Africans are no longer at peace and their leaders are restless

May 25, marked the 50th anniversary of African unity. Unlike May 1963 when the OAU was established, African leaders who assembled in Addis Ababa for the recent AU summit, such as YahyaJammeh of Gambia, Teodoro Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, are predominantly despots, tribalists and oppressors of the wananchi.

Two of them, Gen. Omar Bashir of the Sudan and Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya have been indicted by the ICC for crimes against humanity. The AU summit even had the audacity to accuse the ICC of racism and targeting African leaders for trial when the Prosecutor of the Court, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, is a distinguished lawyer from the Gambia! It is a very dishonest act by desperate and shameless men.

Lack of democracy and peace, corruption and weak states  interfere with the building of the economy

As far as Uganda is concerned, you cannot build a robust and sustainably developing economy if you do not deal with the following eight bottlenecks:

A human resource that is not developed through education and with improved health.  In many African countries, this is being addressed.  In Uganda, for instance, UPE (Universal Primary Education), USE (Universal Secondary Education) and broader higher education have expanded literacy to 70 per cent and above; and the skilling of the population is on the move.