On November 26, 2025 there was a military coup in Guinea-Bissau and, accordingly to reports, General Horta N’Tam has now assumed leadership of the country.
No matter your views, here is the central message for African leaders:
The people of Africa are tired of failed leadership and the excuses why they are not seeing tangible development, yet leaders are living in luxury and comfort. The people are tired of people telling them to just “go to the polls”. Tell me, what are you supposed to do when:
1) The Legislature is self-serving and corrupt.
2) The Executive is nepotistic, exploitative, and king oppressor.
3) The Judiciary delivers judgments for “30 pieces of silver” from the Legislature or Executive.
4) The Security Service are just the paid body guards of the Executive and Legislature who do their bidding unjustly.
5) The electoral commission is rotten, comprised, and rigged.
6) The leadership pipeline is “pay to play” and highly tribalic.
7) Every year conditions keep getting worse.
8) No sector in the national economy is stable and functional.
9) You see generations wasting away in multidimensional poverty.
10) Foreign organizations gaining greater control of minerals and natural resources, shipping the wealth back to their countries, and leaving the locals impoverished.
11) The country drowning in increasing national debt that the generation wasting away is supposed to somehow settle.
12) You pray and hope, take action, try to be civil, but no matter what you do the same government stifles and silences you.
What do you expect the African people to do under these conditions? Just sit there and dissolve? So how dare anyone judge the measures they take to regain control of their country out of dire distress? What boundless audacity to criticize the actions of people who are driven in desperation to near insanity?
I am not advocating coups as the solution. What I am saying is that I understand the motive behind it and sympathize with the feelings. If African leaders continue in wretchedness and incompetence, and fail to come their senses then they should now be prepared for the “Traore effect”.
Enough of this madness in Africa. Something has to give! The people are hungry for development, itching for progress, and ready for aggressive nation-building! Their bones are “rattling for action”.
African Leaders, either rise in leadership or fall by upheaval. Multiple choice option A or B!
Building Africa Onward & Upward!💫
~Dr. Ikenna A. Ezealah, Ph.D., MBA
Builder of the African Future
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