Africa needs to shift from resource curse which have marked it for so long to a resource blessing. This requires a fundamental change in the attitudes of Africa’s leadership, which in the past only looked at short-term gains through extraction while being in power and to hell with rest, ignoring the long term benefits the country could have drawn from its resources not only for a few but for the many including one’s own offspring. The signing of quick and opaque deals to secure immediate cashflows at the expense of the long term benefit of the nation should be abandoned by the leaders of Africa. They should transform themselves from landlords of their soil to becoming strategic architects of the industrial future of their........

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