...As iconoclastic as this view might seem, the truth is Mr. Halifah Sallah's role models are failures through and through when the immediate post-colonial leadership of Africa is objectively examined. Kwame Nkrumah failed to harness Ghana's mineral and intellectual wealth during his tenure and was eventually dismissed in 1966. The fault was entirely his. No sentimentality will replace the fact that he erred in judging the changing times and the urgent need to reform a colonial strucutre that didnt serve its previous African subjects. Gamal Abdel Nasser took Egypt down the road to war with Israel and caused great pain and havoc to his proud nation. His only visible legacy is the Aswan dam. What about Kenneth Kaunda, Siaka Stevens, all paragons of Pan Africanism? Where have they led us? We need new, better role models for African progress and I'm not talking about Thabo Mbeki or Nelson Mandela either....
Clean your house before pointing a finger ... Never be moved by delirious Well-wishers in their ecstasy
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