BLACK LEADERSHIP

Leadership is natural amongst every group of people irrespective of geographical location, race, ethnicity, sex, population, and wealth. The principles thereof have been proven to be the same while the application varies.

In every sense of the word, leadership is a privilege given to the leader by the people, thus, the people reserve the right to install and uninstall a leader (as they so please). To lead is to serve and to serve is to be accountable, where transparency and honest are a high requirement for this position. As much as service is a privilege, it is also a very demanding work. Most part of the leaders' life is given in quality service to the people they serve, which includes, wisdom, character, time, strength and more.

The subject Leadership, is staggeringly significant that it cannot erode as long as humans exist. It is passed from one generation to the next as a baton in the sport of Relay Race. Hence, there is every need to handle it with utmost care and earnestness. Herein comes the Mentor and the 'Mentee'.

Leadership determines up to 80 if not 100 percent of the direction and success of a group of people. This is without regards to how gifted, how talented, how skilled, how learned, how rich, how poor, how few or how many the people may be. In order to achieve a collective goal and progress as a people, the need for a person or selected group of people with the appropriate skill set is required for guidance towards bringing to fruition the plan of the people, for the people and by the people.

Now, looking through every black community from the onset, with a major focus on Africa, it is as though the principles of Leadership is turned upside down, inside out, and backside front. The exact diametric is what is obtainable. With almost every leadership positions sated with ill-equipped and selfish people. In some cases, these are elected leaders while in others, they are leaders who impose themselves on the people.
They go on to enrich themselves and impoverishing the people, caring less about the people whom they are supposed to represent. Have no regards as to the coming generation, seek not to correct the mistakes of the past.

It will not be out of place to say that everything is wrong with the leadership system as it concerns Africa. As the leaders are void of vision and the people follow with open eyed-blindness. This situation was  perfectly coined by the late popular musician Fela, "SUFFERING AND SMILING". It is quite unfortunate that the followers in some of the cases, pick and celebrate the leaders just the way they are.
The woes of the black race is neither what was done to us, what is being done to us, nor what will be done to us. The flip side to that is the question to correct the past and predict the future of the black race.
What did we do to us, what are we doing to us, and what will we do to us?

The bafflement of the intelligent mind will be, with so much wealth piled up almost everywhere in  Africa, without depletion over time and yet enough to transform the African State, what have the leaders done for its people before and after colonialism? What was the plan? What is the plan? What will be the plan - for the PEOPLE?! How far have we moved from where the colonialists left us?

The sooner we step up to correct the wrongs we have done to ourselves, the sooner we begin to think ahead for a better Africa,the sooner our progress will explode.

Together we can change Africa!