FORUM: This is why Africa is still a poor continent
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki speaks during the African Leadership Forum 2014 in Dar es Salaam yesterday. With him are other ex-presidents: Tanzania’s Benjamin Mkapa (second right), Botswana’s Festus Mogae (left) and Nigeria’s Olusegun Obasanjo. PHOTO | SALIM SHAO
What you need to know:
The continent, which is endowed with natural resources like petroleum, diamonds, iron, cobalt, gold, petroleum and agriculture land among others, remains poor largely because leaders are not willing to do things differently
