Sometimes ago, I read a
write-up, where it was written that Nigerian youths are mere whatsApp group
Administrators, while their oversea counterparts are very innovative. This I
think says a lot about leadership in African youths.
The writer might not be
totally right, but there is an element of truth in the write-up.
African youths seem to
know how to criticize more than any other thing. Try to visit a vendor on a
Monday morning and see how jobless youths speak so ineloquently grandiloquent
when they criticize the leaders, yet get angry at the slightest provocation.
Does a good leader get angry like that? That mean they criticize what they
can’t do.
It is relatively easy
to cast aspersions on the leaders, but would you have done better if you get
there?
Talking about being a
whatsApp group administrator, I have seen whatsApp groups, many of which the
participants are less than 80, that have ceased to function because the owners
can’t just manage people or get them to follow the right cause. But these set of
people will also come out and point faulty fingers at incapable leaders. It is
simple, if you can’t manage a whatsApp group successfully, you are not a
leader.