Anyone running for Nigeria’s president who does not have plans to address these African statistics is just wasting everyone’s time 

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Africa as a continent only accounts for 1% of global manufacturing 
[2] Africa as a continent only accounts for 4% of world trade 
[3] Africa as a continent accounts for 18% of the world’s population 
[4] Africa as a continent accounts for 70% of the world’s strategic minerals 
[5] Africa produces 89% of the world’s gold 
[6] Africa produces 47% of the world’s diamonds
[7] Africa has approximately 31km of paved road per 100km sq of land in comparison with 134 square km of paved road in other low-income countries
[8] Other than South Africa, all African countries fall short of the global average hospital bed-to-population ratio of 2.7 beds per 1,000 people. In Nigeria for instance, it is 0.9 beds per 1,000 people 
[9] Literacy rates in African countries are estimated at roughly 70%, according to the African Union data. This, however, lags behind the world average of 90%
[10] No African nation is on the list of countries with more than 5bn passenger-kilometres (pkm) travelled per year
As you can see, our biggest problem as a continent is simply that we are not productive enough. An eternal consumer is forever going to live in penury! 

We Africans like to hide behind the excuse of bad leadership but all 55 nations cannot have bad leaders! As a people we produce raw materials, sell them on and then buy them back at 200% mark-up.

With that kind of arrangement we will always be poor. Our first step should be: “Anything we do not produce, we do not need!”