The act by South African court to bar Sudan’s president Omar El Bashir drew the attention of the world as it sparked criticism from his diehards, although it was justice served at its best.
From time immemorial African leadership has failed to live up to the hopes and desires of African people leading to unrelenting woes that has haunted the continent and derailed realization of millennium goals.
Given that president Bashir is required by the International Criminal Court for acts against humanity, it would have been good if he complied with ICC while it was still honorable to do so.
African Union has earlier indicated its ability to form an African court. However many questions arise. If some leaders can fail to honor an International Criminal Court what of an African court. Will justice that many are clamoring for be executed or inequity and corruption will mar the whole thing?
Who will liberate Africans? Who will be the champions of change?
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Justice for the victims of Darfur should be served. The tragedy of the African continent is where justice is only for a few well-endowed individuals while the common citizens are denied justice and instead oppressed.
There have been a crop of activists in many African states. Day by day they throng streets crying for justice, equity and freedom of expression. But our totalitarian regimes have silenced them. This is a manifestation that African leadership has failed in addressing the key issues Africans were fighting for during colonial era. Then where will justice get its way into our continent?
It is just a few weeks after there was a coup in Burundi although it was botched. While the international community has urged the incumbent President Pier Nkurunzinza not to vie for presidency, he declines to bolt out of the race. Talk of Rwanda where president Kagame is in plans to amend the constitution in order to vie for presidency again. Why can’t African leaders pave way for the youth to lead?
A renowned academician Patrick Lumumba once said that African leaders often say that youth are tomorrow’s leaders and they have ensured that that tomorrow never comes.
As the chants of democracy rent the air, African leadership should actualize it. Although ICC has been criticized for its efforts to bring justice to the less fortunate in the African continent, it may be the only hope, chance and the means to liberate Africans fully from the york of injustice, indiscrimination and bring peace to African continent.
To this end African countries will cease to be third world countries once democracy is actualized, freedom of expression and justice be served to all. This will be a cure to our unrelenting political instability, poverty and deadly calamities that often hit our countries.
