Opinion
Stifling politicism sucks the life out of African societies
Countries where politics is prized at the expense of education and merit risk economic stagnation and frenzied corruption as the state's resources shrink
06 September 2020 - 00:01
Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister of Ghana - the first African country to attain independence - said: "Seek ye first the political kingdom and all else shall be added unto you."
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