Difference Between Africa And The Rich

80% of Japan is mountainous and not viable for farming. Japan doesn't have natural resources and you can't even rear cattle on their land. The land isn't good enough. Not withstanding all this, Japan has the third largest economy in the world. Switzerland does not plant cocoa. They can only plant the soil four months in a whole year. Ghana and Ivory Coast, the biggest cocoa producers in the world have nothing to show for it. Switzerland has the world's best chocolate. How is this even possible? What is Africa doing wrong, or not doing at all?

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So What Is Wrong?

We've lost our morals as Africans. We've lost sight of what's right and wrong. Anything goes this days, as long as you aren't caught. Getting away with bad or wrong things these days makes you smart. The rich follow ethics as a basic principle. If you don't stand for something, you fall for anything. Learn to do what you are obligated to do that will benefit everyone. Almost all Africans have a price, and our price is often very cheap. We've lost our integrity. We are now very corruptible, we don't have a standard. If the prize is right, we can easily change our statement, how sad.

Everything in most parts of Africa is left to the government. Nobody lifts a finger to help, we are all waiting for the almighty government to solve our problems. Instead of helping out little by little to achieve something, we all think it's not our responsibility. Instead of coming together to solve our problems, we leave it to the government and fold our arms. How pathetic. We have no respect for rules and laws. There's been cases were people have gone to police stations to demand that, suspects be released because they don't think the police is doing their job well. We put the laws in our own hands and expect magic to happen. Drivers don't follow and law when driving, especially when there is no police presence on the road.

Africans hate work. Okay, clear that, Africans hate doing hard work in Africa. The same person who will refuse some jobs here in Ghana or Nigeria will go to Europe and be doing something much worse. Whenever you hear stories of Africans being maltreated in other regions, you ask who sent them. We are willing to do tedious work to develop other countries, but won't do same things here. If we happen to eat too, we do hand to mouth. We don't have a savings attitude. We always invest the remainder of our monies after we have used/wasted them. Whenever we make small money, that's when we believe we have to enjoy some good life. That's when we think it's time to buy expensive things and chill. Instead of saving for a rainy day, we spend all our money and hope and pray that God will take care of us, how funny.

The average African knows all that needs to be done, but we always see nobody doing things that ought to be done.We are full of talk and no action. When it's time for action, we all pull away. Try to do a communal labor, and the person who suggests how people should be paired will be the first person who wouldn't be present. Talk about donations, and the person who suggests how the money be spent, will probably not come on the day of collection. So many churches but nothing seems to get done. Are we praying to God to do things that he has given us brain to do?

When in Ghana, GMT doesn't mean Greenwich Mean Time. In Ghana,GMT means Ghana Man Time. Why is it so? When you have an appointment with an average Ghanaian, expect him to be late. It's even worse in our churches, where we seem to revere. We are almost always not on time. If you want to meet a Ghanaian at 9 am, tell them to meet you at 8:30 am, because they will be late. Africans in general don't respect time. We don't seem to know what punctuality means. As long as we are not willing to change, then we have a long way to go.