SOCIAL WELFARE IN THE AFRICAN STATES: THE REASONS BEHIND AN ENDURING COUNTER-PERFORMANCE

The article presents the reasons of low level of social welfare in the African states, in the synthetic way. The author is wondering how the stagnation of social welfare in Africa is possible when we consider the continent's economic potentialities, its human resources, the international aid to development, and the fact that Africans are self-governed. The main thesis is, according to some other researchers, that 'the postcolonial African state probably is the most phantomatic political organization of society in the history of the second half of the 20th century'. The absence of a real state capable of ensuring social development through the promotion of key sectors like Health, Education, Infrastructure can be accounted for by the waste, nepotism, servile imitation, corruption and spoliation in the African leaders management. The text also shows the problematic factors for Black Africa such as: difficult climate, degradation of the soil and the fact that the present states have been based on former empires with a hierarchical structure with pieces of societies having a lineage structure. This leads us to the conclusion that African leaders have no clearly defined project of modern African society.