"...some began to abuse their flats for personal profit..."

Oh, boy. Yet of course you aren't "abusing" anything with that AirBnB of yours, are you Dr Lutz? 

It seems to me, many activists within and without government only want to help insofar as their beneficiaries remain, in some sense, their wards in perpetuity. They should look in the mirror. Those patriarchal urges that bring them down to poor old Africa in the first place are not expressions of unadulterated Good. 

It's also impossible to ignore the fact that the bureaucrat delays activists complain about can often be attributed to the sort of legislation those very activists demand. Set government up to fail, then look good in comparison. 

It is possible that we are "over-activisted" down here.