Kenyans Have No Idea What Leadership Is All About, Hence The Clowns We Elect As Politicians And We Keep On Suffering

I am of the opinion that we as Africans have the solutions to everything that ails us. We lack the right leadership to achieve this. We have picked western behavior and cultures that have created a serious conflict within ourselves.

Our moral compass is broken and the worst of the worst are our leaders, yet we cry every day that we are dying. Let me ask a question; if you pick a hyena to guard your sheep, will you have any left at the end of the day?

I believe our forefathers had the wisdom and the knowledge of what true leadership was and is all about. If we pause and read and look back into history, we will see nuggets of wisdom in idioms, sayings, and proverbs that we tend to ignore because we believe we are modern people who have no idea who we are.

True leadership is measured by the breath, pith, and substance of the sayings and proverbs that our forefathers left us with because it is in them that we find meaning, purpose, and direction of what we should do, what we should look for and what we should fight for.

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African proverbs are often used to impart wisdom and provide guidance on various aspects of life, including leadership. Here are some of the top African proverbs related to leadership: Proverbs that I have used to gauge and judge the current crop of elected leaders in Kenya.

1. “A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.”; we all know which leaders are these. They think they are the bosses yet we are the ones that elected and put them there. Now they are eating and vomiting in our faces, daring us to do anything.
2. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”; it is like we elected the most greedy and lazy lot in thinking because suddenly we are alone and cannot seem to find our leaders to share our problems and potential solutions.
3. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”; We have leaders who are constantly crying and lamenting, you would think they are not elected at all. You can name names.
4. “A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”; we have no leader who espouses this character or do we?
5. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”; We are reminded every day who they are, what portfolios they hold and worst of all, they remind us that we never voted for them but they managed anyway. Who will save us?
6. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”; I think the last politician in Kenya who knew the way forward for Kenya’s prosperity was the Late President Kibaki. The current lot seems to be out of depth. Am I lying?
7. “A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”; Can we say this is what KK is doing for us?