DRPAM007
Sir you raise so many points in your post.
Any thoughts why, Africa is notorious for escalating and prolonged regional conflicts involving small/medium arms while no country in Africa manufactures those arms.
Quite a few actually.
Africa is notorious for prolonged conflicts due to an uneducated and semi literate electorate, electing woefully inept people into government, who in turn have ruined their countries through a string of ill informed, poor and arrogant actions and decisions.
The post colonial history of Africa has proved that African culture and democracy are incompatible.
Your second point here,
No sane capitalist businessman, would invest money in an arms/munitions production venture ( or any financial business venture)in a country where his investment was liable to be nationalised, commandered or where he would be forced to ceed half his business to the presidents nephew/auntie/brother/goldfish etc.
The reason why Africa produces so little is due to the governments enforcing ruling party rhetoric and socialist economic experiments over and above sound and historically proven, capitalist economic principles.
African governments need to leave economics alone and leave it to the capitalists who will build the african economies quite well all on their own.
One of the biggest stumbling blocks in this regard is the inability of Africans to accept blame for anything that they have done wrong, ( this is also an Arabic cultural trait), this is a cultural thing which I feel is a major issue as one cannot fix a problem if one doesnt acknowlege its existance and cause in the first place.
Robert Mugabe seriously does not think that the current problems in Zimbabwe are his fault at all, a classic example of african denial. More alarmingly is that other african leaders are reluctant to critisize him, a further example of this.
How do you address to the African aviation question?
You dont!
You need competant civil servants and government in place first , then these problems will solve themselves.
Just my 2 cents worth...