The African continent is regarded as the poorest in the world yet no one can claim that the continent is not richly endowed in human and natural resources. The white man looted Africa to develop his own land and after he left the new African leaders continued the looting. Instead of developing his land with his loot, he took it to the white man's land and deposited in their banks. Hence, Switzerland and other parts of Europe with less natural resources than Africa have a higher GDP and per capita income than all the African countries put together. African loot is used by Europe and America to provide social amenities and to build infrastructures that Africans only read about or see on television.
African leaders see themselves as maximum rulers.
They ride on the shoulders of the people to power and forget them as soon as they are sworn into office. Today, Africa has the unenviable position of the most corrupt continent in the world. Mobutu Sese Seko, Idi Amin, Sani Abacha, Kerekou, Ibrahim Babangida, Charles Taylor, Samuel Doe, Abdusalami Abubakar, Umaru Dikko, and many more living and dead, are reputed to have billions of dollars stashed away in foreign lands yet, with the exception of Umaru Dikko, all these men were public servants from very early age until the time they died or were forced out of government. Some of the individuals listed above are dead, yet their deeds are being suffered by the living while their offspring live in unimaginable splendor. I know Nigerians whose homes would be the envy of some of the richest people in Europe and America.