The Post-Colonial State and The Nexus Between Leadership and Poverty

Abstract

Leadership and Poverty have been identified as amongst the plagues hunting post-colonial African states. Leadership and poverty are central to a number of challenges confronting nation-building efforts in the post-colonial era. This paper draws a connexion between Leadership and Poverty and calls on civil society to close ranks with the working class as the only panacea to checkmate leadership inertia in post-colonial Africa.

Keywords: Crisis of Leadership, Poverty, Post-colonial African State, Nation-building, Neo-colonial Forces, Civil Society