In 2015 #Africa earned about $2.5bn for #coffee export. #Germany’s re-export was about $3.9bn http://theconversation.com/time-for-africa-to-transition-from-extractive-to-learning-economies-59089?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton … via @TC_Africa
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Leaders emerge from the citizens. If we want economic development what matters is empowering citizens who want to make a difference to lead
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Hard to empower citizens who believe in chiefs or where every citizen wants to a chief of the old order rather than lead change
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Yes it is, but I don't think it's fair to say 'every citizen wants to be a chief of old'. Many (a lot) want to lead change.
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Not necessarily. The power asymmetry in d political structure presents a network of unequals. Intellectualism is a bystander
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Yes, one has to join political elite first & there are barriers. But all progressive Govt leaders I worked with were 'citizens' at one point
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It is impossible to have good leaders without good followers, hence the importance of citizenry
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Leadership and followership are inextricably linked. It has been described as a spectrum oscillating on a continuum. Citizenship is d answer
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Citizenship is important but on the flip side, it can pull Govts apart & make them dysfunctional. Govts' also need focus to build capacity
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Good citizenship should contribute and not undermine a system. We need to encourage it in Africa.
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Yes, though it's rather like herding cats. At some point, visionary leaders have to set a course of action that can deliver for citizens.
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#Democracy is a construct of very extensive significations. It assumes representation of mutital relations. Not always the case. -
Sometimes insufficient time for key reforms prevents progressives from helping sectors export value added products, not lack of followers.
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Leadership/governance needed to exploit the human & material potentials of Africans towards growing/developing Africa
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It's more governing than governance: it's not accountability that ultimately matters but ability of visionaries to undertake right reforms.
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Accountability is an integral part of governance
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Accountability matters, but not as much as ability to govern. Ethiopia is delivering value added exports & jobs. Others are not.
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At least accountability moderates the power asymmetry and provides a platform for mutual exchanges
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No doubt about that. But let's be clear that it's not sufficient to deliver learning & value added economy that
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