Our continent has vast untapped land, intelligence, and tremendous talent that still remains un- or underutilized. These are all difficult questions that could take years to be answered. WHY Corruption One key impediment, with which all Africans are familiar, is corruption. Corruption runs, in most cases, from the top to bottom in positions of public trust. Civil servants tend to be more concerned about their own welfare than the benefit of their country.
Citizens can often get around strong beneficial policies by bribing a few people.
Before making any great moral indictment of civil servants, it is important to note that some of these people are underpaid and do not receive timely compensation for their work. It can always be argued that if these people were paid on time and well, there would be less corruption. Perhaps some of the most honest civil servants are forced to accept a few bribes here and there to send their children to school or merely to survive. We all would agree that accepting bribes is not right, but neither is being paid late for work performed or depriving your children of an education. There are several reasons why people would tend to be corrupt.