God can't save Africa

The interior expressions of religion on the continent are even more insidious and most clearly evident in an intellectual surrender that sees its current crises as the making of a divine being, one who will, as soon as current earthly arrangements are brought to their imminent end, sort things out and compensate the long suffering faithful. Religion, therefore, has effectively become Africa's shadow state, enhancing its dubious social agency, even as the authority and legitimacy of the state rapidly diminishes...To prescribe an increased role for faith as a panacea to all this is to conflate the problem with the solution. It is to forget that if the state in Africa has failed, the solution must lie in rebuilding it; in short, in human, as opposed to divine, agency. State failure in Africa being a human creation, only human ingenuity, not a Creator, can solve it.