Leadership in Africa.

This week has been so exciting, fulfilling and awesome. I have been talking a lot about leadership and association with my best-friend (My Fiancee). We have a routine where we share what we learnt in Church with each other  Since I didn't attend Church service last Sunday, he told me what the pastor preached. The teaching was the continuation of a previous series, which talked about leadership and association.  Today, I watched a video on www.ted.com, a lecture by Patrick Awuah, he talked about educating leaders and his experience before he left Ghana, and his awakening moment that made him come back home to Ghana  to train leaders and teach the youth of Ghana to critically think.
Changes starts from within. Our leaders in Africa are so engulfed in their own comfort zones. They go about squandering the resources of the nation, thereby forgetting about the people who placed them in power. Patrick is right that the leaders are the elite group. The problem with Africa is that they don't believe in bringing out the potentials in people. They would rather let one become a nuisance and then they blame it on other factors. Africa needs to rise up and move ahead. That is where we belong, ahead. We need to keep training our leaders right from Kindergarten. As a kid who grew up in Nigeria, we used  to sing a song which goes " Parents listen to your children, we are the leaders of tomorrow" , I never felt like a leader until I left Nigeria, and  moved to the United States, and I became exposed to new things. I became even more courageous,   and I made up my mind to go back home to educate my people. Africa will one day catch up with the rest of the world. Rome wasn't built in a day. We need more people abroad to rise up, come home and make a change.  Yes there would be oppositions. Rome wasn't built in a day. There were also oppositions when Rome was built.