ridden jail in Nigeria all because of corruption.
In Zimbabwe, a 9-year-old girl was raped on her way to school by a man who infected her with HIV. The police initially arrested her attacker but then
