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Nepotism is stealing Africa’s future – expert─── DANE BEISHEIM 12:03 Tue, 10 Oct 2023
“Africa needs to buck this trend and it needs to do so with haste.”
The liberation movement of the 1960s has not succeeded in addressing nepotism successfully as we see today that the post-colonial project has failed to resolve many socio-economic issues.
According to Prof. Kedibone Phago, director of the North West University's (NWU) School for Government Studies, Africa needs to buck this trend and it needs to do so with haste.
He added nepotism is not limited to isolated cases in Africa, but a trend throughout the continent.
"I think we should have platforms, and we must create our own forums where we consciously create structures that would put a lot of pressure and demonstrate that we are alive to these realities and we see what they are trying to do," Prof. Phago added.
Allowing nepotism practices through family, friends and those least qualified to occupy leadership positions is tantamount to stealing Africa’s future from its young generation, he said.
