ONLY IN AFRICA :
ACADEMIC TITLES VS. GOOD LEADERSHIP.
Recently, Kenyan members
of parliament passed a bill that will see any candidate vying for the top
office in the coming general election (senator, governor, mp, president) hold
a mandatory degree. Parliamentary candidates will be required by law to hold a
degree for them to vie.
But
do academic titles really guarantee good leadership? Comrade Dr. Robert Mugabe,
who has misruled Zimbabwe
for 30 odd years, has a bunch of real degrees. Infact, he is the most learned
and decorated (in terms of academic degrees) president in Africa
with 7 degrees to his name.
That
to say the least hasn’t stopped him from messing about with Zimbabwe so bad that his citizens
have been reduced to boiling leaves for food.
The
late Dr Bingu Wa Mutharika, an economist so accomplished that World Bank hired
him, did not let his PhD in Economics stop him from destroying Malawi ’s
economy to the point of penury.
Yet
Africa’s most effective president, ironically, Paul Kagame of Rwanda , holds a mere diploma- by
distance education! But see where Rwanda is today in terms of
leadership, economic development, need I say more?
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