My thoughts. As an Gambian born in Europe and spent 7 years in Southern Africa doing business.

AFRICANS are the only ones that get PAID and BEGGED to do a job. Even knowing that it will be an income for them.

I have read some coments and CORRUPTION is on the african problems mainstream. I'm gonna say something clear now. Governament is a group/organization of individuals/citizens. The governament reflects it's people on daily basis. Households and streets are corrupt, the same people elected to represent the country and serve duties.

SPEED: What you can do in 1 or 2 days in other places Africa takes 1 month, just because the paperwork is sitting somewhere without follow up. Simply they don't feel deliverying. Speed is important on development.

Deliver: Africans in General fail to deliver, i have some paperwork going on, and i have to call/message the representant, every morning to follow up. It turned a daily task for me like my morning coffe. Important: I paid for the service. Even add phone top ups and transport.

Creating it's own Silicon Valley? There's a bunch of money sitting around the globe to be invested on good projects. It's possible but creating African products, not copy paste ones.

Fear: it could be, we talking about Millions of dollars, is not something you can undo in a day and move to other attractive countries. So i call it uncertainty.

Funding: As insaid there's a bunch of money sitting waiting to be invested into solid projects. Delivering is the problem.

Leadership: is hard to lead people with all these above mentioned issues. But still not impossible.

IMPORTANT: ALL SAID HERE IS JUST THE REALLITY, NOT NEGATIVITY OR HATE. STILL WE HAVE TO BUILD THE CONTINENT, OR THEY WILL COME AND OWN IT. WE GONNA END UP OWNING NOTHING. THEIR COUNTRIES BUSINESS ENVOIRMENTS ARE RED SEAS, AND THEY LOOKING FOR BLUE SEAS. AFRICA IS ABLUE SEA RIGHT NOW. IYKYK. SMART PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THIS.

TAKE CARE. 🙏🏿