Africa's Leaders Must Respect Masses

African leaders, and politicians generally, probably have a high estimate of themselves. It is unconscionable that the masses of this huge continent can think about their future without factoring them into the scheme? It never occurs to most that this is actually what happens when children dream before politics tampers with their lives. In our innocence, we hope for life as doctors, lawyers, big houses, nice cars and cushy jobs and nowhere does a politician come into the equation when we build these castles? It is that independence of mind that so often gets displayed when we go to the polls. We think and make choices we want, never mind the bombardment of political messages that precede our trips to voting stations. It becomes extremely mind-boggling if a person thinks that they make more sense than all of us when we choose not to elect them to lead us. When one says that I dispute results of polls, they are actually saying that the dispute is between millions of minds versus his or her brain? When you say that then you betray your vanity, your overgrown sense of self-importance and you unconsciously force those who you would have persuaded in future to despise you. You squander goodwill. That is not political and tactless. This is the reason that revolutionaries will always stay head above shoulders compared to politicians.