I certainly agree with you that poverty; lack of opportunity should also be a part of representative criteria; for representative section of youthman ( and woman ) African leaders:
On Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:18:32 UTC+2, william bangura wrote:
I am not privy to the selection process to the Young Africans Leaders Initiative (YALI) but most of them were well-fed and are not a reflection of the socio-economic and political groups of sub-Saharan Africa.
I would have preferred that YALI included kids between the ages of 15 and 17 and recent university graduates. Referencing my paternal country Sierra Leone majority of those between the ages of 25 to 35 had already been corrupted socio-economically and politically.
I am uncertain about the amount of YALI's per country, but I would have preferred that there is a representative each for the social, economical and political components.
The political component should have been represented from one of the schools in Freetown, Sierra Leone who is from a family of five, whose father is a custodian who either works at the Connaught Hospital, is a trash collector for the Ministry of Health or a laborer for the Public Works Department and whose mother is a housewife, and they are both uneducated. Because of his dad's salary they live in a two bedroom tin-shack, with no electricity and they procure water from the street tap, and they can only eat dinner once a day and not throughout each month.
But this YALI is very obedient, diligent and respectful at home and at school, is always in the top five in each class and is also very politically conscious.
He continuously visits the rural areas to be in contact with his matrilineal and patrilineal relatives who are from different provinces and also toils in the agricultural sector to procure some revenues to pay for his school fees, buy books, uniforms, and shoes, and buy lunch.
The US Embassy in Freetown should have considered class—economic status—school grades, and they should have penned a composition where they opine about the political problems and solutions before making their selections.
Inviting entrepreneurs between the ages of 25 and 35 is a novel idea, but without the "socio-political" there will never be a viable economical state.
To quote the latte President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, " Seek ye first a political kingdom and all else shall be added unto you."
As is prevalent with President Obama he has done more for Arabs and Europeans than the sub-Africans whose blood he has "running through his veins."
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