Pat Utomi of the Lagos Business School examines the disproportionate focus on politics within Africa and the relatively tepid interest in entrepreneurship and wealth creation."...In much of post colonial Africa philosophies as espoused by leaders like Kwame Nkrumah, who led Ghana into independence ahead of others like Nigeria in 1957, made the arena of the political kingdom more attractive. Nkrumah’s famous slogan: “Seek First the political kingdom and all else will be added unto it” made the political arena the natural direction of travel for the talented Contestation in that narrow arena of few positions both elevated the state to so dominant a role in society with outcomes of policy of government in commerce that many are today struggling to roll back, and ultimately reduced the arena to one of the brute force, attracting military intervention. Coups and counter-coups in Africa to gain control of that state, so everything can be added unto the victorious individual, bred corruption that increased the uncertainties which confront the innovator...In Africa, unfortunately, “the natives” were consumed by politics and innovation for material well-being was found unattractive in the immediate post colonial era. This is not to say that an enterprise class did not begin to emerge. Tom Forrest in his book The Advance of African Capital has captured the emergence of colonial era entrepreneurs in Nigeria. Many from that emergent class indeed turned to politics for a revalidation of their social status either as active politicians or patrons of emerging politicians..."
Via The Vanguard
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