[Guymullins]

To be brutally honest. The problem is the people, not the leaders. If the people allow their leaders to do whatever they want, the leaders will take complete advantage. This is not only true in Africa, but everywhere. The American constitution is more about preventing abuse of power than anything else. The founding fathers knew that leaders will be just as evil as the people allow them to be.
In Africa, we have two countries that , until relatively recently, were very good places for Africans to live in. Rhodesia and South Africa. The reason why these countries worked so well, for all inhabitants, is that they kept the vote out of the hands of cretins.
Rhodesia had a qualified vote, where anyone with a matric certificate (secondary school) would be eligible to vote. This handled the problem quite elegantly, in that it was not a race-based system at all. However, because of the IQ Bell Curve and the average IQ of the black residents being in the low 70s, and the average white IQ being about the same as it is elsewhere, 100, the vote did end up being largely restricted to whites. The rest of the world could not allow that and sanctions were imposed and the country eventually was forced into a majority rule situation. The switch from a government with an average IQ of 100, to one of an average of about 72 was catastrophic. Who else has actually lost their currency?
In South Africa, the voting restrictions were less fair. For many years, the vote was restricted to whites only, but in later years, it was extended to the Colored community (Mixed Race) and the Indian community in a try-cameral parliament.

Blacks we entirely excluded from voting, which was unfair to the many black people who dwelled on the upper reaches of the bell curve and were entirely capable of making rational choices.

The world demands an all or nothing franchise, so sanctions were again imposed and the country was slowly strangled until power was handed to the black majority.
Again, the completely predictable happened and rule by cretins quickly destroyed everything. Whites were kicked out of government jobs and these jobs were given to sub-normal intellects who thought that management was driving a German sedan and having lunch.
Nelson Mandela was a brief flash of OKness. He served one term as President and failed to curb the rising corruption and non-management now infecting the country.

He handed power to Mbeki, who thought he was much smarter than he was. His claim to fame was corruption in the form of a hugely expensive arms deal that filled the pockets of the top guns in his party while the aircraft, submarines and corvettes they bought were mothballed or sunk because there were no blacks who could qualify to sail or fly them. Mbeki also denied that HIV cause AIDS and prescribed salad to sufferers. He cause the death of over 350 000 of his own people with this stubborn denial.
The latest cretin, President Zuma has somehow avoided his day in court for hundreds of charges of corruption by suborning the national prosecuting authority and stocking the judiciary with his own tribesmen.
Here we are now, 20 years after majority rule. Everything is broken, the post office doesn't work, we get electricity for a few hours a day only, and this will soon stop too.
How nice to be moral.