Analysts agree: Leadership in government of African Countries is sorely lacking!

That's because as US diplomats often complain: the institutions of society aren't yet capable and functioning to produce them!  

I was just at an online presentation of what's lacking in Iraqi society to organize a well-functioning society, including its government.

Ready for this?  An organized citizenry.  They need organizations in the training and profession conduct of trained people--doctors, lawyers, librarians, university professors and trainers in graduate programs, labor groups, but also, labor unions, technological departments; and right away, local community colleges in the major cities.  As my US government says so aptly, "Government is an add-on to its social organization.  You need the professional institutions in place, first.  And in a democracy, the instruments of its establishment are the election ballot box and the votes of the citizens."

First and foremost among institutions is a professional military, independent of any political organization, for security and control purposes; but to also enable individual liberties and self-expression without suppression.  That is in other words, the individual must be able to express himself freely in a free society without fear of reprisal!

Only then can one truly hope governmental leaders will seek justice.  And, clearly about African governments, there's widespread complaint regarding their leaderships' training and professionalism, possibly, because of the colonial relationships, the country may have established with its European sponsor for so long even to this day.

 Or, maybe they're just autocrats, even dictators; and they'll assert control over their military, thankyou!