Africa faces a crisis of leadership and governance, owing to a dysfunctional ethos. If Africans want to change this, they cannot spare themselves a collective debate about their elites’ complicity in widespread impoverishment.
但真相是无法被掩盖的。非洲正面临着领导和治理方面的危机，而这种危机则来自于一种导致政府机能失调的精神特质。如果非洲人试图改变这一点的话，他们就必须展开集体反思：在这场大规模贫困中，那些本土精英们究竟负有何种程度的合谋责任。