Got below forward..... have not verified the ages and aware that these are only a handful of the leaders, but still interesting.

Aren't leaders supposed to grow wiser with age ?
Assuming they were wise when first elected ..


AFRICAN LEADERS
Abdoulaye Wade ( Senegal )- age 83
Hosni Mubarak ( Egypt ) - age 82
Robert Mugabe ( Zimbabwe ) - age 86
Hifikepunye Pohamba ( Namibia ) - age 74
Rupiah Banda ( Zambia ) - age 73
Mwai Kibaki ( Kenya ) - age 71
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ( Liberia ) - age 75
Colonel Gaddafi ( Libya ) - age 68
Jacob Zuma ( South Africa ) - age 68
Bingu wa Mutharika (Malawi) - age 76
John Evans Atta-Mills (Ghana) - age 67

Average Age: =======================>76 years

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THE WESTERN WORLD

Barrack Obama ( USA ) - age 48
David Cameron ( UK ) - age 43
Dimitri Medvedev ( Russia ) - age 45
Stephen Harper ( Canada ) - age 51
Julia Gillard ( Australia ) - age 49
Nicolas Sarkozy ( France ) - age 55
Luis Zapatero ( Spain ) - age 49
Jose Socrates ( Portugal ) - age 53
Angela Merkel ( Germany ) - age 56
Herman Van Rompuy ( Belgium ) - age 62

Average Age: ====================> 51 years

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DIFFERENCE: ====================> 25 years

Capri, what you forgot to add is the average age of the population. In the western world the average age of the population is above 45; in Africa the average age of the population is below 25.

So the generation gap in Africa between the leaders and the citizens is immense.

Leadership has nothing absolutely to do with age.One may be a born leader meaning the traits may be visible quite early in life or a made leader..meaning the traits may show up later in life.remember people like Qaddafi became president at 29yrs and Mubarak at around 50,even Moi became presso during his 50s....Lesson is STOP aping the west.look for a good leader with merit forget the age!!

The FUTURE of the world is Africa

The United Nations children's fund is drawing attention to Africa's population boom. A new report says by the end of the century, four out of ten of the world's people worldwide will be African. While most developed countries populations are poised to shrink in coming decades, Africa’s will be expanding by a factor of 5.18 – significantly faster than Asia at 3.7.

Researchers say it could either lead to prosperity or further strain on economies

http://www.washingtonpos...f-the-earth-in-9-charts/

this is how we have been lied to....
We are here ------------------------------> the 'developed world' is here

so like witchcraft we are to do certain things that we see the developed world is doing now and we think that if we applied those things to our context like magic we will move from where we are to where they are. It's synonymous to a guy who lives in Kibich/Mathare/Ungwaro looking at a dude in Karen and saying.. the guy in Karen wines and dines in Tamarind and Carnivore, he wears italian suits, he drives model X of a car.... If I could do those thing - I would automatically become like them. So this is what has happened, We copy stuff - the west does democracy - let's do democracy, the west has all these rights - let's add all these rights, the west does A,B,C and D - let's do all these things and if we mimic them real good viola we shall be where they are in a couple of years. The problem with this way of thinking is that it's like Johnny Rodrigues' Kiini Macho.... put some flour here, some balloons here and some magic powder here and say "rambo rambo bum! bum!". We never really ask ourselves - why are the Tigers doing so well? Why is Rwanda bouncing back so fast? Hizi vitu ni fundamentals... hard and smart work at a local level - attitude change by people and if everyone does well the bigger picture paints itself. Waiting for 'leaders' to change kenya is the highest level of irresponsibility that can exist! let's do an exercise every 5 years where everyone puts a checkmark next to a name on a piece of paper and then drop it into a magic box and shout "rambo rambo bum! bum!" - we shall catchup with the rest of the world.
I once read a post on facebook sometime early this year - the lady says...


by the way isn't the same thing prevalent in our religious beliefs and things like pyramid schemes and quailamid schemes (kwanza hizo vitu zilienda wapi?). We are eager to catch up and so any promise of us jumping the queue is rapidly taken.