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African leaders are dictators, blatantly rejecting the rules of democracy and tolerance simply to keep the power in their hands; their regimes are based on the force, as the expression of a dominant local community that, once grabbed the power, imposes it to the other ethnic groups of the Country.
This is the first treat for the unity and stability of African Countries, if we simply remember the genocide performed in the little Rwanda by extremists of the Hutu community against the Tutsi with the concrete help of the government, just controlled by the Hutu, in 1995, or the precarious situation in Nigeria, due to the frictions between the Islamic North and the Christian/Animist South.

The goal of Rwandan regime was to eliminate a community that, although a minority in the Country, had ruled the power since the Belgian colonial age until the year before.
The Belgians, in fact, had always favoured the Tutsi against the Hutu, creating more and more tension and hate between the two communities, until the final nightmare.

Moreover, also the borders of all African Countries are wrong and artificial because drawn on the maps by the dirty colonial policy of the European Countries that had ruled the whole Africa.

When, between 1950 and 1980, all the African Countries become independent, new local dictators were financed and supported by the former European powers to be docile tools in their hands to keep on controlling the precious mineral resources (gold, uranium, important metals for industry, diamonds and other precious gems) and farming products, performed with an intensive agriculture at the place of local and small-scale cultivations, the fittest to the African conditions of soil, climate and parasites.

All these raw matters were and are paid very little to the Countries that produce them and to their workers, either farmers, miners or other, but the final products (made only by Western industry) are sold on the Western global markets at 10, 100 times the price paid to the Africans.

The incomes of this production with scarce added value are swallowed by the widespread corruption of local piranhas-governments whose leaders export their robberies abroad in foreign banks and tax-free paradises, as the past Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko massively did, but they don't care to invest at least part of this money in necessary social structures, services, roads and to encourage local industry and farming given that, in Africa, industry is still scarcely developed

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