STATE CAPTURE OR STATE ECONOMIC SURRENDER

During colonial era, the colonialists partitioned Africa in particular, for the economic advancement of their countries from the wealth they dug from African colonised states.

This is the painful truth, which, when given an option we would all want to forget.
Good hearted, trusting, blind loyalty and submissiveness of African people caused them to mortgage their mandate to govern to the initial leaders on a blank cheque, and blindly surrendered their right to govern the country through their representatives.

In short, we Africans dropped the ball as a populace to the leaders who were democratic at the time their countries got independence because all people then had one common agenda, which was to eradicate colonialism and instill democracy through self-determination and popular participation. Initially, those leaders did well as they were serving a people’s agenda.

This is true, as almost all countries became members of the United Nations (UN) as soon as they received their independence and did not only ratify, but also domesticated the United Nations Human Rights Charter (UNHRC), which embraced human rights and civil liberties into their independence constitutions. As if that was not enough, they all became the members of the Organisation of African Union (OAU).

The then OAU and the current African Union (AU), from which we ratified and domesticated the African Charter for Human and People’s Rights which strongly embraces the principles of democracy, popular participation and pluralism with the entire litany of the Bill of Rights and civil liberties.

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