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Dear JCTR Bulletin Readers: The interplay between politics and economics is such that the two affect each other in ways that might enhance or retard development, as defined as movement of people from less humane conditions to more humane conditions. Nowhere else in the world has this interplay been vividly absent in enhancing development than in Africa. It is thus imperative that the citizens of Africa exercise great care when electing government such that those elected are people to serve them diligently to bring about development. The elected must be morally upright, incorruptible, identifying themselves with the needs and aspirations of the poor to the extent that whatever decisions or policies they put in place must have bearing on uplifting the country as a whole and particularly those living at the margins of existence, the poor people. These ''requirements or attributes'' are very important, not because they are congruent with what the donors expect of us especially in Africa, but because they are fundamental to bringing about development. The current crisis of development in Africa is also a reflection of failed leadership. A leadership that is devoid of these characteristics, whose only preoccupation is self-advancement at the expense of the poor. This egoistic tendency is what has driven and perpetuated some of the wars in Africa occasioning debt, disease and deprivation in (the three ''Ds'' as referred to by some scholars) all its various forms. Complete letter |
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