The 'cancer from within we need to fix' in Africa.

Kofi Annan asserts to NewsWeek that this 'cancer' is the lack of a constitutional structure within Governments in Africa that distributes power evenly, and so governments that fail to let people of different ethnic groups [as in the case of Kenya] " feel that the cloth of government is stretched to cover everybody, that nobody is left out or discriminated against in terms of economic well-being and resources, access to money and power". Too true.

Peace and sustained prosperity could only be a possibility when there arises among African leaders, an earnest committment to honest leadership. A committment to honest leadership immediately appreciates the dangers inherent in creating a climate of distrust among different ethnic groups.

Honest leadership would recorgnise that faced with the situation of having to deal with different ethnic groups, equitable disribution of wealth and resources is perhaps the only sure way to unity, sustained prosperity, and ultimately peace.